It has been some time since I have used my blog! I left Okinawa 20 days ago. After a "Japanese" mini holiday in Yonibaru, we came back to the apartment and like mechanical people, did the final parts of leaving - visiting Docomo, having the utilities cut off, having the futons taken away, handing in the keys to the real estate agent, handing over the car to its new owner and catching a taxi to the airport! I can still remember watching the Yanibaru kuina wander in its pen in its grand enclosure, hearing kuina calls at night from our hotel near Ada, wandering on the stony beach at Aha and buying food for dinner from the Ada store. I enjoyed the view from the lighthouse down to Ada. You can see the edge of the
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