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10. Remember To Star Sand


As walking on sandy-beach of Gold Coast, I heard magical sound. It is Singing Sand.
Sands in hand contain a lot of small coral and various shells.
Ancient creatures have fossilized to small fragments for long time and now come-to-life with sounds by rubbing each other.
In white sand beach I hear magical sounds.
But I do not remember what the color is really only white and the smell of the beach.

I have been playing in Okinawa, Japan. I navigated a glass boat in a small island between Iriomote and Ishigaki island in Yaeyama islands of Okinawa.
I had a guidance of corals and explained to sightseeing tourists about tropical fishes.
At first I called the tropical fishes in correct names of dictionary. But tourists were looking like futile faces and suspended the right names. Then, I called"Angel fishes" substituted "Hatatatedai", I predicated "male" on all blue bream and concluded "female" on red bream near blue ones. Tourists showed no claims about my precarious explanations and enjoyed at looking of bottom-of-the-sea. I was like an incorrect radio-commentator. I regret a lot of mistakes in my explanations. At explanation of tropical fishes I watched especially the hard coral . Glass boat is very dangerous for corals and tourists because of grounding and scratching of screws. I navigated many times nearby corals for only sightseeing tourists. However, I was indigestible about true life of corals and had no talking with the corals. Almost sands in that island are made of a lot of very small porous worm shells. Their shapes are look like small stars and the island is called "Star Sand Island". I was walking on that star sand all-over seashore.
However, I can not remember about the magical sound of star sand at walking. I had star sands in hand and looked at only the shapes and no sounds and no smell of the beach.

I took a glass boat sightseeing in Great Barrier Reef. Corals are very big. Captain explained about table corals , brain corals of hard corals and spaghetti corals of soft corals. He called a big black fishes like sharks as "TURUM". I do not care about Japanese name of those corals and fishes at that time. I enjoyed a jumping of those fishes with foods from our ship. However , I could not look at small beautiful tropical fishes behind the corals. Real sea is not like in aquarium and in films.

I have always regret something after travels.
I would like to go there again and talk with small tropical fishes in real sea. I would like to go again and hear the magical sounds of star sand. I would like to go again and look real color and smell of the seashore.
I would like to go again .....Sands in seashore always remember me to regret at long ago and come back again.
At that time in Australian the Sand was actually singing a song titled "Remember to Star Sand".


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