Yomitan, as a district of Okinawa, is distant enough from the madding crowds of Naha and the tourist enclave of Chatan, but rural enough to give a sense of country living.
There are times when so enraged I become at the abject destruction of all things natural that all I can do is scream my profound disgust. So cover your ears kids, because I have now been driven over the edge!
There are no guarantees that my son, Joshua, will be able to strap on SCUBA tanks and plop into the crystal clear waters of tropical Micronesian reef channels,
So broken down now are plastics that in some locations it has been said that they hang in the air and are being breathed by man. Maybe now that the ultimate predator on Earth may start to suffer could initiate a change in plastic waste management? Who knows?
Could I be ‘One of Eight’? It seems wild to think that eight people will soon be picked to join, train and mentally prepare with Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, aka MZ, who aims in 2023 to become the first Space Tourists in history.
Share Iriomote Jungle Adventures, just the name of the trip alone was tantalizing my imagination. Our location, dominated by the sounds of falling water, was akin to being enveloped in a verdant wrap of sub-tropical jungle. I’d made the journey to the island of Iriomote in the far flung South-West confines of Okinawa prefecture to lead, and introduce, a group of five budding landscape and wildlife photographers from the Okinawa Photographic and Video Community to the majestic wonders of the […]