{"id":95551,"date":"2018-10-28T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T07:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=95551"},"modified":"2018-10-28T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T07:05:20","slug":"top-gun-japan-clear-water-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=95551","title":{"rendered":"Top Gun Japan:  Clear Water Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95558\" \/><br \/>\nthe college girls are in town so took them out for a SUP session.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95557\" \/><br \/>\nand it couldn&#8217;t have been a better day for SUP&#8217;ing!  so beautiful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-28-at-2.21.10-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95559\" \/><br \/>\ncan you believe this is a man-made island?  yes, you can find it right in the middle of the Hilton Lagoon.   all the beautiful photos from today coming soon&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-27-at-5.02.52-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95552\" \/><br \/>\nbut first, wanted to share with you how clean the water in Okinawa is.  you don&#8217;t even need a mask!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-27-at-5.02.14-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95553\" \/><br \/>\nsuper good time with Carter.  just going with the flow of the sparerib soba, and Orion beers&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-27-at-5.03.05-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"749\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95556\" \/><br \/>\nhappy to have gotten to foil a little.  it&#8217;s crazy the feeling you can get by the smallest wave&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-27-at-5.05.19-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95555\" \/><br \/>\nborrowing somebody else&#8217;s foil is scary because you never know how it&#8217;s going to pop up on your first wave.  this is where you have to be confident and keep freaking calm.  that&#8217;s the same facial expression i have on a 15&#8242; wave on the North Shore.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-27-at-5.04.00-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"767\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95554\" \/><br \/>\nwatching the fighter jets one by one all day long land at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.  thinking about Top Gun the whole time.  then i go to a bar the next night and a friend introduces me to a Private Jet pilot.  i say &#8220;wow, that&#8217;s so cool!  just like Top Gun.&#8221;  then he says &#8220;yeah, after i saw Top Gun, i had to become a pilot.&#8221;  omg, that&#8217;s crazy!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the college girls are in town so took them out for a SUP session. and it couldn&#8217;t have been a better day for SUP&#8217;ing! so beautiful! can you believe this is a man-made island? 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