{"id":138607,"date":"2025-07-27T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138607"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:09:30","slug":"waikiki-rare-bait-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138607","title":{"rendered":"Waikiki: Rare Bait Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Round 1: \u00a0The waves were super fun this morning. \u00a0Mighty Mouse riding a 5’11 and feeling comfortable on it. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Sunny sky, warm water, glassy conditions, and perfect waves. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Both rights and lefts were so fun. \u00a0Bruce on the right and Kyle on the left. \"\"<\/p>\n

Just the locals today. \u00a0Not enough waves for visitors. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Round 2: \u00a0The waves looked small so we went free diving instead. \u00a0There was a bait ball right outside of Waikiki. \u00a0It’s the first time I saw one out there so we were so excited. \u00a0See the black spot? \u00a0That’s tens of thousands of fish swimming together trying to avoid predators. \u00a0It’s called a bait ball and of my 40 years of diving off Waikiki, this was my first sighting. \u00a0I told Mighty Mouse to jump in and swim right in the middle.\"\"<\/p>\n

5 minutes later, she came straight back to the boat with a little spooked facial expression. \u00a0She said a shark showed up on the bait ball. \u00a0Yes, every bait ball will have a shark or two. \u00a0That’s nature and its food chain.\"\"<\/p>\n

A once in a lifetime experience. \u00a0You just never know when and what the ocean will show you. \u00a0You just have to be ready!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Round 1: \u00a0The waves were super fun this morning. \u00a0Mighty Mouse riding a 5’11 and feeling comfortable on it. \u00a0 Sunny sky, warm water, glassy conditions, and perfect waves. \u00a0 Both rights and lefts were so fun. \u00a0Bruce on the right and Kyle on the left. Just the locals today. \u00a0Not enough waves for visitors. […]<\/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-138607","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\/138607","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=138607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138617,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138607\/revisions\/138617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}