Well this forum has been a bit dead recently, hopefully it will pick up a little as we move in summer and the water gets warmer!
I had a brief trip down to Geruma a couple of weeks ago, leaving after work on the Wednesday, 3 days diving and returning on Sunday. Some brief info below
The island of Geruma is small, and very remote... no shops, no restaurants, no bars and probably 100 or so houses and a couple of dive shops. There is a small store on the island of Aka which is connected via a road bridge. Access is via a 2 hour fast ferry from Naha, which drops you on Aka.
We stayed with Omura-san, at Geruma Pension and I couldn't recommend him highly enough. Very nice guy, accomplished guide and excellent chef! The meals he conjured up were simple, but expertly blended and mostly grown locally - we had potatoes from his daughters school garden, tomatoes from his neighbour, sliced crunchy daikon from his garden and several locally caught fish. Our dinner on the first night was mouthwatering tasty and consisted 7 individual dishes
local bonito sashimi and freshly ground wasabi and garlic
grilled mahi mahi
sliced daikon and sesame sauce
Okinawan slow boiled pork
homemade fried tofu
spicy seaweed soup
steamed local white rice
Omura-san has thousands of dives on Geruma, knows it like the back of his hand and has even starred in NHK TV shows about the island. His blog is here
¥±¥é¥Þ¡¦¥Þ¥ê¥ó¥µ¡¼¥Ó¥¹ ¥²¥ë¥Þ¤Î¥À¥¤¥Ó¥ó¥°¾ðÊó ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
The diving is very relaxed, lots of white sand, amazing visbility and very little if any current. There is a good selection of hard corals - some of which are sucuumbing to a disease - and a few soft corals in some dive spots. The normal selection of reef fish abound as well as turtles, octopi etc. We saw two male cuttlefish fighting over a female, as well as a group of eight cuttlefish which I've never seen before.
The diving is not spectacular but it's warm, easy and wonderfully relaxing.
It's also nudibranch heaven if they are your thing
Pygmy seahorse - just the creature to make me wish I had a macro lens
One of the cuttlefish in the group of 8
Turtle
Yours truly finally getting an avatar shot
The olibigatory clownfish
We fell in love with the owner's dog and he liked the beach but not the sea! He was scared of the waves (as you can see it's a rough old day in the bay) but did jump in to try and "save" us when we were snorkelling!
I had a brief trip down to Geruma a couple of weeks ago, leaving after work on the Wednesday, 3 days diving and returning on Sunday. Some brief info below
The island of Geruma is small, and very remote... no shops, no restaurants, no bars and probably 100 or so houses and a couple of dive shops. There is a small store on the island of Aka which is connected via a road bridge. Access is via a 2 hour fast ferry from Naha, which drops you on Aka.
We stayed with Omura-san, at Geruma Pension and I couldn't recommend him highly enough. Very nice guy, accomplished guide and excellent chef! The meals he conjured up were simple, but expertly blended and mostly grown locally - we had potatoes from his daughters school garden, tomatoes from his neighbour, sliced crunchy daikon from his garden and several locally caught fish. Our dinner on the first night was mouthwatering tasty and consisted 7 individual dishes
local bonito sashimi and freshly ground wasabi and garlic
grilled mahi mahi
sliced daikon and sesame sauce
Okinawan slow boiled pork
homemade fried tofu
spicy seaweed soup
steamed local white rice
Omura-san has thousands of dives on Geruma, knows it like the back of his hand and has even starred in NHK TV shows about the island. His blog is here
¥±¥é¥Þ¡¦¥Þ¥ê¥ó¥µ¡¼¥Ó¥¹ ¥²¥ë¥Þ¤Î¥À¥¤¥Ó¥ó¥°¾ðÊó ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
The diving is very relaxed, lots of white sand, amazing visbility and very little if any current. There is a good selection of hard corals - some of which are sucuumbing to a disease - and a few soft corals in some dive spots. The normal selection of reef fish abound as well as turtles, octopi etc. We saw two male cuttlefish fighting over a female, as well as a group of eight cuttlefish which I've never seen before.
The diving is not spectacular but it's warm, easy and wonderfully relaxing.
It's also nudibranch heaven if they are your thing
Pygmy seahorse - just the creature to make me wish I had a macro lens
One of the cuttlefish in the group of 8
Turtle
Yours truly finally getting an avatar shot
The olibigatory clownfish
We fell in love with the owner's dog and he liked the beach but not the sea! He was scared of the waves (as you can see it's a rough old day in the bay) but did jump in to try and "save" us when we were snorkelling!
