{"id":41021,"date":"2014-01-08T05:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=41021"},"modified":"2014-01-08T05:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:18:21","slug":"99-shark-and-turtle-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=41021","title":{"rendered":"99% Shark and Turtle Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>well, winter is finally here!  been super cold both in and out of the water.  some hail falling from the sky, and when i get home at night, my inner bones are still shivering.  keep warm!<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been diving out around this island for over half my life.  so i&#8217;ve found a lot of spots that offer different things.  there is one particular spot outside of waikiki that turtles and sharks hang out.  i can go there everyday and see the same sharks and same turtles.  it&#8217;s their home and since the reef out at waikiki is mostly flat, they come home to this cave that is 35&#8242; deep.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0457.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0457.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41022\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsee me down there?  the fish and sharks are all in the hole.  once i go down and wake everybody up, the turtles start swimming around and so does the shark.  pretty cool natural aquarium.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0442.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0442.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41025\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nalmost all the time there will be a turtle swimming on the surface.  they are super tame and will even swim up to you.  i took Yumi-san out there for her first turtle experience.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0444.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0444.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41023\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni say 99% of the time they will be at that very spot.  it&#8217;s more like 100% but nothing in life is a guarantee.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0476.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GOPR0476.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41024\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen there is another spot where the water is so blue and amazing.  perfect for a photo like this.  Yumi-san never snorkeled in her life until this past trip.  now she&#8217;s a mermaid!  i&#8217;m sure her life will never be the same.  and i&#8217;m sure she already misses hawaii.  that&#8217;s what the ocean can do to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well, winter is finally here! been super cold both in and out of the water. some hail falling from the sky, and when i get home at night, my inner bones are still shivering. keep warm! i&#8217;ve been diving out around this island for over half my life. so i&#8217;ve found a lot of spots [&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-41021","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\/41021","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=41021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}