{"id":71852,"date":"2016-10-02T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=71852"},"modified":"2016-10-02T05:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:33:42","slug":"another-close-encounter-with-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=71852","title":{"rendered":"Another Close Encounter with Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.29.08-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-29-08-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71857\" \/><br \/>\nyesterday was a big challenge for Rikita-san and Toshimi-san.  they both wanted to learn how to cutback and after a few visual lessons  on the beach, they were doing cutbacks.  yes, it&#8217;s that easy!  Toshimi-san never thought she could short board, but here she is short boarding!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.26.43-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-26-43-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71861\" \/><br \/>\nRikita-san caught some nice ones early in the morning.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.27.20-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-27-20-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71859\" \/><br \/>\nand yes, this is how you do a cutback!  perfect!!!  i could tell how stoked Rikita-san was after he completed his first cutback.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.25.04-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-25-04-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71855\" \/><br \/>\nmore waves, more stoke!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.31.31-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-31-31-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71856\" \/><br \/>\nhappy shakas for happy surfers.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.25.36-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-25-36-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71860\" \/><br \/>\neveryday there&#8217;s been rainbows.  makes everyone so happy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.31.05-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-31-05-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71863\" \/><br \/>\nthen a rare sighting of a hawaiian monk seal.  came pretty close to Rikita-san!  so stoked to see this almost extinct seal coming back strong.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.30.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-30-19-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71862\" \/><br \/>\nif you see one of these while you&#8217;re in the ocean, you can say you&#8217;re pretty lucky.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.31.50-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-31-50-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71865\" \/><br \/>\nthe west side was so hot!  33 degrees C and super strong sun rays.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-11.32.06-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-11-32-06-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-71858\" \/><br \/>\nbut a definite must see place to visit.  just be careful for somebody stealing your car when you go out to take a photo.  haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday was a big challenge for Rikita-san and Toshimi-san. they both wanted to learn how to cutback and after a few visual lessons on the beach, they were doing cutbacks. yes, it&#8217;s that easy! Toshimi-san never thought she could short board, but here she is short boarding! Rikita-san caught some nice ones early in the [&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-71852","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\/71852","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=71852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}