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Today, we had great last dives in Inanbishi.
Saw some interesting nudibranchs, cuttlefish, and of course, anemonefish.

It’s the time of the year when cuttlefish start mating and lay eggs.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi
3. Inanbishi

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 17C (62.6F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

Also, we started to see a bunch of nudibranchs now.
This one on the picture is the kind that we had never seen before here.
Please tell us if you know the name!

Alright, here is a nice photo from our dive boat, which Akira took.
Beautiful sunset on the last day of 2009!

Everyone, have a nice new year’s holidays!

Miho

Hi everyone,

We went diving gooood dive sites today again.
The sun came out, which made our swim-thru dives nice.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Chiibishi Islands and Okinawa Main Island
1. Kamiyama Labyrinth (Chiibishi)
2. Kamiyama Labyrinth (Chiibishi)
3. Mizugama Red Marker (Kadena North)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 24C (75.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

We saw sharks, went through many swim-thrus, and got to the place where Akira found a Japanese Pigmy Seahorse last time he was there.
Yes, he found it again. But last time he saw it, it was white…. is it a different one? or did it change color? Hmmm…

After lunch we enjoyed diving the Red Marker, near our port.
Panda Anemonefish were doing still alright over there.

Miho

Okinawa Main Island has many dive sites….

Even in this weather with strong wind from north, we have our favorite spots available for diving!

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa West Coast
1. Inanbishi (Okinawa)
2. Inanbishi (Okinawa)
3. Red Marker – Kadena North (Okinawa)
4. Inanbishi (Okinawa)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Surge, Waves
Air: 17C (62.6F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

From the afternoon, we had Jan from Michigan trying his first dive in Okinawa with his brand-new camera.
Many pictures turned out good!
We saw a huge octopus at the Red Marker!

At the Inanbishi, we spent some time taking pictures of anemone fish.
We have Clerk’s Anemonefish, Tomato Anemonefish, Pink Anemonefish, Crown Anemonefish (Nemo), and this cute family of White-backed Anemonefish (picture on the left, above).

Also, we found my favorite friend, giant frogfish taking a walk on the sand.

Miho

We went all the way to the south of Tokashiki Island in the Keramas.

Today, we had a student from Open Water Certification Course.
He is very lucky to have the good visibility water in the Keramas for his first dives in his life.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands and Chiibishi
1. Muchizuni In-Reef (Tokashiki)
2. Muchizuni Out-Reef (Tokashiki)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama)

Objective: Open Water Dives 1.2.3
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

We checked out a bunch of anemone fish in the in-reef of Muchizuni, enjoyed the drop-off of the outer reef. Then, after lunch, we moved back to Chiibishi area for another dive in the Labyrinth.

We said hi to our friend, the white tip reef shark there again.

Today, we went diving with whale sharks.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa West Coast
1. Whale Shark Diving (Yomitan)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

The visibility was very good today – our honeymoon couple enjoyed swimming with the whale sharks and taking pictures of them. They are planning to go driving South today. Have a nice honey moon!

Miho

Today we had two teams, one going to the Kerama Island with our boat and the other one for Onna area.
It was very good condition again, with south wind, perfect for my favorite dive sites around the Kuroshima Island.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Hija Bay (Kuroshima North)

Onna Boat Team
1. Blue Cave (Maeda)
2. Bat Fish Buoy (Maeda)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 20C (68F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

During the dives in Onna, Akira found a huge school of bat fish. Many many of them.

We found a boxer crab (above left) on the rock – very tiny one, about 5-8mm.
After looking at small stuff, we found a huge frogfish at the place where he always hang out.

Miho

Merry Christmas, everybody!

It was a beautiful day for diving in the Kerama Islands.
On the way to the Keramas, we saw humpback whales for the first time for this winter.

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima North
2. Kuromaezaki (Zamami Island)
3. Inanbishi (Okinawa)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 23C (73.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

We had a family trying snorkeling and discover scuba diving for the first time. At first, they were planning to just snorkel around, then, they got fascinated too much by the good visibility of the water in the Keramas. They decided to try diving into it!

Also, we had a 14 years old diver. He earned 50 dives already at his age- next time, maybe trying more specialty courses.
We saw turtles, sharks, and whales – goooood day of diving!!

Miho

We went diving the Red Beach again today.

We spent long time taking good photos of some decoration crabs, tiny shrimps on sea pens, and sea fan crabs.

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Okinawa Main Island
1. Red Beach
2. Red Beach

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 16C (60.8F)

Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

There are many kinds of interesting crabs and shrimps, as well as gobies. Some of them could be very rare ones or even not recognized ones.

Good dives again!

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Okinawa Main Island
1. Red Beach
2. Red Beach

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 16C (60.8F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

Due to the strong wind and swell　from North, we decided to go East, to the Kin Town to dive the Red Beach.

It was very flat over there and the visibility was better than we thought. We always find interesting creatures here.

Today, we found goast pipe fish, sponge crabs, lots of gobies, and Taiwanese barracudas.

It was rainy today….

We had a girl trying scuba diving for the first time.
She used to bodyboard a lot, so it was easy to get her in the water.

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi

Objective: Discover Scuba Diving
Weather: Choppy
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

Her comment was interesting-
She said that the water was too clear and it scared her!

We saw many kinds of anemone fish, nudibranchs, and swam around the rich soft coral reef.