{"id":25,"date":"2008-01-22T19:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T08:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/rum-runner\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T20:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T09:11:15","slug":"rum-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/rum-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rum Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up at the crack of dawn to head down to the marina to catch our boat, the Rum Runner.  Had to wait for the hostel to open up, and then a mad jaunt down to the esplanade.<\/p>\n<p>Managed on board with a bit of time to spare, and settled into our bunks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2090\/2213453613_b072bbc419.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_1809\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Took about 3 hours to head to get to the reef, where we did some snorkelling.  Not so great conditions.  Still able to see a fair bit, but not without getting some salt water into the snorkel.  After a bit of time we headed to another reef, and snorkeled there.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the evening on the boat with a good group and crew.  Crystal was our hostess\/cook, and did an excellent job, then Karl, J.P and Lee.  Group was divided among some Canadians (Vancouver), Rainy and Nicole; Mark from Alaska; David from Columbia; a bunch of English folks, Chloe, Katie, Simone, Natalie, Geoff and Wendy; plus two Swiss, Simon and Angela.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2345\/2213454567_107f27240b.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_1810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Evening was spent with some guitar played by the Captain, and general socializing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up at the crack of dawn to head down to the marina to catch our boat, the Rum Runner. Had to wait for the hostel to open up, and then a mad jaunt down to the esplanade. Managed on board with a bit of time to spare, and settled into our bunks. Took about 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/rum-runner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rum Runner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cairns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}