{"id":25727,"date":"2012-10-25T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=25727"},"modified":"2012-10-25T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:09:17","slug":"outside-waikiki-dream-session-broken-sailboat-shark-kills-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=25727","title":{"rendered":"Outside Waikiki, Dream Session, Broken Sailboat, Shark Kills Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  wow! good surf this morning.  then the wind came onshore and junky.  i was driving home at 1pm and i saw the dark clouds coming, and then i looked at the coconut trees and it was still.  no wind?  what? i u-turn, rush back to bowls, and i seen a perfect 4&#8242; set peeling down the line like it was somewhere in indonesia or something.  i grab my board, run to the beach, paddle my fastest out, and find out there are only a few surfers in the water.  2 locals that are my friends so we traded off set after set.  on my first wave, i did 6 backside off the lips and i was super stoked.  this was probably my best summer session in hawaii by far.  just sitting on the outside with friends taking turns on perfect overhead waves.  i felt like i was in indonesia or something.  we were laughing, smiling, and talking story.  i couldn&#8217;t be a happier surfer than i am right now.  thank you mother nature!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=25729\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25729\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo-225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25729\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni had a great time this morning with Niimura-san and Murakami-san.  the waves were huge but we all managed to surf and make it back to the beach safely.  it&#8217;s their second time to hawaii and they only know about waikiki so i took them outside the busy city.  surf, eat, and sightsee.  what a wonderful morning!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=25728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo-125.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-25728\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis swell was pretty powerful.  the waves were super thick and had a lot of power.  a few people broke boards today and i&#8217;m glad it wasn&#8217;t mine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=25730\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo-131.jpg\" alt=\"photo 13\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-25730\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nremember the boat i saw anchored off magic island 2 days ago?  well, it&#8217;s all in pieces now and the main part is sunk right in the channel of ala moana.  a dangerous place to be and the owner is going to have to pay a lot of money to get it out of there.  after thinking about it, i should have paddled over to the boat that morning i saw it and moved it myself.  i could have dove down, grabbed the anchor, and let the wind take it out a little farther out to a safer place.  oh well, maybe next time.  but it&#8217;s so weird how i imagined exactly how it was going to sink.  crazy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=25731\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25731\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/great-white-shark-1.jpg\" alt=\"great-white-shark-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-25731\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nyesterday, a 23 year old california surfer got eaten by a shark right in front of his friend.  he died. it happened at santa barbara but don&#8217;t be fooled, it can happen anywhere.<br \/>\nwell, tomorrow i&#8217;m waking up early because the morning session is going to be super glassy.  rain and thunderstorm on the way but i don&#8217;t care.  i just want to surf, surf, and surf!  i just can&#8217;t get enough!  have a great evening and a wonderful sleep.  goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. wow! good surf this morning. then the wind came onshore and junky. i was driving home at 1pm and i saw the dark clouds coming, and then i looked at the coconut trees and it was still. no wind? what? i u-turn, rush back to bowls, and i seen a perfect 4&#8242; set [&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-25727","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\/25727","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=25727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}