~4h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
A white lighthouse on a grass headland with water on three sides and cattle grazing up to the fence. An hour each way, so it only works on a long call — and on a clear day it is the best view in the Yaeyamas.
The northern tip of Ishigaki, a lighthouse on a green headland with reef water on both sides and nothing built behind it. It is about ninety minutes each way from the port, which is the entire problem on a short call and the entire reward on a long one.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~4hCoral walls, red-tiled roofs weighted against typhoons, shisa on every ridge, and white sand lanes that residents rake by hand every morning before visitors arrive.
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See · ~3hThe water really is that colour — shallow, white-sand-floored and lit from below.
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Eat · ~2hIsland-raised black wagyu, grazed on subtropical grass and finished here.
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