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Hi everyone,

Since the wind calmed down alot, we went out for the Kerama Island dive tour.
Here are some photos of turtles and sharks, by Naoji.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Tamana Farm
2. Kamigu
3. Chishi

Objective: Boat Dives
Weather: South West Wind
Air: 30C (86F)
Water: 28C (82F)
Visibility: 30m + (100ft)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

Hi everyone,

It’s Miho here – I have been sick for a while, but think I’m recovering.
Here are the pictures from our dives at the Kerama Islands and Kamiyama Labyrinth.

We saw many many sharks today – and it’s the season for fish to mate and hatch eggs! We saw a school of Surgeonfish mating in a big school.

It was a very nice sunny day!
We dove Labyrinth for caves and swimthrus. It’s so much fun!

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
The Kerama Islands & Chiibishi
(see our Kerama Dive Site Map)

1. Paradiso (Maejima)
2. Kuroshima South (Kuroshima)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama Island)

Objective: Boat fun dives
Weather: Mild North Wind
Air: 28C (82.4F)
Water: 26C (79F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm / 5mm one piece

We had very good dives all around the Kuroshima Island today.
Kuroshima is my favorite! It was a very hot day with sun shining, wind from south as well.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
Kerama Islands

1. Kuroshima East (Kuroshima)
2. Twin Rocks (Kuroshima )
3. Hija Bay (Kuroshima)

Objective: Boat fun dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 29C (84F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

We enjoyed exploring our new dive site (Kuroshima East) with some caves.
And of course, Twin Rocks and Hija Bay are always our favorite!

Fairy Basselets, Purple Queens, and coutless damsel fish were hanging out on the hard/soft coral reef.
We did not forget to check out white tip reef shark’s nest and lion fish cave.

It so much fun to peek into the hard coral reef at Hija Bay for blenny, crabs, and scorpion fish.
Fire Dart Fish was Gail’s favorite!

Kerama Island Day Trip

Hello everyone, it’s Miho here

Today, me and Akira took some good divers to the Keramas.
I had Steve and Harriet from Discovery Divers Tokyo.
We had mild north wind, but with the sun coming out, it turned to be a very nice day.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**

Kerama Islands

1. Kuroshima South (Kuroshima)
2. Toma West (Zamami Island)
3. Ariga Cable (Tokashiki Island)

Objective: Boat fun dives
Weather: Mild North Wind
Air: 26C (79F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

We enjoyed watching many many fish at the Kuroshima South – there were thousands of damsel fish, sergeant fish, and fusiliers today. We swam out to the big Sea Fan place as well. At the end of the dive, we found a shark under a table coral.

Toma was nice as always, we swam around quite a bit – from Toma West to all the way around Toma. Enjoyed purple queens, blue chromis, many kinds of anemone fish.
The visibility at Ariga Cable was great!
Akira’s team had a drift dive over there.

Steve, Harriet, thank you for coming out diving with us! We enjoyed hanging out with you so much!
We are looking forward to seeing and diving with other members from your family as well!

Miho

hi everyone

this is miho here
we had very good dives in the keramas today

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info**
kerama islands

1. Sand triangle (gishippu island)
2 hija bay (kuroshima)
3. kuroshima north (kuroshima)

Objective: boat fun dives
Weather: South Wind
Air: 28C (82F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 3mm – 5mm one piece + hood

today we had divers from Rumania! very cute couple
We had fun diving the very different dive sites in Keramas!

Hi it’s Miho here,

Today, we had good dives in the Kerama Islands again.

We had a quite bit of varity of dive team today.
-Noboru – Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Course
-Miho – English speaking dive team
-Akira – Japanese dive team

Today’s divers were all men! (well, except for me)

We saw turtles, some teams saw sharks… Akira spotted some cuttlefish eggs with their babies growing in there.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Kerama Islands

1. Kuromaezaki (Zamami)
2. Toma (Zamami)
3. Ariga Cable (Tokashiki)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Mild West Wind
Air: 22C (71.6F)
Water: 24C (75.2F)
Visibility: 30m (100ft.)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

Hi there,

Today, we saw specutaclar underwater nature scenes.
We started off of encountering some cuttlefish laying eggs.
They did not go away from us taking pictures, so I started wondering why – then they started laying eggs!

Then, we spotted some sharks and morray eels, and a huge turtle at Maejima.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Kerama Islands & Okinawa West Coast

1. Kuroshima South (Kerama)
2. Paraiso (Maejima)
3. Marina 225 (Okinawa West Coast)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Mild North Wind
Air: 22C (71.6F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Visibility: 29(66 ft.)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

The water in the two dive spots we dove today was fantastic.
The visibility was over 30m (100ft.), with ths sun shining, it was crystal clear.

For the last dive, we enjoyed beautiful reef of soft coral and lots of fish.

Good day of diving!

Miho

Hi everyone,

Today, we enjoyed whale shark diving, and some goood dives at the Zampa point.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Okinawa West Coast

1. Whale Shark Dive
2. Nagahama (Okinawa)
3. Kori Zampa

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Mild North Wind
Air: 22C (71.6F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Visibility: 25m (82ft.)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

Our first dive today was whale shark dive, and we headed to Nagahama for some coral and shrimp goby photo diving.
The third dive of today was at Kori Zampa – the coast line around Cape Zampa formed spectaclar underwater landscape.
Please take a look at the picture above. Isn’t it beautiful?

We also spotted many many kinds of nudibranchs today.
The picture on the right is a very rare one.

The summer is around the corner in Okinawa!

Miho

Hi it’s Miho here.

Today was the second day of diving with Steve shooting photos.
I had Steve and Hiroko in my dive team – enjoying all around the dive spots at Kuroshima North Bay. My favorite dive sites!

The best shot today was by Steve!
It’s a Wobbegon Shark or Flinge Shark that he spotted. This kind is a rare one in Okinawa.

***Today’s Okinawa Dive Site Info***
Kerama Islands

1. Twin Rocks (Kuroshima Island)
2. Hija Bay (Kuroshima Island)
3. Kadena Fish House (Okinawa Main Island)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Mild South Wind
Air: 26C (79F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Visibility: 25m (82ft.)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

We swam around the Twin Rocks – it was wonderful!
There weren’t currents, which made our dive easy. Many many fish! Fusiliers, Orange Basslets, Purple Queens, Schooling Banner Fish, Butterfly Fish… There wre countless fish swimming around.

We saw two cuttle fish probably mating, and their eggs at Hija Bay.
Lots of stuff to take pictures here… Yellow Spotted Scorpion Fish and Coral Crabs are hiding in the coral called Pocillopora damicornis.

Today, we took our boat out to the Kerama Islands!

Today’s divers were all girls!
We explored various dive spots that gives you different tastes each dives!

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands

1. Hija Bay (Kuroshima Island)
2. Kamigu (Gishippu Island)
3. Tamaruru (Tokashiki Island)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 25C (77F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

We saw some green sea turtles, and even saw a fish eating other fish still having it in its mouth!
That was very interesting!

Miho