Marc promised the girls we would get some beach time during vacation so yesterday we traveled to Manza Beach on the East China Sea.  It's about a 90 minute bus ride from Naha. During Marc's exchange year, he would visit the public beaches in this area on the weekends with his friends. 

Pictures of our hotel.  There are a lot of water activities (scuba diving, jet ski, snorkeling, evening cruises, etc).  It's early in their busy season and the water is still rather cold so the beaches and pools were pretty empty.

Out our windows we have the greatest view. It was so cool to look out and see a lot of coral and rock, then the next morning it's all water.  

Madeline here, to me Manza Beach was sort of a Hawaii. It was full of flowers and plants and all you could see was clear blue water!

The pool was freezing (in my opinion). Madeline said "It's was warmer than the Duis" so they jumped right in.  They didn't last terribly long before we all moved to the hot tub.

This area has a lot of coral.  We walked along the beach and found an area with lots of little pools. Madeline was fascinated by all the sea life.  Her knowledge of various "creatures" is more extensive than Marc and I realized.  She was readily identifying the sea urchins, sponges, etc.

This was one of two star fish.  Madeline thought they were both dead but Marc and I noticed they weren't completely dried out so she placed them back in the sea - just in case. If you look closely at the picture below you can see two buried clams. We also saw some small crabs running around.  It was at that time we realized that we were probably disrupting their home and left the area. Our assumptions were validated as we walked back from supper.  The evening tide rolled in and the entire area was under water.