{"id":2335,"date":"2025-08-20T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2335-playtime-on-little-skellig.html"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:56:00","slug":"playtime-on-little-skellig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2335-playtime-on-little-skellig.html","title":{"rendered":"Playtime on Little Skellig"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:3004 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/124-_MG_5784-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA playful greeting from a grey seal welcomed us as we arrived at our Little Skellig dive site, an experience that stood in sharp contrast to the grim events of 1809, when the full-rigged ship Lady Nelson was wrecked here. Of her crew, only two survived while twenty-five souls were lost.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDuring our dive we were repeatedly \u201cbuzzed\u201d by two of these enormous grey seals. Their curiosity drew them close, yet their caution kept them just beyond camera range. It was a magical, slightly mischievous encounter that reminded us we are guests in their underwater world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLittle remains of the Lady Nelson after more than two centuries. A few scattered iron cannons lie on the rocky seabed, the last enduring traces of the ship, survivors themselves of both time and plunder.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDiving in places of such natural beauty, yet shadowed by tragedy, is a humbling experience. It reminds us never to take for granted the power of the sea, nor the privilege of being able to explore it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#littleskellig #scuba #diving #kerry #underwater #seals #greyseal #ireland #skelligs #ladynelson #shipwreck<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A playful greeting from a grey seal welcomed us as we arrived at our Little Skellig dive site, an experience that stood in sharp contrast to the grim events of 1809, when the full-rigged ship Lady Nelson was wrecked here. Of her crew, only two survived while twenty-five souls were lost. During our dive we &#8230; <a title=\"Playtime on Little Skellig\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2335-playtime-on-little-skellig.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Playtime on Little Skellig\">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-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}