{"id":53535,"date":"2015-02-19T05:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=53535"},"modified":"2015-02-19T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:53:13","slug":"hawaii-dangerous-whale-and-turtle-watching-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=53535","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii:  Dangerous Whale and Turtle Watching Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-18-at-12.14.21-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-18-at-12.14.21-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-18 at 12.14.21 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53543\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2 days ago a whale watching catamaran made a pretty bad choice.  high surf advisory, building swell, onshore winds?  that&#8217;s crazy to even try to go out!  anyway, the catamaran went out anyway on the way in to haleiwa harbor, a freak set broke in the channel and hit 5 of the 15 passengers into the ocean.  including a pregnant woman.  luckily the lifeguards saw everything and saved everybody.  it could have been very ugly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/haleiwa-catamaran-rescue-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/haleiwa-catamaran-rescue-1-640x361.jpg\" alt=\"haleiwa-catamaran-rescue-1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53536\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsee the tourists in the ocean?  they&#8217;re lucky another freak set didn&#8217;t break on their heads.  18&#8242; faces that day and just not a good day to go out on a whale watching tour.  very bad call.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-18-at-12.11.31-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-18-at-12.11.31-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-18 at 12.11.31 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53539\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe catamaran had to get towed to makaha on the west side.  a lot of expensive damage had been done but luckily nobody died.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-18-at-12.12.18-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-18-at-12.12.18-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-18 at 12.12.18 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53541\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;m sure these tourists have a great story to take back home with them.  and i&#8217;m sure nobody would believe.  and i&#8217;m sure a lot of hungry lawyers are looking at this right now thinking &#8220;lawsuit!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.51.41-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.51.41-PM-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-17 at 2.51.41 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53537\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis very same day, the south shore was the place to be.  beautiful whales, and beautiful turtles.  Seigo-san and Yuki-san the male mermaids.  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.54.50-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.54.50-PM-640x358.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-17 at 2.54.50 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53538\" \/><\/a><br \/>\njust watching turtles swim is so relaxing to the mind.  i can&#8217;t believe i use to eat them when i was a kid.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.54.30-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.54.30-PM-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-17 at 2.54.30 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53544\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe water and weather couldn&#8217;t have been any better.  so hard to believe that a 50 minute drive away was like a stormy typhoon day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.54.14-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.54.14-PM-640x358.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-17 at 2.54.14 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53542\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwas pretty impressed on Seigo-san&#8217;s free diving skills.  this is cool!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.53.27-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-17-at-2.53.27-PM-640x380.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-17 at 2.53.27 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53540\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsee the turtle swimming towards Mayuki?  while the 2 boys were in the ocean, i wanted to jump in too.  so i did.  if the news cameras were around, i would be filmed and be called a very bad captain.  it&#8217;s never a good idea to leave a boat with nobody in floating in the ocean.  i do this all the time so i&#8217;m getting use to it.  but on one occasion, the wind picked up one way, and the current picked up the other way.  i almost never made it back to the boat.  if that happened, we would be in big trouble.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 days ago a whale watching catamaran made a pretty bad choice. high surf advisory, building swell, onshore winds? that&#8217;s crazy to even try to go out! anyway, the catamaran went out anyway on the way in to haleiwa harbor, a freak set broke in the channel and hit 5 of the 15 passengers into [&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-53535","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\/53535","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=53535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}