{Zamami Island}

I LOVE. Absolutely LOVE, the Kerama Islands. The water is amazing, the views are amazing, the coral is amazing, the colors are amazing. It's got to be one of the best spots in the world. Seriously.  I almost cannot take in how perfect it is. Sometimes as i am looking at what i have the opportunity to see here i am overwhelmed because i can't believe i am actually living in a place i only used to dream about. Anyway, enough of that.

 

We went with some friends to the Kerama Islands and chose to go to Zamami Island. We took a ferry ride that lasted about 50 minutes. We have seats on the boat just like the seats on an airplane, but more room. They also have an upper deck that you can stand on outside, which is what the boys are doing right now, with their friend Jack.

 When we arrived to the island we took about a 5 minute shuttle ride to our beach.  It was beautiful. We rented two lounge chairs and an umbrella.  Here's Jaydon eating his sandwich...

 And Gavin eating his sandwich...

 And Tanner playing in the sand....

 Here's our fun beach we were on....

 Tanner playing in the water... Look at the view. Paradise. When i need to find my happy place, this is my happy place.

 Shane out with his buddies doing some snorkeling. The snorkeling was totally awesome. It's so beautiful underwater.  We saw sea snakes, Crown of Thorns, puffer fish, starfish, many varieties of schools of fish, many clams, many clownfish going in and out of their anemones, many varieties of coral, jellyfish, a humongous sea cucumber that was very different looking than we have ever seen before. So much awesome variety.

 All the dark spots you see in the water is the coral where all the excitement is happening underwater. None of these pictures are photoshopped. Some of them you might think are, and some of them you know they aren't. But this one here is true color,but still not as beautiful as in person.

 Here are these three silly boys. Jaydon and Andersen played a lot together on the floats. We took Gavin and Tanner out on the floats and let them look at all the coral and fish. Its so convenient having that because they can lay on the float and just put their head in and look at all the things we get to see. It was so much fun.

 Exploring the cool rock formations for awhile. There were some tidal pools around these parts and the boys enjoyed finding the dead crabs, picking them up and bringing them to me to show me. :)

 Funny how each of their personalities come out in pictures...

 I love that my friend took a picture of the boys and I. I am never in pics so i love this one. I just wish they were smiling to show how much fun they really did have. See that water?!?! Crystal clear.

 Our ride home on the ferry all the boys sat with each other. The japanese ladies behind them were loving the boys the whole way. The japanese love little kids, especially blonde kids. :) Jack is Tanner's age and Andersen is Jaydon's age. They have fun together.  Gavin doesn't have a friend in this group that's his age, but he still had fun playing with them. Gavin really had tons of fun getting on the floats and swimming out to the coral and snorkeling and swimming back in, all by himself. I could tell he was loving it.

This was such a fun trip for all of us. Any chance we get to go to the Kerama's we will take. Our last trip was a charter boat to the Keramas , and i am so excited to put together one of those trips so we can go scuba diving out their this time because our last charter boat experience we weren't scuba certified yet. Oh i cannot wait.
We had lots of fun here. I love that we have such wonderful friends here and it makes it feel like home, but home in paradise.