{"id":356,"date":"2011-01-10T01:57:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janandira.com\/wordpress\/?p=356"},"modified":"2011-01-10T01:57:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:57:25","slug":"the-wetsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"The Wetsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is dedicated to the awesome power of a good wetsuit to create opportunities for fun when you would otherwise freeze your bits off! <\/p>\n

When the weather at Beachport wasn’t so good for robster catching, we decided to have a go at surfing. With the help of our trusty wet-suits and some incredibly floaty, long, and stable boards we were able to give it a go … <\/p>\n

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Let’s go Surfin now<\/p>\n

… and give it another go … and another go … until we’d had so much sun and salt-spray we felt preserved like tuna-in-brine.<\/p>\n

In order to rehydrate ourselves we decided to take a nice freshwater swim in Ewen’s ponds where once again the wet-suits transformed an otherwise freezing experience into a leisurely float in a delicious warm cocoon of warmth. The sun was dancing on the bright green of the waterplants, and it felt a bit like a scene from Avatar was we floated through the connections between ponds. If ever there was a time for Jan’s underwater camera to actually be taken underwater this was it … <\/p>\n

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After our little swim we discovered a blue tongue lizard who’d somehow ended up in the ponds, but was in desperate need of a decent wetsuit. An onlooker fished him out and we put him on a sunny rock, and after a few minutes he’d forgotten that we were his rescuers and started flashing his open mouth at us. Pretty ungrateful, but what can you expect from a dinosaur.<\/p>\n

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The Lizard, still half frozen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is dedicated to the awesome power of a good wetsuit to create opportunities for fun when you would otherwise freeze your bits off! When the weather at Beachport wasn’t so good for robster catching, we decided to have a go at surfing. With the help of our trusty wet-suits and some incredibly floaty, long, and stable boards we were able to give it a go … Let’s go Surfin now … and give it another go … and another go … until we’d had so much sun and salt-spray we felt preserved like tuna-in-brine. In order to rehydrate ourselves we decided to take a nice freshwater swim in Ewen’s ponds where once again the wet-suits transformed an otherwise freezing experience into a leisurely float in a delicious warm cocoon of warmth. The sun was dancing on the bright green of the waterplants, and it felt a bit like a scene from Avatar was we floated through the connections between ponds. If ever there was a time for Jan’s underwater camera to actually be taken underwater this was it … After our little swim we discovered a blue tongue lizard who’d somehow ended up in the ponds, but was in desperate need of a decent wetsuit. An onlooker fished him out and we put him on a sunny rock, and after a few minutes he’d forgotten that we were his rescuers and started flashing his open mouth at us. Pretty ungrateful, but what can you expect from a dinosaur. The Lizard, still half frozen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janandira.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}