{"id":876,"date":"2009-03-07T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2009-03-07T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:15:40","slug":"brilliant-snorkeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant snorkeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I had the opportunity to do some snorkeling ; something I really enjoy and that I should really do more of.\u00a0 Cayman is the ideal place to do this activity : the water is super clear, many coral reefs are easily accessible and even if you swim far from shore, there are rarely currents to pull you out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>My guests who are staying with us both brought underwater cameras ; amazing!\u00a0 I should have got one one those a long time ago.\u00a0 We had a great time taking pictures during this snorkel.<\/p>\n<p>From about 10ft away, you can see how clear the water is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-884\" title=\"n667071279_2700557_7262395\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700557_7262395.jpg\" alt=\"n667071279_2700557_7262395\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700557_7262395.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700557_7262395-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Genevieve, Julie&#8217;s friend.\u00a0 My snorkel companion for the day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" title=\"n668521521_2241624_1287659-1\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n668521521_2241624_1287659-1.jpg\" alt=\"n668521521_2241624_1287659-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n668521521_2241624_1287659-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n668521521_2241624_1287659-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very pretty sea fan<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-887\" title=\"n667071279_2700577_4034950\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700577_4034950.jpg\" alt=\"n667071279_2700577_4034950\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700577_4034950.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700577_4034950-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very colorful parrot fish.\u00a0 I was impressed at how well the colors came out in this picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-888\" title=\"n667071279_2700578_2899787\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700578_2899787.jpg\" alt=\"n667071279_2700578_2899787\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700578_2899787.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700578_2899787-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A school of about 15 Tarpon&#8217;s.\u00a0 Its difficult to tell, but these fish are about 3.5 &#8211; 5ft long each. It was quite a sight from a distance to see the large fish just &#8220;hanging around&#8221;.\u00a0 Could be quite scary for someone who does not know that they are 100% harmless to human.\u00a0 They could easily be mistaken for sharks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-886\" title=\"n667071279_2700575_200885\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700575_200885.jpg\" alt=\"n667071279_2700575_200885\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700575_200885.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700575_200885-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Probably the prettiest fish we saw. I think this is a &#8220;coral beauty&#8221;, but not sure.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures were all taken at Smith Cove. Most of the time we were 80-100 meters from the shore and way beyond the &#8220;standard&#8221; swim zone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-889\" title=\"n667071279_2700613_2265119\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700613_2265119.jpg\" alt=\"n667071279_2700613_2265119\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700613_2265119.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n667071279_2700613_2265119-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I had the opportunity to do some snorkeling ; something I really enjoy and that I should really do more of.\u00a0 Cayman is the ideal place to do this activity : the water is super clear, many coral reefs are easily accessible and even if you swim far from shore, there [&hellip;]<\/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-876","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\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}