Ishigaki Island Report – Part 1

My search for the “perfect” island continues. This time I went to the Yaeyama islands in Okinawa prefecture, which are another 100 or so kilometers southwest of the Miyako islands that I visited last year.

Climate wise they are of course alike, (very) humid subtropical.

Let me say again that I have fear of driving (myself, not being driven) anything faster than a bicycle. Last year in Miyako, I nevertheless rented a car, this year in Ishigaki I had the weird notion to want to rent a scooter, even though I’ve never sat on a scooter in my entire life…

More on that later