{"id":1203,"date":"2015-02-06T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T07:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1203-sponge-trees.html"},"modified":"2015-02-06T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T07:14:45","slug":"sponge-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1203-sponge-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"Sponge Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1719 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1034-_MG_6295.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nScenes like this are one of Rapid Bay&#8217;s major attractions and much easier to experience than finding Leafy Seadragons or nudibranchs.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere in the &#8216;T-Section&#8217; of the old jetty you can drift between the sponge encrusted tree-like pylons and look up at schools of Old Wives, Yellowtail, Bullseyes and Leatherjackets.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn a clear day like this there is no better shore dive within a couple hours drive of Adelaide. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn poor visibility days its best to just go hunting for Leafy Seadragons and Nudibranchs.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Sponge Trees&#8217;, 1\/125s f\/7.1 ISO320 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Scenes like this are one of Rapid Bay&#8217;s major attractions and much easier to experience than finding Leafy Seadragons or nudibranchs. Here in the &#8216;T-Section&#8217; of the old jetty you can drift between the sponge encrusted tree-like pylons and look up at schools of Old Wives, Yellowtail, Bullseyes and Leatherjackets. On &#8230; <a title=\"Sponge Trees\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1203-sponge-trees.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sponge Trees\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}