One of my main desires on this journey of mine, was to scuba dive and see something spectacular. I can now cross that off my list. 
Diving in Lake Tahoe, Nevada / California you get to see clear water, sandy bottom and a few cool rock formations. Here, diving in Okinawa and the surrounding islands you see a plethora of coral and colorful fish, beats Tahoe by a long shot. Also, the water, was a nice 74 degrees.
Yesterday I rode Ron’s bike to “Reef Encounters International”, about 20 min away. From there I rode with the dive masters and one other customer to the harbor with all the scuba gear.
It was my first trip on a dive boat, the boat looked like this…
We rode about 45 min out to a chain of islands called the Keramas.
Where we saw, as you’d expect, beautiful crystal clear waters, and majestic island views. It was amazing!
(see, I told you it was amazing)
I dove all three dives that day. The first was at a spot called Icuroshima-S. Here I got to experience up close, colorful fish, coral, and a sea snake making its way into the sand. The water was amazingly clear.
(between dives)
The second dive, was a wreck dive called Dragon Lady. Dragon Lady is the name of an old US military aircraft either sunk or wrecked off the coast of one of the islands. Because it took too long for my ears to equalize, I did not have enough time to see the entire thing, I only got a glimpse of an airplane hull, and some jagged metal. The dive was still worth it, because I did get to see more coral and all the life that surrounds it. Also, because the wreck was fairly deep, I did get to experience floating, neutrally buoyant at roughly 35 feet with nothing but blue, in every direction for as far as I could see.
The third dive was by far the most memorable. We went to another spot called Tamana-Farm. This is where I got to see a sea turtle swimming along the coral, a sting ray, which seemed to be racing away from us, and an eel poking its head out of the coral eying all of us very carefully as we drifted by.The other types of fish I saw… wellI certainly can’t name them all, but I did see several angel fish, they were gorgeous, also I did see a clown fish or two living in an anemone. They were very intrigued by our passing, they often came out to look at us which was very cool. I saw several schools of fish doin their thing, swimming through them was fun, watching them either stick together, or swim in all separate direcitons.
We had a wonderful ride back on the somewhat choppy sea, sitting on the second story area of the bow with the wind in my hair, I thought to myself, I could certainly get used to this…
By far the best diving experience I have had.
My view on the ride back…
Me and the Japanese dive instructor, who while underwater threw a sea cucumber at me… startled me a bit, but she laughed a lot. So, later i threw her off the boat. I quickly joined though, because the water was too inviting not to go in.
