{"id":1217,"date":"2015-02-22T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T06:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1217-babys-gone-a-hunting.html"},"modified":"2015-02-22T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T06:56:47","slug":"babys-gone-a-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1217-babys-gone-a-hunting.html","title":{"rendered":"Baby&#8217;s Gone a Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1742 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1048-_MG_9465.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve said before that Port Noarlunga is underrated as an amazing diving location and last night&#8217;s dive proved again the beauty here.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe got in the water around 11pm but with the 40 degC hot days we have been having it was just like jumping into a warm bath. Feeling pretty relaxed and pretty lazy we dived a very small area below the end of Port Noarlunga Jetty and as it turned out we did not have to go far for all the critter action.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis image shows a juvenile Southern Calamari, <em>Sepioteuthis australis<\/em>, out hunting, one of many we encountered.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe found nudibranchs, bobtail squid, headshield slugs, blue ring octopus, scorpion fish as well as many of the local reef inhabitants in their nocturnal state.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe secret to an awesome Port Noarlunga night dive is to come back off from the reef and dive the sand and sea-grass beds. That&#8217;s where the really interesting critters will be.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Baby&#8217;s Gone a Hunting&#8217; 1\/100 f\/20 ISO320 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I&#8217;ve said before that Port Noarlunga is underrated as an amazing diving location and last night&#8217;s dive proved again the beauty here. We got in the water around 11pm but with the 40 degC hot days we have been having it was just like jumping into a warm bath. Feeling pretty &#8230; <a title=\"Baby&#8217;s Gone a Hunting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1217-babys-gone-a-hunting.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Baby&#8217;s Gone a Hunting\">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-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}