03/19 Naha Okinawa

Today we decided to explore the north park of Okinawa. After slowlydriving up north via local roads we found the toll expressway and offwe went. The toll was ¥800 but probably saved us 2 hours. The firststop was the Okinawa churaumi aquarium. The highlight here was agigantic tank which had 3 whale sharks. We went on a tour were wecould see above the aquarium which was pretty neat. We proceeded todrive up north to the northern most tip of Okinawa called hedo misaki.Along the way, the scenery was amazing with beaches, blue water and the sky starting to clear up. Medo misaki had large cliffs and crashingwaves, it was very nice but also very windy. We decided to drive backdown to Naha along the scenic/free road. This allowed up to enter arandom hotel and use their beach. The water wasn't too cold so it wasswimmable. I only wadded in but keegan went all out. We had to returnthe car by 630 which came down to the wire due to traffic. We returnedthe car just in the nick of time. We decided to head back to the mainstreet for dinner. We found a place that had taco rice and also hadsome okinawa soba. Taco rice is rice, lettuce, salsa and cheese in aKorean iron bowl, sorts like a Mexican bim-be-bop. After walking themain street for a little longer we retreated to the hostel to get somerest.