{"id":229,"date":"2007-12-07T19:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/12\/07\/japanese-surf-trip-pohnpei\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T19:43:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T10:43:19","slug":"japanese-surf-trip-pohnpei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Surf Trip:  Pohnpei&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  rain rain go away!!  gosh, you&#8217;ve been here so long.  just go away&#8230;  wow, am i talking to the rain?  this wet dark weather is making me crazy.  and probably making a lot of other people crazy too.  imagine saving months and months of salary to take your dream surf trip to hawaii&#8217;s north shore?  and when you get there, it&#8217;s raining everyday.  and to make things worst, the waves suck.  and to make things moreworst, the electricity goes out for 2 days and there is nothing to do.  if you came here 2 weeks ago, you must be bumming right now.  i&#8217;m starting to go crazy with this weather and i can just imagine how the tourists are feeling.  drove out to the east side today because it&#8217;s the only side the water is semi-clean.  i saw a japanese couple walking in the rain along sandy beach all soaked.  i felt sorry for them&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20071208093800.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071208093800.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nonce passed makapuu, the water got clean and the winds were off-shore.   30mph + but off-shore.  it was raining pretty hard that you could barely see rabbit island&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20071208093904.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071208093904.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthen the sun came out for 15 minutes and looked like the hawaii i&#8217;m use to seeing.  makapuu shorebreak was going off.  if i was a bodyboarder, i would be in heaven.  bodysurfed one wave and almost broke my neck.  not a good call.  started to rain again shortly after and is still raining now.  ugly yucky day&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG_0843.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0843.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis is how hawaii supposed to look like.  this is waimea bay last summer.  it don&#8217;t look anything like this right now and will take a while for the brown water to clean up.  i can&#8217;t wait for the sun to come back out&#8230;<br \/>\n**tokura-san and the crew just got back from pohnpei, micronesia.  check out some of the photos&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PB270014.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PB270014.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\ngoing surfing&#8230;.  i think i&#8217;ve been in this same river.  went there 10 years or so ago.  all i remember was &#8220;rain, rain, and rain&#8221;&#8230;  pohnpei is supposed to be one of the wettest places in the world.  beautiful, but wet&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PB280019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PB280019.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\ntokura-san told me they have the perfect setup.  japanese food everyday even with a japanese menu.  sounds so oishi&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PB280035.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PB280035.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nand he told me the waves were good and barreling.  i&#8217;m jealous&#8230;  when i went there, the only thing that was barreling was my shower&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PC020154.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PC020154.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis is tokura-san and hiromichi-san.  two great surfers. heard they had a great time surfing awesome waves.  more photos coming later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. rain rain go away!! gosh, you&#8217;ve been here so long. just go away&#8230; wow, am i talking to the rain? this wet dark weather is making me crazy. and probably making a lot of other people crazy too. imagine saving months and months of salary to take your dream surf trip to hawaii&#8217;s [&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":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-go-naminori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}