{"id":122639,"date":"2022-08-01T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122639"},"modified":"2022-07-31T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T05:08:58","slug":"fiji-surf-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122639","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Surf Co"},"content":{"rendered":"

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a very long time ago, Tokura-san invited me on a Fiji Exploration trip presented by DOVE. \u00a0we went for 2 weeks on this big boat looking for waves in Fiji that have never been surfed before. \u00a0on the way out, we got to surf Tavarua when it use to be closed off just for the surfers that stayed at that resort. \u00a0in fact, we got to surf anywhere we went because we were with the #1 Fijian Local Surfer who owns Fiji Surf Co. \u00a0 that guy that is sitting between Tokura-san and I is one of the founders of Fijian surfing. \u00a0his name is Ian Ravouvou and he showed us the many islands surrounding his beautiful country. \u00a0we were a group of Japanese surfers exploring some of these secluded islands for the first time so we were pretty lucky.<\/p>\n

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i labeled this map. \u00a0we anchored our boat right in that beautiful lagoon that’s about 12 hours away from Tavarua. \u00a0at that time, some rich Europeans just bought that island called Nagigia. \u00a0they just completed their resort a week before and didn’t have any guests there. \u00a0so when they saw us in the lagoon, they invited us to stay at their brand new resort for free! \u00a0we were the very first guests and the owners of the island didn’t even know there was a surf break right in front. \u00a0we surfed it for the very first time, we named it “King Kong,” \u00a0and now millions of surfers know about it. \u00a0we had kava parties, we had lobster parties, and we partied all day and all night. \u00a0we \u00a0even ran out of beer so we chartered a small propeller airplane to fly us in beer. \u00a0i went with the dingy to pick up the beer and i remember it was a really small dirt road runway the plane landed on. \u00a0it was pretty crazy. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

this wave comes in from 100′ deep water onto a 5′ slab of razor sharp reef. \u00a0that’s why it’s so thick and powerful. \u00a0and the nearest hospital was 8 hours by boat, or 2 hours by dingy to the dirt runway, then a hour flight on a small, cheap, and dirty airplane filled with chickens. \u00a0so you better not get hurt!<\/p>\n

i want to thank Tokura-san for inviting me on this memorable trip, and i want to thank Ian for sharing your waves, culture, kava, and aloha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a very long time ago, Tokura-san invited me on a Fiji Exploration trip presented by DOVE. \u00a0we went for 2 weeks on this big boat looking for waves in Fiji that have never been surfed before. \u00a0on the way out, we got to surf Tavarua when it use to be closed off just for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122639","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=122639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122640,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122639\/revisions\/122640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}