{"id":64978,"date":"2016-02-29T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=64978"},"modified":"2016-02-29T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:42:38","slug":"whale-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=64978","title":{"rendered":"Whale Encounter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6527.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6527\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64984\" \/><br \/>\nwent to spend another full day in the ocean.  got out to check the conditions, everything looking good, so decided to go with the flow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6525.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6525\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64982\" \/><br \/>\nfull speed straight out to the blue sea!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6534.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6534\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64989\" \/><br \/>\non the way out, we seen a mother whale and her baby.  they were just playing with each other.  they swam away so we decided to just jump in and snorkel around.  i seen so much fish!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-2.34.17-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-29 at 2.34.17 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64986\" \/><br \/>\n10 minutes later, i hear something very close to me.  i look up and see the biggest mother whale and her baby!  they came to swim with us and my little mermaid couldn&#8217;t believe it!  it&#8217;s her first experience so that was precious!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-2.34.42-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-29 at 2.34.42 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64988\" \/><br \/>\nthen we went for a surf at another secret spot.  another secret spot with nobody out!  we scored again!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6550.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6550\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64987\" \/><br \/>\nsuch a beautiful day.  gosh, i hate to say this, but i kind of miss the rain.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6543.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6543\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64983\" \/><br \/>\nonce again, Takahashi-san told me &#8220;i&#8217;m so happy!&#8221;  and he looked happy catching all those waves, ripping it, and drinking an ice cold beer right after he came out of the water.  i would be too.  and the cool thing is we&#8217;re going to do it all over again tomorrow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6552.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6552\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64985\" \/><br \/>\nwelcome to my wonderful world!  once you enter it, you won&#8217;t want to exit.  haha.  i&#8217;m stuck here for the rest of my life!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-2.36.47-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-29 at 2.36.47 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64991\" \/><br \/>\nthen went to pick up Akane-san for some free diving and surfing lessons.  i took her to my favorite free dive spot.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-2.41.19-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-29 at 2.41.19 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-64992\" \/><br \/>\nand yes, all my friends were waiting for me!  see you guys again tomorrow!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went to spend another full day in the ocean. got out to check the conditions, everything looking good, so decided to go with the flow. full speed straight out to the blue sea! on the way out, we seen a mother whale and her baby. they were just playing with each other. they swam away [&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-64978","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\/64978","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=64978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}