Zamami-jima and the rainmaker

What distinguishes camping from most other ways of traveling is living with the elements - the direct impact of nature and close environment.

The idea of island hopping becomes a different experience surrounded by the sounds of sea, wind and rain. And after a rainy and stormy night in the tent, the early morning birds surprise again and again.

There's no doubt about the beauty as well as power of changing weather that the pearl necklace-like lined up Ryukyu islands are exposed. Today the morning sun invited me on a trail for one of the whale-spotting lookouts, but till i climbed up the condition had changed - a dark wall was approaching from north.

No escape, but wide screen cinema in dolby sound. And an hour later the rainbow gave the signal for a great, sunny day out in the sea - turtels, i'm coming.

I asked at the reception to organise a wetsuit (for tall alien ; ) and 15 minutes later I entered already that unimaginable coloured coral pool just in front of the Ama Campground.

In general I am not really a 'fish in the water' and try to avoid swimming in open sea, but once I looked through the googles below the waterline ... i forgot my fear and followed the seaturtles. It's about the right mindset that seems to tune-in by itself. Suddenly the firemonkey turned into fish ...