{"id":133504,"date":"2024-08-07T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=133504"},"modified":"2024-08-07T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:59:01","slug":"monk-seal-swim-race-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=133504","title":{"rendered":"Monk Seal Swim Race ON!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The girls were swimming in from Bowls this morning. \u00a0All of a sudden, this Hawaiian Monk Seal appears from the side and was trying to race the girls to the beach. \u00a0Of course the Monk Seal won. \u00a0This was a very rare and lucky encounter.<\/p>\n

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On this particular wave, I was shooting from the top of the wave yelling “go left!” \u00a0Then the bottom turn starts as she goes left.<\/p>\n

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I’m still at the top of the wave watching her pass by. \u00a0Usually this will be the last photo I’d get but since I had room, I decided to ride the wave so I paddled hard.<\/p>\n

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I was going down the wave behind still pointing my camera. \u00a0This is my favorite angel because you can see exactly where she’s going.<\/p>\n

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Then she starts the cutback and suddenly realizes I was riding on the bottom of the wave. \u00a0She freaked out and said “where did you come from?” \u00a0Then fell. \u00a0Haha.<\/p>\n

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Round 2 Diamond Head all alone. \u00a0Riding sets from the very outside just like how the locals do it. \u00a0That’s major progression this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The girls were swimming in from Bowls this morning. \u00a0All of a sudden, this Hawaiian Monk Seal appears from the side and was trying to race the girls to the beach. \u00a0Of course the Monk Seal won. \u00a0This was a very rare and lucky encounter. On this particular wave, I was shooting from the top […]<\/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-133504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133504","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=133504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133513,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133504\/revisions\/133513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}