{"id":56172,"date":"2015-05-21T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=56172"},"modified":"2015-05-21T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T09:45:08","slug":"taape-or-blue-lined-snapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=56172","title":{"rendered":"Taape or &quot;Blue-Lined Snapper&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, the waves have been so tiny recently.  but i wanted to surf so bad so i paddled out this evening to bowls at 5pm.  super tiny but still fun.  then right at sunset time, the swell arrived and there were solid chest high perfect waves coming in!  only 3 guys out, super orange sunset, and perfect long bowls lefts.  i caught 8 waves in 1 hour and was by far my best session in a while.  paddled in at dark to the lights of waikiki.  score!!!!  swells is here to expect bigger waves and thousands of surfers tomorrow.  see you out there!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6663.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6663-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6663\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56176\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwant to thank Yumi-chan for the japanese tea.  i just love the presentation in everything the japanese package.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tajima.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tajima-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"tajima\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56179\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nalso want to thank Tajima-san for the japanese KitKat.  all are in my stomach already.  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6751-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6751\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56177\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nstill don&#8217;t know what Brandon did with the pig.  hope he didn&#8217;t bbq him already.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6774-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6774\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nbeen hanging out with Kimura-san and Hayato.  two cool surfers and two very important people in my life.  throughout all these years, we have thousands of precious memories, and millions more to come.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6819.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6819-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6819\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56175\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n100&#8242; deep blue water with turtles everywhere.  turtles that will swim right up to you and look you in the eye.  nature at it&#8217;s finest.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6802.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6802-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6802\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56173\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nalways stoked to hang around Kimura-san.  we have so much fun teasing each other.  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6805.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6805-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6805\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56174\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand nobody beats his facial expressions.  pure stoke!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6834.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6834-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6834\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56178\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ncaught lots of fish yesterday.  these are called &#8220;taape&#8221; and is an invasive species.  these blue-lined snapper were released in the 1950&#8217;s in hawaii waters.  turned out they were eating the eggs of many prized fish.  now we don&#8217;t want them but it&#8217;s too late  there are thousands of them everywhere.  so the more out of the water is better for us.  and also great eating fish!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/REF_6043.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/REF_6043-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"REF_6043\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56181\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nstoked to see Keith scoring epic waves off the last 2 typhoons in taiwan.  can&#8217;t wait to go back there again for the great surf and delicious food.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, the waves have been so tiny recently. but i wanted to surf so bad so i paddled out this evening to bowls at 5pm. super tiny but still fun. then right at sunset time, the swell arrived and there were solid chest high perfect waves coming in! only 3 guys out, super orange sunset, [&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":["post-56172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56172","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=56172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}