{"id":1728,"date":"2009-05-31T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T06:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/05\/31\/japanese-opihi-pickers\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T06:40:46","slug":"japanese-opihi-pickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Opihi Pickers&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  wow, the waves looked pretty good in town today.  i wanted to surf but my body was telling me not too.  i&#8217;m totally burnt out from too much sun.  i stayed indoors all day and i was still freaking hot.  i was checking out the 600 or so photos i took in molokai and i&#8217;m pretty happy with them, especially the underwater ones.  as for the surfing spots, that&#8217;s going to be kept a secret.  i&#8217;ve never to this day seen a photo of the place where we surfed, and i want it to stay that way.  yeah, we all took photos and i just hope nobody puts it on their blog or something.  all i have to say that the waves were clean, fun, and nobody was out.  that&#8217;s how oahu must have been 100 years ago and i wish it was still like that now.  but it&#8217;s not and i have accepted it.  so the next time i want go back in time, i know where i can go and it&#8217;s only 20 minutes away.  just by knowing that will keep me happy for the rest of my life&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090531073150.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nif your from hawaii, you should know by now that &#8220;opihi&#8221; is the most sought out seafood in hawaii.  it&#8217;s hard to find, taste better than abalone, and costs more than lobster.  and not to leave out, it&#8217;s extremely dangerous to pick and a lot of people die from trying.  we found this little bay that was loaded with opihi&#8217;s and picked a bag for our dinner.  risky, but worth is&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5280924.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nwhy cook indoors when you have a beautiful yard overlooking the beach, perfect for a barbecue&#8230;.  we started in the evening and went all night long&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5280926.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nraw opihi, garlic\/butter bbq opihi, bbq chicken, steamed fish, grilled musubi, and lot&#8217;s of fun.  our barbecue would have costed us hundreds of dollars on oahu. but on molokai, it&#8217;s just pennies&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5290940.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nkyle was telling me that this part of molokai is the most beautiful place in the world.  i had to see it to believe it.  and when i saw it, i feel the same way.  mountains going high into the clouds, breathless waterfalls, turquoise water, rocks, trees, green, caves, and pretty much everything you can think of.  i&#8217;ve never seen anything like that all on one coast.  i will be going back there for sure&#8230;.<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">**and last, check out the segment of kelia moniz that was featured on fuel tv.  pretty cool&#8230;.  but i just have one question?  why wasn&#8217;t i in there????  haha&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. wow, the waves looked pretty good in town today. i wanted to surf but my body was telling me not too. i&#8217;m totally burnt out from too much sun. i stayed indoors all day and i was still freaking hot. i was checking out the 600 or so photos i took in molokai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}