A man and a woman pose for a selfie in front of a railing. Behind them some rocks or maybe old coral lead to the sea. Not far away is a little grassy island under white fluffy clouds

The last couple of weeks have been pretty traditional travel photos but this week will be all selfies from our trips. And today’s is from Miyako Island. We stopped while driving by here because it looked so nice
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A statue of Miyako Island’s traffic safety officer Mamoru-kun

Around Miyako you’ll see these figures of Mamoru-kun, a traffic safety officer who promotes safe driving. Although they’re all referred to as Mamoru-kun I think technically only one of them is Mamoru-kun and the others have different names.
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A mural of a large blue coconut crab painted on a wall

We went on a night walk one night and got to see some coconut crabs. They were big but not as big as this coconut crab mural that we saw while we were walking around the town
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A Japanese Torii gate in front the the main building of the Miyako-jinja Shrine

We didn’t spend much time in town but we had a little time before our flight on the day we left so we wandered around a little. One of the places we went was the Miyako-jinja Shrine
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The sun sets over the ocean

The first beach we saw, although didn’t swim at, was Painagama Beach. It was close to our hotel so we saw it most days, including on our last day after dinner when we stopped to look at the ocean
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A few people sit on the beach looking out at the ocean. In the shallows are some rocks and trees fringe the beach in the background

This is the beach we went to on our last day on Miyako Island. It was recommended to us by our snorkeling guide and is actually on next door Shimoji Island, which is reachable by car and where the airport we flew from is
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Some kind of tractor sits on the beach. A bridge over the ocean is visible over the water in the background

We were on an island so we obviously spent a lot of time at the beach. One day we were driving around the southern part of the island and stopped at a couple of places, including this beach, on our way to a lighthouse
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A painting on a wall that says “Welcome to Shimojishima airport!” And includes a bridge over the ocean and below some clouds with the Pokemon Growlithe and some flowers in the front

Our flight back to Shenzhen was later in the day so we got to see some a couple of things first. We saw a shrine, and the town, had lunch, and took photos with the airport Pokemon art
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Murky water meanders off into the distance between two patches of mangrove trees

Although we usually visit islands to go to the beach we don’t spend all of our time there, and our trip to Miyako Island was no different. We also saw mangroves, a lighthouse, and wetlands
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A sandy beach leads to the ocean. One person stands in the ocean while what look like weights or location markers for umbrellas can be seen in the sand. Clouds can be seen in the sky in the distance

Our last trip of 2025, during China’s National Day holiday, was to Miyako Island. Hong Kong has direct flights there so we jumped at the chance. Obviously we spent quite a lot of time at the beach
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The beach after everybody has left
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We didn’t want to miss the lighthouse because lighthouses usually have great views of the ocean
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We stopped at Ingya Marine Garden Park early on in the trip after seeing a sign and deciding to stop
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