{"id":3171,"date":"2010-04-14T06:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/04\/14\/hoshizuna-star-sand-beach\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T06:36:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:36:05","slug":"hoshizuna-star-sand-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"Hoshizuna-Star Sand Beach&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020312.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ngood morning.  i&#8217;m still tripping out on how beautiful the beach in yoron was.  the water was so clear and the color so emerald blue.  i wish i had a house on the white sandy beach there&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020322.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthere are these sand bars that pop out of the ocean on low tide.  paradise or what?  i can&#8217;t wait to go back!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020324.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nand check out the star sand all over in the water.  1 year ago, i was researching and researching everywhere on the internet to find out how i can go scoop up some star sand.  a lot of websites said that there are only 2 islands where you can go get the sand.  one is taketomi and the other is iriomote island.  and from what i&#8217;ve heard, many tourists from around the world go there to pick the sand so there&#8217;s not that much star sand anymore.  well, all the websites were wrong.  there are 3 islands where you can get star sand or &#8220;hoshizuna&#8221; and Yoron is one of them.  i don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a smart idea to share this secret&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020321.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is yoron&#8217;s super local spear fisheman Sabu-san.  if it wasn&#8217;t for sabu-san, this whole trip couldn&#8217;t have happened.  one of the nicest guys you&#8217;ll ever meet.  sabu-san flew over from okinawa to bring us a huge piece of meat for our barbecue party.  i&#8217;m so lucky to be able to meet such kind people in this world&#8230;.  thanks and see you all again soon!!<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">**and last, here&#8217;s some info on our mentawai trip.  let&#8217;s all meet at the exit of kuala lumper airport.  i think all our flights are only an hour apart.  i get there at 5:55 pm on JAL.  if something happens and you get lost or can&#8217;t find everybody, proceed to the ground level and get the shuttle to the Concorde Airport Hotel which is 5 minutes by the free shuttle bus.  it leaves every 30 minutes.  i have a room so if worst comes to worst, we can all pile up in there.  the next morning, our flight leaves at 7:50 am from the LCC terminal which is about 15 minutes away from where we arrive so don&#8217;t get lost.  be there 2 hours early because it takes time to get the boards on the flight.  if you miss this flight, you might miss the boat.  as for the waves?  i just checked the report and there are 2 pretty nice looking ground swells headed that way.  i&#8217;m bringing a couple of 6&#8217;0&#8217;s and a 6&#8217;4.  i encourage everybody to bring a tube of wasabi and a bottle of shoyu for our sashimi parties.  anyway, see you all soon!!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. i&#8217;m still tripping out on how beautiful the beach in yoron was. the water was so clear and the color so emerald blue. i wish i had a house on the white sandy beach there&#8230; there are these sand bars that pop out of the ocean on low tide. paradise or what? i [&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-3171","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\/3171","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=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}