Skipping Ahead

We did visit the Japanese Naval Underground Headquarters this weekend, and I’ll probably come back to that but it feels too somber for tonight, so I’m skipping over that for now and giving you some of our beach pictures from today instead.

First, this one for Holly and Drew: it’s the Toyota Noah!

We got out to White Beach this afternoon, a new beach for us.  We arrived at low tide and you could wade (ankle deep for Jake and I) out to these mini-islands to explore!

We found funky sea anemones,

spiny sea urchins,

spectacular seashells (this one was at least six inches long but, unfortunately for me, it was occupied),

lots of crabs,

tide pools full of . . .

electric blue fish,

  and a couple of pretty cool caves.  We also met a Filipina lady who was collecting seaweed for her dinner and got a quick lesson in how to choose the tastiest bunches!

Check out the fabulous new swimsuit I found—I was pretty excited about it!

They even had a small park for Logan to play at!  (The beach is on a Navy base on the Pacific side of the island, and has a camping area and cabins to rent as well.)

He played so hard, he completely konked out on the ride home.

And that was our day in a nutshell, or, more appropriately, in a seashell!  Hope yours was equally good.