{"id":1276,"date":"2009-10-30T21:09:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2009-10-30T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:18:22","slug":"friday-30th-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 30th October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Essential gear.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/301009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Today may be the last hot (27C) and sunny day and although Geoff was keen to go flying, we had no playmates and I didn&#8217;t want to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&amp;mylong=2.612554&amp;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a> (we&#8217;ll be spending plenty of time there in the depth of winter). I&#8217;ve been wanting to go snorkeling for weeks and today was the day. We headed off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.244128&amp;mylong=3.225994&amp;mytext=Where we go snorkeling\" target=\"_blank\">bay<\/a> near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.261955&amp;mylong=3.174644&amp;mytext=The beach at Roses. Click on the maximise button to see a video of the beach at Roses.&amp;myvideo=roses.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Roses<\/a> and climbed down the path laden with gear &#8211; canoe, snorkeling stuff, books, towels, picnic, etc. To our amazement, there were lots of people there. Normally when we go there it&#8217;s deserted. We pumped up the canoe and I paddled out to the island off the shore and across to the cove. It was brilliant being out on the sea. I paddled back and gave Geoff a go while I got my snorkel and went to look at the fish. I saw about 11 different varieties. Mostly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cydive.com\/content\/diving\/list-of-mediterranean-fish\" target=\"_blank\">saddled bream, black tailed wrasse, cow bream and rainbow wrasse<\/a>. The water was lovely and warm enough even for Geoff to go in and stay in for a good snorkel about.<\/p>\n<p>We dried off lying about on the shore reading our books and then went in for another go. We&#8217;ve discovered we can use the canoe as a two-man job by me lying on the front, so Geoff paddled me around the bay while I sunbathed.<\/p>\n<p>I had a quick look at the blog for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=245\" target=\"_blank\">this day last year<\/a>. What a contrast!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/301009\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today may be the last hot (27C) and sunny day and although Geoff was keen to go flying, we had no playmates and I didn&#8217;t want to go to Santa Brigida (we&#8217;ll be spending plenty of time there in the depth of winter). I&#8217;ve been wanting to go snorkeling for weeks and today was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}