Kudaka Island

This guide to Kudaka Island near Okinawa follows Yoko and Setsuko, two seventy-year-old hunters who have spent forty years climbing into coastal caves after dark to catch venomous sea kraits bare-handed. It lays out the puzzle that once drew scientists here too: how a snake that lives entirely in salt water survives when its body cannot process seawater. Listen for the caves along the shoreline, and what the two women say the animals never do to them.