Our second day in Ishigaki-Jima was rainy and a little chilly. We had planned to take the ferry to Taketomi-Jima but were a little uncertain. The Weather forecast showed the next 2 days would be as bad if not worse so we went for it.
I had imagined another rust bucket trip like before. We walked to the terminal and waited
for our boat. Kaji napped. Our boat arrived.
The boat wasn't new and there was a little rust here and there but there were some powerful engines driving water jets because of the shallow areas.
We started off pretty fast even though we were not past the breakwater yet. I could see spray coming up the window and we were sitting pretty far back.
Soon there was so much spray I couldn't see outside any more! I estimate we were doing about
40 knots or so and I presume we were planning.
There were lots of interesting folks on the boat, mostly Japanese. At least they were Asian looking.
Eriko pointed this couple out to me and using her as cover I snapped a picture of them.
After the short but fast ride we found it was raining pretty good and decided on the glass bottom boat ride. I remember my parents taking me on such a ride when I was quite young and I still am impressed by the memory. This ride was too short, apparently the tide was falling and we would have been stuck on the reef for hours had we stayed.
Here are some photos. See if you can spot 'Nemo'.
It had stopped raining when we returned to the island so we got a map and began to explore.