{"id":58,"date":"2007-05-20T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/58-a-very-special-day-rachaels-dragons.html"},"modified":"2007-05-26T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T06:18:23","slug":"a-very-special-day-rachaels-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/58-a-very-special-day-rachaels-dragons.html","title":{"rendered":"A Very Special Day, “Rachael’s Dragons”"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"Every once in a while someone very special comes along who reminds us how wonderful our world is and how dreams really do come true when you desire and believe. Little 13-year-old Rachael from California is someone who came into my world and did just that.
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\nWhen she was 12, Rachael first met a Leafy Seadragon at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. A couple of months later they were gone and that day Rachael made a decision to learn to dive so she could see them for herself where they live here in Southern Australia. Rachael had already overcome quite a few obstacles in her life and she took on this new adventure with 100% conviction.
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\nIn January, Rachael certified as a Junior Open Water Diver. Last week, Jennifer and I took her for her long-awaited dive with the “Dragons”. It was a wonderful experience getting to meet Rachael and her mum Susie. The weather stayed calm and the visibility was not too bad at around 3-4m. In all Rachael saw between four and five Dragons on her epic dive – but nothing will ever top the look in Rachael’s eyes when that very first Leafy Seadragon came into view.
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\nUntil the next post, take care out there, keep diving ( if that’s what you do! ) and remember that dreams REALLY DO come true …Robert \ud83d\ude42
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\nPhoto: Robert Rath C5060 1\/90s at f\/2.8 ISO100 Lens UWL100-28AD, Inon D2000 Strobe and Natural Light<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while someone very special comes along who reminds us how wonderful our world is and how dreams really do come true when you desire and believe. Little 13-year-old Rachael from California is someone who came into my world and did just that. When she was 12, Rachael first met a Leafy … 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-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}