{"id":1349,"date":"2015-08-26T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1349-right-under-their-feet.html"},"modified":"2015-08-26T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:37:12","slug":"right-under-their-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1349-right-under-their-feet.html","title":{"rendered":"Right Under their Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1890 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1181-_MG_9866.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the end of a Rapid Bay dive and as all well executed dive plans end, another slow safe ascent back up to the entry point.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nExcept this time I spent a little while under the entry platform and it is a microcosm teaming with life.<br \/>\nHard coral&#8217;s, sponges, snails, crabs, blennies and gobies all in 50cm of water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt is a little disconcerting that every time I breath out my bubbles go everywhere chasing critters back into their hiding places however there is plenty to see here right under the feet of other divers just entering the water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCastelnau&#8217;s Goby, <em>Nesogobius pulchellus<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Right Under their Feet&#8217; 1\/200s f\/22 ISO100 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; It&#8217;s the end of a Rapid Bay dive and as all well executed dive plans end, another slow safe ascent back up to the entry point. Except this time I spent a little while under the entry platform and it is a microcosm teaming with life. Hard coral&#8217;s, sponges, snails, crabs, &#8230; <a title=\"Right Under their Feet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1349-right-under-their-feet.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Right Under their Feet\">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-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}