{"id":332,"date":"2008-02-29T03:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2008\/02\/29\/26-feb-2008-%e2%80%93-byron-bay-snorkelling-with-turtles\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:59","slug":"26-feb-2008-byron-bay-snorkelling-with-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"26 Feb 2008 \u2013 Byron Bay Snorkelling with Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday we were booked to go snorkelling. We arrived at 12:30 so that I could get some instruction in the pool, as I had never done this before.<\/p>\n<p>It was then a short drive to the beach and onto the boat for the ride to the island.  There was a rather large swell and was a little scary when low down in the water on a RIB. We arrived at the Island and it was quite choppy. I put on my flippers and mask. Do I really want to jump in? I had second thoughts, and nearly everyone else was already in.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s feet over the side and a quick slide into the water. I go straight under and pop up like a cork. I steady myself and finally look down and start snorkelling.<\/p>\n<p>Where do I look, over here are tiny bright blue fish, over there is shuffle nose ray, no over there is a shark. This way, that way, hey calm down. Look below you, a turtle, cool man.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can relax and take it all in slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike: Tuesday we were booked to go snorkelling. We arrived at 12:30 so that I could get some instruction in the pool, as I had never done this before. It was then a short drive to the beach and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-5m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}