{"id":36793,"date":"2013-07-24T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T03:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=36793"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T03:19:33","slug":"dive-day-3-big-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=36793","title":{"rendered":"Dive Day 3:  Big Luck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>omg, what an awesome day with some awesome stories.  all i have to say is that experiencing things in foreign counties is so fun.  i wasn&#8217;t a big fan of mexico, but now i am.  coming to find out that this might indeed be the best freediving location in the world!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6826.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6826\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36794\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nbeen getting up every morning at 5:30am.  look outside my room and this is what i see.  a beautiful sunrise, our dive boats getting ready, and the island on the horizon where we will be spending the next 8 hours in the water.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6831.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6831.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6831\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36795\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nno, i didn&#8217;t use photoshop.  this is the real colors of mexico!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6835.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6835\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36796\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand no, that is not a white spot on my camera lens.  that is the full moon this morning.  the golden sunrise on one end, and the full moon setting on the other.  pure nature!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6855.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6855\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36797\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nkyle and i are on the same team.  the 2 of us speared 121 pounds or 55 kilos of fish today.  if we caught fish like this everyday, we&#8217;d be millionaires.  but no, the kids at the orphanage get to eat fresh fish for a while and that makes us very happy.  we did blue water diving, to deep reef fishing.  here is kyle at home in the deep blue waters of mexico.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6886.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6886\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36798\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis fish is one of the hardest fish to spear.  it hides in and out of caves deep down 50-70&#8242; of water.  you have to play hide and seek with it and once you spear it, you better it doesn&#8217;t suck your speargun into a cave because you will never get it back.  that reef out there must claim about $10k\/year of spearfishing gear.  guys are loosing things everyday out there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6901.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6901\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36799\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nbefore this trip, mike and eric didn&#8217;t spear a fish bigger than their frying pan.  today, everything changed.  they came across this marlin and speared it together.  what an amazing father and son story.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6908.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6908.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6908\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36800\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter the long day, our captains clean and cut up the fish.  we keep a few fillets for sashimi, and the rest goes to the orphanage.  everybody happy!<br \/>\ntomorrow is the last day of the tournament.  hope to get some good sleep now and be fully alert tomorrow.  i was almost falling asleep while free diving today.  i&#8217;m super tired but completely at peace.  good night from my little room sitting on top of the ocean front hill in mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>omg, what an awesome day with some awesome stories. all i have to say is that experiencing things in foreign counties is so fun. i wasn&#8217;t a big fan of mexico, but now i am. coming to find out that this might indeed be the best freediving location in the world! been getting up every [&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-36793","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\/36793","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=36793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}