{"id":1613,"date":"2017-01-03T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1613-aquatic-feathers.html"},"modified":"2017-01-04T00:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:37:55","slug":"aquatic-feathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1613-aquatic-feathers.html","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2232 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1445-_MG_6760.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLast night was my first night dive for 2017. In fact it was my first dive for the new year and the conditions were perfect.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe evening star and a waxing crescent moon shone down on the water as we slipped below the surface. To the fishers on Rapid Bay jetty above it must have seemed like some mini apocalypse with our dive lights blazing and strobes firing. To the critters we were diving with most seemed unperturbed by our roving light show though I&#8217;m sure we were asked once or twice to turn our lights down or stop shining them in faces!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDespite the lovely conditions we did not see much variety in critter life so it was a dive to mostly enjoy being underwater again. Hopefully just the first of many for 2017.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne critter I always like seeing and photographing is this feathery looking thing. It is actually a worm called the Southern fan worm <em>Sabellastarte australiensis<\/em>. As those soft feathery appendages wash around in the current and surge you can never be sure just what the camera might capture the instant those strobes fire.<br \/>\n <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Aquatic Feathers&#8217; 1\/160s f\/18 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; Last night was my first night dive for 2017. In fact it was my first dive for the new year and the conditions were perfect. The evening star and a waxing crescent moon shone down on the water as we slipped below the surface. To the fishers on Rapid Bay jetty &#8230; <a title=\"Aquatic Feathers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1613-aquatic-feathers.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aquatic Feathers\">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-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}