To all of you who are agonizing as to when to visit Okinawa, let me make a pitch for November. It is cooler, but still in the 20s. The sea is no longer bath-waterish but still delightful for water stuff, both above and below. There are flowers everywhere yet a just perceptible autumness, probably engendered by  the rice harvest.

I go for a ramble. I at last feel well enough to do stuff other than lie on a rancid sleeping mat. You know how it is.

Esso Blue

My Plumeria

My Hibiscus

Great White Egret

Common Snipe

Birdies

What is going on in the UK and US?

Bird with long neck for grazing on high branches

Bird with long legs for running over desert.

Very rare Greater White Fronted Goose

First time I have seen these on the island. Hooray

This is how you dry rice.

Yep, a little constitutional around Okinawa in November is very, very pleasant.