Fish..in Ishigaki, Okinawa.
and a few things that aren't fish too.
A special post by Baby Bear
🤿 we started the day snorkeling at Yonehara beach. It was waaaaaaaaay too shallow for comfort. 🙁 i can barely swim properly. But however, we still managed to see lots of fish! 🐠 There were big ones, small ones, and medium ones. We spotted what looked like picasso triggerfishes, and i also found a black one that looked like it is covered in bits of Kanazawa gold leaf 🪙🌿.
Then we went and ate lunch. 🍽️ After we ate lunch, we went to Kabira bay, even though you couldn't go snorkeling there.
We walked around for a bit, got hot ☀️, and decided to try the big pile of flavored shaved ice that they sell everywhere here. 🍧 We first went to a cafe that Mama Bear had marked on the map. Unfortunately, they ran out of food 🚫, so we went and checked out the pearl shop named the Ryukyu pearl head office.
Turns out they actually grow the pearls from the oysters by sticking a clam “pearl” inside! When we were done learning about pearls and clams here, we walked back to the beach. When we walked off the beach and onto the street, the first place we saw happened to have a sign that said “ice” in Japanese, so we walked over there. When we were walking the short walk to the shop, Mama Bear noticed a pinkish-yellow fish on the ground. When she told me that it was there, I took the same path as her to go see it. Surprisingly, It turned out to be a real fish! It felt very odd, to see a full, fat, uninjured real fish 🐟 just lying there under the tree near what turned out to be a soba restaurant. After deciding that we should get the shaved ice at another place, we continued walking down the street. Then we came to a Blue Seal ice cream place, and since it was too hot for mama bear to walk much farther, we just got brown sugar (Mama bear’s choice), coconut 🥥 and pineapple🍍(Baby bear’s), and salt cookie 🧂🍪(in which I can’t taste the salt) (Papa bear’s) flavored ice creams there. 🍨 I really liked the coconut pineapple and the salt cookie ice creams, but I didn't really like the brown sugar one. After we finished eating, we decided to go see a lone mangrove that Mama Bear had found on the map. When we arrived, however, the mangrove wasn't in the water! When Mama Bear didn't want to get out of the air-conditioned car, Papa Bear hopped out to take a quick photo instead.
Then, we drove to a spot with a pokémon manhole cover (all of the pokémon manhole covers will be mentioned in Mama Bear’s manhole cover post). The pokémon on the manhole cover just happened to be a lot of manta ray pokémons like the ones at Kagoshima aquarium (just without the pokémon part)!
Finally, we drove home, happy with the fish sighting of today.