{"id":54,"date":"2008-01-12T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/12\/darn-boats\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T09:00:03","slug":"darn-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/12\/darn-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Darn Boats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lifeblogimage\"><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgw4N2PQ.jpg\" alt=\"imgw4N2PQ.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The morning greeted us with a fine day for messing about on the river, so that&#8217;s what we did. Motoring out around the islands and past the oyster farms was a treat, topped off by spotting a couple of dolphins frolicking in the bay. Mooring the damn thing was a different matter. Approaching our selected beach, I cut the engine and hoped to drift to the shore, but the tidal current had other ideas and we drifted towards another boat. With not a thought for the clothes I was wearing, or the wallet in my pocket, I jumped into the water of unknown depth and fell backwards. With only my pride dented, shorts and content wet, the boat was on the shore. Pity it kept drifting off in the current.<br \/>\nThe next stop was much more like it, easily moored up, pelicans nearby and a rope swing over the water, my faith in boating was semi-restored.<br \/>\nFinally, and I don&#8217;t mean to go on about the mozzies, but they seem to be attracted to repellent and are literally biting through clothes to get to the skin, I mean what are we meant to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning greeted us with a fine day for messing about on the river, so that&#8217;s what we did. Motoring out around the islands and past the oyster farms was a treat, topped off by spotting a couple of dolphins frolicking in the bay. Mooring the damn thing was a different matter. Approaching our selected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/12\/darn-boats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Darn Boats!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}