{"id":63265,"date":"2016-01-09T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=63265"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:11:50","slug":"mantaday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=63265","title":{"rendered":"Mantaday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_4586\"
\njust when you think you seen everything, the ocean proves you wrong. i was diving at sunset time yesterday and it was kind of dark already. i was looking down the whole time trying to adjust my eyes to the fish deep dark down below. after a while, i could feel something coming for me. it was a weird feeling so i look up and see a gigantic manta ray trying to eat me! we came face to face at about 2′! i was staring at it and her wingspan was probably 9′ or 3 meters wide. i felt like a midget. i yelled “OOOOOHHHHMMMYYYGOOOOSHHHH!” then it swam right under me. it was the biggest manta ray i’ve ever seen and also the closest encounter with one in my life. 5 minutes later, i hear Yukochan yelling from the boat “SHARK!!!!” it turned out to be the manta swimming around the boat. Reid threw me his gopro and i started filming. it was incredible! check it out! it was huge!!!
\n\"IMG_4574\"
\nthen we all got on the boat and then we seen another one, then another one, then another one. there were 4 manta rays just circling the boat just swimming calmly by. it was the first time in 8 years diving this spot i had marked on my GPS and there were fish and mantas everywhere. now i can’t wait to go back and hope the mantas are still there!!
\n\"IMG_4540\"
\ntoday is january 8th and i can’t remember the last time we started off a new year with 8 days of picture perfect weather. and i can’t remember the last time i started off the new year spending so much time in the water experiencing so many crazy things. after yesterday, i’m still a little baby when it comes to the ocean. and the cool thing is i want to know more and more about it. please teach me!
\n\"koguma\"
\nwant to thank Koguma-san for the japanese green tea kitkat. half gone already. haha. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

just when you think you seen everything, the ocean proves you wrong. i was diving at sunset time yesterday and it was kind of dark already. i was looking down the whole time trying to adjust my eyes to the fish deep dark down below. after a while, i could feel something coming for me. […]<\/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-63265","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\/63265","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=63265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}