Well it’s Sunday. I have another sleep in, much needed. Today I go snorkling with Kumiama-san and Yoshiaki-san again but this time it’s serious! Haha well we have diving knives and hooky things and a spear thing, it’s shell fish hunting time! We paddle out in a kayak and then off we go. I guess we are out there for several hours but I don’t actually know, it’s so fascinating time just slips by. I get a few shell fish including one of the clam like things, called shokuguy here, we only get three of those in total so I reckon that’s good. I had fun following some colourful fish around, they didn’t seem too bothered. I really need to get the all weather case for my camera so I can take some underwater shots. Tonight there was another festival, although this one was at the old folks home and therefore more sedate. Okinawans (and probably Japanese in general) revere their seniors. One okinwan chap explained that the festival banner had been written in gold because their old people were precious like gold, nice. There were food stalls (lots of nice freshly cooked food), drinks and traditional Okinawan dances performed, oh and there were fireworks (hanabi in Japanese – literally meaning flowerfire). We then had a barby with all the shell fish we had gathered and drank and chatted (well attempted to talk) until some silly late time.