June 12, 2025
We snagged a spot on the public dock here in Naha Bay. When we first approached the dock it looked to be completely filled up by what appeared to be a homeless encampment: big old fishing trawler, a tent structure chocked full of assorted clothes and then another fishing boat and gas cans everywhere. Coming from Seattle where I personally experienced the destruction of the city before my eyes, I naturally (though unfortunately) immediately assumed the worst. Both Marlene and I were surprised that this could occur on a public dock, but we thought if it gets bad we can just go over to the other public dock, exposed but viable.
We decided to lock up the boat and go on the two mile trail hike. As we progressed further in to the trail we begin to notice that a ton of work was being done, new wooden bridges, freshly laid gravel and beautifully arranged paving steps.
Here is Marlene standing one one of the new bridges, literally installed just days ago.
We soon realized what we thought was a homeless camp was actually the contractors camp. We met one of the workers and told him on how fantastic everything looks. He replied that they had been working on the trail that was in really poor condition for the last month. The fishing trawler is their “home away from home.”
The trail loops around a very pretty lagoon.
There is also an area down by water where the lagoon narrows and “rapids” form at high incoming and out going tides. We will return to this later in the day when the rapids are hopefully running.
How about this for a portable generator? Have hand cart will travel. We are off to Meyer’s Chuck early tomorrow to try and get a spot on the next dock. In the meantime the sun has come out, I have made a loaf of banana bread to give to the hard working crew upon their return to the dock for the evening.
Good onya!