{"id":18142,"date":"2009-08-10T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18142"},"modified":"2009-08-14T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T17:21:06","slug":"snorkel-10-top-spots-to-snorkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18142","title":{"rendered":"Travel Snorkel &#8211; 10 top spots to snorkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Dean&#8217;s Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A blue hole is created when the ceiling to an ancient cave system collapses in the ocean &#8212; Dean&#8217;s is thought to be the world&#8217;s deepest. Fin your way off the powder-white beach and watch the sand go from 5 to more than 600 feet deep in just a few kicks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On-site secret: I found I could circumnavigate the entire blue hole by swimming along the cliff base and sandy shoals. On a light-wind day, it&#8217;s easy to snorkel the protective reef near the mouth of the small bay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep an eye out for: jacks, tarpon, turtles, the occasional dolphin or porpoise &#8212; almost anything can wander in. Small reef fish &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Dean&#8217;s Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas A blue hole is created when the ceiling to an ancient cave system collapses in the ocean &#8212; Dean&#8217;s is thought to be the world&#8217;s deepest. Fin your way off the powder-white beach and watch the sand go from 5 to more than 600 feet deep in just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scuba-diving-snorkeling","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18638,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions\/18638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}