{"id":76642,"date":"2017-03-02T05:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=76642"},"modified":"2017-03-02T05:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:55:20","slug":"shark-bite-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=76642","title":{"rendered":"Shark Bite Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-9.41.41-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 9.41.41 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76649\" \/><\/p>\n<p>still can&#8217;t believe how good the waves were at Laniakea.  absolutely perfect direction and conditions.  score!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-9.39.15-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 9.39.15 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kunitake-san is a very energetic surfer.  he&#8217;s traveled to Mentawai, Mexico, and other spots around the world.  so before we paddled out, i told him &#8220;all those places you surfed are different than Hawaii.  Hawaii has way more power so be ready!&#8221;  and once he felt the power of the ocean, he said &#8220;omg, so much power!&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-9.43.56-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 9.43.56 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76644\" \/><\/p>\n<p>we were surfing on the side all to ourselves.  just staying away from everybody and enjoying wave after wave.  look how perfect this wave is!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-9.42.38-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 9.42.38 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>had some barrels too.  i was riding behind yelling &#8220;pull in!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-9.43.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 9.43.19 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76648\" \/><\/p>\n<p>seen this turtle cruising right by me all morning.  he kept on coming up to take a breath.  seemed like he was trying to say something.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-9.43.40-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 9.43.40 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76647\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then when i came home and downloaded this photo, i realized he didn&#8217;t have an arm???  omg, guess what bit it off?  yes, Jaws!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0349.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0349\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76646\" \/><\/p>\n<p>after we came in, Kunitake-san took photos of his first Hawaiian North Shore experience.  a great one indeed!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0357.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0357\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-76643\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we came back to town and looked at Diamond Head.  no thank you, forget it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>still can&#8217;t believe how good the waves were at Laniakea. absolutely perfect direction and conditions. score! Kunitake-san is a very energetic surfer. he&#8217;s traveled to Mentawai, Mexico, and other spots around the world. so before we paddled out, i told him &#8220;all those places you surfed are different than Hawaii. Hawaii has way more power [&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-76642","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\/76642","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=76642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}