{"id":645,"date":"2008-07-02T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/07\/02\/i-left-my-heart-in-tonga\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T21:06:00","slug":"i-left-my-heart-in-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"I Left My Heart in Tonga&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  5:45am wed. morning.  wow, north shore is going off!!!  looks 3&#8242; with perfect conditions.  town came down a little.  gosh, i surfed bowls yesterday afternoon on the high tide and it was going off.  4&#8242; sets going all the way through with only a few guys out.  perfect bowls&#8230;  today dropped a little but might pick up again as the tide rises again.  sunny skies and waves again around the island.  i&#8217;m out of hea&#8230;.  have a safe and nice day&#8230;.<br \/>\n**it&#8217;s been over 10 years since we went to tonga on a surf trip for a japanese magazine.  till this day, it was by far my worst experience.  the waves?  flat for 2 weeks.  the flies?  everywhere from dawn to dusk.  the price?  expensive, you even have to pay for tap drinking water.  the weather?  hotter than hot.  the accomodations?  not too good.  i don&#8217;t really like to talk bad about resorts and surf camps so i won&#8217;t go there.  but let me just say this, i won&#8217;t go there again&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/tongabeer.jpg\" width=\"489\" height=\"304\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthe beer was pretty good.  well, that&#8217;s the only brand they had&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/aakavatonga.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nwhen in tonga, do as the tongan&#8217;s do.  drink kava&#8230;  yeah, we must have drank 5 kilos or more.  even in the morning.  yeah, there was nothing else to do.  this is photographer yoshiro nakayama and pro surfer taro taniuchi.  two cool guys&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/tongaride.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/tongaride.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthe coolest thing i seen was this ferris wheel.  classic yeah?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/hataffuhut.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis was our living space for 2 straight weeks.  imagine waking up right on the beach for 14 days straight to be greeted by a flat ocean?  that hurted&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/aatongaspider.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/aatongaspider.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nand the worst part about the trip was i had a huge &#8220;boil&#8221; on my rib.  i will never forget the pain i had to go through in the little dirty hospital.  the lady doctor cut me open with a rusted knife and i was screaming like a girl.  the most pain i ever went through in my life.  that sucked.<br \/>\n*anyway, somehow we got enough photos for a 4 page article in surfing world magazine.  taro-san wrote the article and he named it &#8220;I left my heart in Tonga&#8221;&#8230;.  cool title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. 5:45am wed. morning. wow, north shore is going off!!! looks 3&#8242; with perfect conditions. town came down a little. gosh, i surfed bowls yesterday afternoon on the high tide and it was going off. 4&#8242; sets going all the way through with only a few guys out. perfect bowls&#8230; today dropped a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}