Hi everyone, it’s Miho here.
Because of the change of wind direction, we couldn’t go to the Kerama Islands – instead, we enjoyed exploring our original dive sites.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Red Marker (Kadena North)
3. Marina 225 (Kadena) – drift dive
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
We were able to watch many shrimp gobies including ‘White-rayed shrimp goby’ and ‘Black-rayed shrimp goby’ today, because the surge was not very strong. They live in relatively shallow water, here at around 15m deep, so easy to spend some time taking pictures of them.
At the Red Marker, Noboru found a tiny tiny little sea horse mimicking green leaves on the sandy bottom. You need to have very good eyes to even see it!
Then, we moved to our new dive site, Marina 225.
Because of water temperature raising caused by global warming and massive outbreaks of crown-a-thorns happend around the Okinawa ocean this past 10-20 years, it seemed like many reefs were dameged quite a bit around the Okinawa Main Island. However, all the corals here, both soft corals and hard corals are big and healthy. You can observe many varieties as well.
It’s 2m25cm big – it seems like these corals survived through many crisis in this ocean.
Be careful, when you dive there, not to land on anything or kick the corals.
Okinwa Diving Bluefield - Main Website (English)
沖縄ダイビング ブルーフィールド（日本語）
Email: english@bluefi.com
Tel & Fax: +81-98-957-2200
