![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GPTempDownload-65-800x450.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I get back to the Bowls yesterday afternoon. \u00a0Right then, a baby seal came up to the beach. \u00a0There were tourists surrounding it trying to get photos. \u00a0I immediately told them to move back and stay away from it. \u00a0One told me “well, it came up to me so it’s not my fault.” \u00a0Another said “it’s ok. seals like us humans.” \u00a0Another said “it’s ok, it’s only a seal.” \u00a0I said “hey, we have rules in Hawaii and it’s illegal to go near a seal so get away!” \u00a0Then another tourist started to complain to me about being so sensitive because all they wanted was a photo. \u00a0Then I got mad. \u00a0I said “if you don’t want to respect our culture, go back to where you came from!” \u00a0Opps, I thought I was going to get “cancelled,” until a couple locals came up to me and said thank you for saying that.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GPTempDownload-64-800x450.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
20 minutes later, that same baby seal swam up right to us, smiled, and swam away. \u00a0In my mind, I said to it, “Sorry for the ignorant tourists earlier. \u00a0Why can’t they understand that they are supposed to stay 150 feet or 50 meters away from you? \u00a0You know you’re an endangered species and are federally protected right? \u00a0You know there is a $50,000 fine with up to 5 years in prison if they touched you right?<\/p>\n
Sorry for venting. \u00a0Last week in Waikiki, a tourist jumped on a baby humpback whales back and tried to ride it. \u00a0I still can’t believe that happened. \u00a0Maybe I’m getting old, but I don’t like tourist who travel to other countries and show such disrespect. \u00a0That’s just not right.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I get back to the Bowls yesterday afternoon. \u00a0Right then, a baby seal came up to the beach. \u00a0There were tourists surrounding it trying to get photos. \u00a0I immediately told them to move back and stay away from it. \u00a0One told me “well, it came up to me so it’s not my fault.” \u00a0Another said […]<\/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":["post-130326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130326","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=130326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130339,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130326\/revisions\/130339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}