{"id":3111,"date":"2016-04-01T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T11:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2016-04-01T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T11:57:42","slug":"times-are-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Times are changing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent government decision has left many locals and tourists alike scratching their heads!<\/p>\n

In a recent legislative assembly decision, the leader of the Government, Mr. Bob S. Bodden tabled a motion to render many of Cayman beaches inaccessible \u00a0to snorkelers. \u00a0This is due to recent damage to coral reefs, notably by a Cruise ship and also by a luxury yacht. \u00a0It is believed that further damage can be avoided by limiting snorkeling activity at some of the main snorkeling areas.<\/p>\n

Signs were quickly put up. \u00a0Here we can see one at Eden Rock. \u00a0When I went, the notice did seem to get little respect since there were plenty of people snorkeling. \u00a0As of right now, I am told that people will get a warning, no fines are being issued in the first weeks. \u00a0Fines will be in the 50 Cayman Pesos range for the first offence.<\/p>\n

\"snorkle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the sign at Spotts beach – my favorite spot to snorkel with the turtles.<\/p>\n

\"snorkle2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So there you have it! \u00a0But there is some good news from all of this. \u00a0 There is an extraordinary legislative assembly hearing soon. \u00a0The opposition party, the Republican-Socialists Party aim to have this overturned.<\/p>\n

We should find out if they are successful no later than on April Fools day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent government decision has left many locals and tourists alike scratching their heads! In a recent legislative assembly decision, the leader of the Government, Mr. Bob S. Bodden tabled a motion to render many of Cayman beaches inaccessible \u00a0to snorkelers. \u00a0This is due to recent damage to coral reefs, notably by a Cruise ship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}