Birthday weekend up north

In honor of celebrating Betsy's completion of 28 years of life, we spent a lovely weekend on the far northern end of Okinawa. We spent much of the time at Okuma Joint Forces Recreation Facility. There we did such things as SCUBA diving (off a boat, for once), camping (although we never got in our tent, opting instead to try sleeping in the back of our van; if there had been any wind at all, there's a chance that we could have slept thru the raucous noise from young Marines in the campground), biking & hiking. And, of course, eating at the Surfside Restaurant. From there we drove to the northern tip, Cape Hedo-misaki, where we took way too many photos. Then we checked out a hiking park nearby with some very cool rock formations & vegetation. On our way home, we stopped at a roadside beach on the Pacific side & did some snorkelling. Yes, we got a LITTLE sun & a FEW bug bites! ;-)