{"id":109655,"date":"2020-02-26T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=109655"},"modified":"2020-02-26T05:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:57:21","slug":"dive-hawaii-best-day-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=109655","title":{"rendered":"Dive Hawaii:  Best day of the year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109659\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-12.30.13-PM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>of the 70 days or so Seira-chan came to Hawaii last year, i couldn&#8217;t take her free diving because of the conditions. \u00a0it was either too windy, too rough, or the water was too dirty. \u00a0so yeah, it never happened. \u00a0yesterday, everything came together. \u00a0it was as beautiful as it gets and it couldn&#8217;t have been a better day for her first free dive experience. \u00a0so i took her to my favorite turtle spot to free dive with them&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109658\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-12.34.10-PM-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>i had to even teach her how to use a snorkel. \u00a0then i gave her a few tips, then she just did it. \u00a0swimming down effortlessly into the deep blue. \u00a0towards the end of the day, i dove down 40&#8242; to the bottom, and when i turned around to go back up, she was right behind me. \u00a0OMG! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109657\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-12.31.47-PM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>this is 30&#8242; deep and she is totally relaxed. \u00a0i&#8217;ve never seen anyone hit 30&#8242; on their very first free dive experience. \u00a0i was so amazed, but at the same time, i knew she could do it. \u00a0can&#8217;t wait to take her again and go even deeper. \u00a0and maybe bump into some dolphins&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109656\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-12.29.41-PM-663x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"418\" \/>there were so many fish!!! \u00a0i kept on diving down and they wouldn&#8217;t run away. \u00a0so i go back to Mayuki to grab my speargun. \u00a0once i got back in, the fish saw my speargun, they just vanished. \u00a0that was pretty crazy because i never seen that before. \u00a0they just knew i went from snorkeler to hunter&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109660\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_3031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>thank you Seira-chan for being so brave in the ocean, and for all the wonderful snacks from Japan. \u00a0that Tokushima nori is my favorite!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109661\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_3044.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>and thank you also for the freshly baked blueberry muffin. \u00a0it was delicious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of the 70 days or so Seira-chan came to Hawaii last year, i couldn&#8217;t take her free diving because of the conditions. \u00a0it was either too windy, too rough, or the water was too dirty. \u00a0so yeah, it never happened. \u00a0yesterday, everything came together. \u00a0it was as beautiful as it gets and it couldn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}