{"id":18715,"date":"2012-06-12T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=18715"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:37:49","slug":"mentawai-photo-gallery-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=18715","title":{"rendered":"Mentawai Photo Gallery 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18716\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18716\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5224\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18716\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nnothing beats eating fresh sashimi and poke every evening for 10 days.  this is like a daily routine on our boat trips for the past 10 plus years.  i&#8217;d estimate thousands of dollars each trip ranging from lobster sashimi, to ika, to tai, to GT, and much more of a selection.  my favorite has to be the spicy poke wrapped in nori dipped in ponzu and yuzukosho.  OMG!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18717\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18717\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5235.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5235\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18717\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nadd a bintang and friends, then you got a floating party every night!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18718\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5459.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5459\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18718\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsomebody asked me how i know Kosei-san.  the answer?  my blog.  it was over 2 years ago when this successful family\/business man sent me an email expressing his passion for surfing and traveling.  i could read between the words that he really wanted to enter our world.  now, he&#8217;s in it living and surfing his dream.  his surfing level went up 5 levels from 2 years ago and we were all stoked to see him smiling after every session.  big bottom turn at Bintangs!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_5957.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5957\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18719\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlyssa Wooten on her first boat mentawai boat trip.  good to see this young talented energetic girl chasing her dreams.  we had some great conversations on the boat and now i know this girl 10x more than i thought i did.  good to watch her growing up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6755.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6755\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18720\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwe hardly got to dive on this trip.  maybe only 4 times?  but this dive outside HT&#8217;s was my favorite.  Asako and Reika wanted to learn how to free dive so the came out to the blue water and i couldn&#8217;t stop laughing at their faces and screams.  i was down 50&#8242; on one dive and could hear the girls screaming on the surface.  classic!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18721\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7093.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7093\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18721\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nto tell you the truth, i couldn&#8217;t believe our boat didn&#8217;t break in half, crack, or flip over during the first night storm.  i slept with my mask and snorkel just to prepare for the worst.  but after surviving that, the Naga Laut proved it can take a beating and keep on ticking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nothing beats eating fresh sashimi and poke every evening for 10 days. this is like a daily routine on our boat trips for the past 10 plus years. i&#8217;d estimate thousands of dollars each trip ranging from lobster sashimi, to ika, to tai, to GT, and much more of a selection. my favorite has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715","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=18715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}