Iriomote Island is the most remote of the Yaeyama group, with 90 percent of the island covered by virgin subtropical forest, mangroves along the Urauchi River and several major waterfalls. It is home to the critically endangered Iriomote wildcat as well as about 2,000 people and has been called the “Galapagos of the Pacific” (or the Orient, the East, or Japan).

My token waterfall, albeit a tiny one. There are a number of waterfalls on Iriomote Island, and I know we visited at least one of the more famous ones, but for some odd reason I have no pictures of it. Perhaps it was raining so hard at that point, I couldn’t photograph it.

Mangroves, Iriomote Island, posted earlier: