Torii Beach

Playing in the sand.
Apprehension.
Fear. (brrr)

Some guys doing what I think is called kite-boarding, I don't remember what he said exactly, before I heard him say it I called it para-surfing. It looks like fun.

Okinawa City Children's Zoo

Its a zoo! And what kind of zoo would it be without large replicas of animals? Don't be fooled though, this park is not sprawling and the animals don't live in nearly this much space. I think its an old zoo that hasn't really been updated but needs it, the animals are all in rather small cages (they have a tiger in a cage the size of the cages along the main entry walk at the Boise zoo). Apparently, there are protesters who at least managed to get some wolves taken from this zoo.
There is a large pond in the park with several species of birds floating around and the apparently required koi living in it.

Ok, this particular picture isn't from the zoo, but they did have goats there.
Inside the zoo there is a large area with an outdoor stage and other attractions for the kids, some requiring an extra fee. Here's Coryn in a scaled down version of the Discovery Center in Boise. It features science type learning games, and some not so sciency things like a dress up room for girls.
There is a petting zoo area which Coryn absolutely loved, he kept running from one animal to the next. These are two large fuzzy bunnies.

Turtles of course.

Kiss the Chick!

ChuraUmi Aquarium

Coryn gazes with wonder at the beautiful and sometimes quite large fish in the three story aquarium, the second largest in the world. Churaumi means 'beautiful ocean' in a combination of chura - okinawan for beautiful and umi - japanese for ocean.
They have a 'petting zoo' of starfish and sea cucumbers, Coryn mostly likes to play with the water.
They have quite the collection of interesting specimen including these garden snakes, wall climbing-air breathing-jumping fish, and others.
The aquarium is so large it is the only one to contain not just one but three whale sharks, many manta rays, and a variety of other fish, as well as three scuba divers who were working on a section of the tank while we were there.

They have other smaller sites too, a manatee house, sea turtle pools, and free dolphin show areas. All around a fun place to visit on this little island.

Coryn's Still Silly

Wearing mom's shoes
Chowin' on a carrot
Watering a plant at daycare... or the table
I have some golf clubs too!

Some Okinawa sights

Well, we've been to a few places so far, this is Zakimi castle ruins. There are several ruins across the island.
This is the ocean at Cape Zanpa where 'the lighthouse' is. (aka: 'you should see the lighthouse' although I'm sure there are more than just one)
We've also been to Southeast Botanical Gardens where some of my 'ooo, whats that?' questions were answered, this Mimosadae was in white and red (its only half open)

This is the hibiscus, which is also called the China rose which I'm assuming is because of its range in color and popularity in gardens. It comes in whites, pinks, reds, yellows, and oranges.