{"id":9436,"date":"2016-01-26T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T06:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9436"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:00:16","slug":"donkeys-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/01\/26\/donkeys-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkeys on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being able to walk into the ocean from the shore with a scuba tank, and then being able to see underwater life that exceeds any aquarium, and being able to do so whenever you feel like it, is a ridiculously excellent way to dive. The morning dive was off of the hotel beach, and the afternoon dive was at the loading pier for the Cargill Salt Works. Everything from eels to stone fish to sea turtles to barracuda to groupers made appearances, along with the ten gazillion other fish that are out here.<\/p>\n

I also pulled the big camera out of the bag and grabbed a few shots of the local iguanas that come begging at the hotel during mealtimes, then made Audrey drive me around looking for flamingos as the sun was going down. I stood near a lagoon waiting for one of the birds to pull his head out from underwater while she made friends with some of the island’s donkeys. Then we came home and ate seafood and chocolate, ’cause that’s how we roll.<\/p>\n

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

Sunset last Saturday on Virgin Gorda<\/a>. This was the view from our room, because I apparently earned a massive number of karma points in a past life.<\/div>\n

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

Iguana begging on the hotel deck. There are three that hang around our place, along with an assorted variety of other lizards and hermit crabs.<\/div>\n

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

Flamingo. A shockingly difficult bird to photograph, even when they’re standing with their head underwater just twenty feet away.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being able to walk into the ocean from the shore with a scuba tank, and then being able to see underwater life that exceeds any aquarium, and being able to do so whenever you feel like it, is a ridiculously excellent way to dive. The morning dive was off of the hotel beach, and the … Continue reading “Donkeys on the Road”<\/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":[46,30],"class_list":["post-9436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-caribbean","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","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=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}