Virtual Okinawa Blog

You have a great site, and I hope you will stop by and visit our site, www.saltwater-fishing-okinawa.com

Many people don’t know that Okinawa has some of the best offshore fishing in the world! Look for us on the Discovery Channel in January 2008! Saltwater Fishing Okinawa^(TM) is Okinawa’s Home of World Class Fishing Charters. We will also be featured in the “International Angler” magazine in January 2008, and will be in the 2008 “World Record Game Fishes” magazine. We are already featured on a 2 page spread of the 2008-2009 issue of “Okinawa Island Guide”, and are on the Okinawa Prefecture’s official tourist site, “Mahae Plus”! Saltwater Fishing Okinawa is owned and operated by SFO Group Corp., LTD. We are the only incorporated native English speaking charter service in Japan. Look us up and we will hook you up with some real fish!

Start your own blog! Tell us where you’re from and if you’re currently living in Okinawa or were once here.  Do you have a good tale about Okinawa or your experiences on Okinawa? We’d love to hear your stories, good or bad. There’s also the opportunity to share your photos of the island and it’s people. We’d also welcome suggestions of where we ought to make some ‘virtual tour’ photographs, bearing in mind that we usually need a 360 degree landscape.

Hello to all you “Okinawans” both old and new. As you know the site has been down for a while; a short time ago we were given the chance to buy the site so we took a look at what we could find out about Okinawa apart from the fact that there was an American base there. I should explain that ‘we’ is Andy and Rob, I’m Rob and Andy is the clever one, you’ll here more of us later!

I’ve always had a love of the Orient and its people and have wanted for a long time to visit Japan, a short study via the internet convinced me that this was my sort of place. A good climate, proximity to the sea and fabulous beaches plus traditions going back centuries with influences from many different countries a fabulous sounding mix.

I’ve read a few stories from other sites of American servicemen who couldn’t wait to finish their tour of duty and get back home yet there are others who have revelled in the new experience and have been sad when it’s come time for them to leave.

I shall be coming out to visit next year to experience the place for myself and to do some virtual tour photography but in the meantime I would love to hear of the life on Okinawa, both in the present and in past times. Please remember that what soon becomes a way of life and the ‘norm’ to anyone living on Okinawa is often fascinating and interesting to strangers. We would love to hear tales and see photographs of all aspects of Okinawa life, I can’t offer payment but I can certainly promise an invitation to join me for a few beers when I finally visit you.

We want you to feel that you’re part of this site, your contributions will be there for all to see for years to come, by starting your own blog on VirtualOkinawa.com you’ll become part of the site and will influence the way the site develops from here on in. Please don’t feel that you have to conform to any norms (apart from decency and respect for others) as we want a variety of opinions and experiences on all manner of topics and facets of life on Okinawa.