{"id":67305,"date":"2016-05-09T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=67305"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T06:16:23","slug":"turtle-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=67305","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Trauma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9268.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9268\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67311\" \/><br \/>\nanother beautiful day in paradise.  super good surf and waves for every level of surfing.  headed out with Mai-san this morning.  stopped by bowls to check out the action.  looked pretty fun, but way to crowded for us.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9280.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9280\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67317\" \/><br \/>\ngosh, it was so beautiful!  went looking for a perfect shoulder high wave for us and found one with nobody out.  so lucky to surf with nobody else on a sunday.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-11.39.15-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 11.39.15 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67325\" \/><br \/>\nthis is Mai-san&#8217;s first wave ever in hawaii!  perfect take off!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-11.40.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 11.40.19 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67308\" \/><br \/>\nthen she put the board on the rail and rode the perfect point right hander.  gosh, her first wave was so perfect!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-11.41.15-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 11.41.15 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67315\" \/><br \/>\ngood ride so she was stoked!  i can&#8217;t believe Mai-san only surfed for 3 years.  she must have some good teachers back in Akita, Japan.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9275.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9275\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67319\" \/><br \/>\na smile like this says it all.  so happy!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9286.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9286\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67306\" \/><br \/>\nthen we went looking for turtles because she&#8217;s never seen one before.  and guess what?  they were home!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9298.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9298\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67326\" \/><br \/>\nit must be a trip to see a turtle for the first time yeah?  i remember the first time i seen a turtle.  my step father brought it home alive in a bag,  cut the head off, cleaned the meat, and cooked it for us for dinner.  i was only 7 years old so imagine how traumatized i was.  maybe that&#8217;s why i love to see turtles swimming so freely now?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-11.42.29-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 11.42.29 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67309\" \/><br \/>\nate a poke bowl for lunch.  Mai-san asked me if ahi is called &#8220;sea chicken&#8221; in english.  haha.   after the laughs, we headed to the east side to check out the surf and nature.  it was so beautiful today.  thank you Mai-san for the wonderful day!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9311.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9311\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67323\" \/><br \/>\nwatching bowls from the channel is the best.  you can see deep into the barrel and see the expressions on the surfers face.  everybody is so stoked the first real swell was a really good one.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_9379.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9379\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-67313\" \/><br \/>\nwe went to check out diamond head on the way back and the waves were so beautiful!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>another beautiful day in paradise. super good surf and waves for every level of surfing. headed out with Mai-san this morning. stopped by bowls to check out the action. looked pretty fun, but way to crowded for us. gosh, it was so beautiful! went looking for a perfect shoulder high wave for us and found [&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-67305","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\/67305","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=67305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}