{"id":2373,"date":"2026-01-05T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2373-the-edible-gardener.html"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:34:00","slug":"the-edible-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2373-the-edible-gardener.html","title":{"rendered":"The Edible Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:3042 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/162-_G2A5840-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis morning I had to thaw my frozen weight belt off the bench, knock the icicle stalactites off my buoyancy harness and de-ice the car before heading off for today&#8217;s dive on Lemontounagher Rock (Lom\u00e1n tSamhnach), near Puffin Island, Co Kerry.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDespite the cold, the sea was calm, the surface conditions perfect for diving \u2013 and I really enjoy the <br \/>\ncamaraderie of sharing the icy conditions with like-minded, adventurous divers.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLemontounagher Rock has spectacular walls and ravines covered in dahlia and jewel anemones, and it was the inspiration behind the image title: a brown\/edible crab (Cancer pagurus), tending a garden of dahlias (Urticina felina).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is my second Irish winter dive of the year. Yes, I got cold \u2013 very cold \u2013 and I ended my day out washing my dive gear outside in the falling snow. But despite the ardour of it sometimes, it always brings a smile to my face.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#BrownCrab #EdibleCrab #LemontounagherRock #CountyKerry #Ireland #winter #scuba #diving #DahliaAnemones #JewelAnemones<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had to thaw my frozen weight belt off the bench, knock the icicle stalactites off my buoyancy harness and de-ice the car before heading off for today&#8217;s dive on Lemontounagher Rock (Lom\u00e1n tSamhnach), near Puffin Island, Co Kerry. Despite the cold, the sea was calm, the surface conditions perfect for diving \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"The Edible Gardener\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2373-the-edible-gardener.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Edible Gardener\">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-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","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=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}