{"id":15198,"date":"2024-05-22T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=15198"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:55:46","slug":"underwater-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/05\/22\/underwater-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re in Perth for two days in between visits elsewhere, and after sleeping in due to a very late arrival last night we spent most of today catching up on exciting things like laundry and photo editing.  While I&#8217;m sure everyone probably wants to read a recap of our amazing day (I have so many clean clothes now), instead here are a few frames from GoPro video taken during our four days of scuba diving on Christmas Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2024-05-A\/GH010271-christmas-island-giant-trevally.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Trevally, Christmas Island\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">This is what happens when a piece of fish is thrown in the water while you&#8217;re snorkeling and there are ten giant trevally on patrol.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2024-05-A\/GH010188-christmas-island-dolphins.jpg\" alt=\"Dolphins, Christmas Island\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">After 25 years of having dolphins flee the second I jumped in the water, the curse has finally been lifted.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2024-05-A\/GH010289-christmas-island-lionfish.jpg\" alt=\"Lionfish, Christmas Island\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Lionfish in the Caribbean are invasive and causing all kinds of problems, but in their native Indian Ocean they&#8217;re just another pretty fish to enjoy.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2024-05-A\/GH010254-christmas-island-angelfish.jpg\" alt=\"Angelfish, Christmas Island\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Someone better at fish identification than I am can tell me what type of angelfish this is.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in Perth for two days in between visits elsewhere, and after sleeping in due to a very late arrival last night we spent most of today catching up on exciting things like laundry and photo editing. While I&#8217;m sure everyone probably wants to read a recap of our amazing day (I have so many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/05\/22\/underwater-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Underwater Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,78,30],"class_list":["post-15198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2024-walkabout","tag-australia","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15198"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15209,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15198\/revisions\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}