It is far out in the East Chinese sea, so the air is fresh and clean and the sky is huge and all surrounding. We are in a wee hamlet on the south west corner of the island, it is winter and not so much is going on. There is people here but not that many. The main attraction here is scuba diving and whale watching and then the beach in summertime.
Now is in fact whale season and we should be sure to get to see some, if we could just get out on the water in a boat. We tried last year we were here, but I think we were just too late in the season and the humpbacks had all moved along. The two or something hours we spent on a little boat surrounding the islands were for e cat, as we never saw a single whale.
This year it should be different so we decided to go at this time where we are on holiday for Chinese New Year. But will we have any luck this time? So far not. The weather hasn't really been on our side, and so we have not yet been able to go out on the water to have a look.
Instead we have been strolling up and down the road and the streets in this little place you could call; a "5 minutes walk to everything" place.Literally it only takes about a handful of minutes to get from one point to another here.
Even it is not overrun by tourists at the moment, there is still plenty of options for lunch or a sneaky pint of beer.
During our last visit, we mostly went to a place we called "Soba Oma's Soba shop" which was a little soup and noodle shop not far from the nice beach here. The food was great and cheap. Only little minus was the army of hungry stray cats, who was around and trying to make us feel sorry for them.
This time we have changed this Soba Oma for another option. The "Soba Shed". It is just two streets away from the Soba Oma, and like her, only open through lunch time at noon an then again some hours around dinner time. And it was a good choice. The was quite busy with locals, which of corse always tends to be a recommendation in it self.
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