{"id":2064,"date":"2021-06-16T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2064-whyalla-cuttles.html"},"modified":"2021-06-16T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:58:00","slug":"whyalla-cuttles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2064-whyalla-cuttles.html","title":{"rendered":"Whyalla Cuttles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2725 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1859-_MG_0202-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLast weekend we made a trip to Whyalla on South Australia\u2019s Spencer Gulf to frolic in the wintry ocean with our Giant Cuttlefish for their seasonal breeding congregation. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis year I was delighted with the numbers, as hundred and hundreds of mating crazed cuttlefish could be found along the shallow coastline west from Port Lowley. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs I have written before, this place is a rare treat for non-divers too with just snorkelling gear needed to completely experience the spectacle. There were in fact some places so shallow you could have stood with a pair of waders and a glass bottomed bucket and still got a good sense of the cuttlefish carry-on.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe got to share this experience with a couple of our dearest friends as well as hopefully making new ones, both human and cephalapod!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Whyalla cuttlefish yet again remind me why I love South Australian diving.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#critters #cuttlefish #diving #giantcuttlefish #marinelife #molluscs #pointlowly #scuba #sepiaapana #southaustralia #stonypoint #sunburst #whyalla #wideangle #cephalapod<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we made a trip to Whyalla on South Australia\u2019s Spencer Gulf to frolic in the wintry ocean with our Giant Cuttlefish for their seasonal breeding congregation. This year I was delighted with the numbers, as hundred and hundreds of mating crazed cuttlefish could be found along the shallow coastline west from Port Lowley. &#8230; <a title=\"Whyalla Cuttles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2064-whyalla-cuttles.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Whyalla Cuttles\">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-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","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=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}