{"id":18631,"date":"2016-04-30T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=18631"},"modified":"2016-04-26T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T03:30:19","slug":"snorkeling-in-raiatea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/18631","title":{"rendered":"Snorkeling in Raiatea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went snorkeling in Raiatea, although snorkeling was not officially part of the excursion I was on. The time was scheduled as a beach break on a public motu. My guide told me there wasn’t much to see snorkeling. As it turned out, I saw plenty, including schools of Yellowfin Goatfish which, apparently, can change their color to pink.<\/p>\n

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The Public Motu<\/p><\/div>\n

SOURCE: The Public Motu (Raiatea, French Polynesia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 09 April 2016.<\/p>\n

\"Surge<\/a>

Surge Damselfish (Chrysiptera brownriggii<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

SOURCE: Surge Damselfish (Chrysiptera brownriggii<\/em>) (Raiatea, French Polynesia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 09 April 2016.<\/p>\n

\"Yellowfin<\/a>

Yellowfin Goatfish (Mulloides vanicolensis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

SOURCE: Yellowfin Goatfish (Mulloides vanicolensis<\/em>) (Raiatea, French Polynesia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 09 April 2016.<\/p>\n

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Yellowfin Goatfish (Mulloides vanicolensis<\/em>) Pink Shade<\/p><\/div>\n

SOURCE: Yellowfin Goatfish (Mulloides vanicolensis<\/em>) Pink Shade\u00c2\u00a0(Raiatea, French Polynesia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 09 April 2016.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went snorkeling in Raiatea, although snorkeling was not officially part of the excursion I was on. The time was scheduled as a beach break on a public motu. My guide told me there wasn’t much to see snorkeling. As … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-18631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-french-polynesia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-4Qv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18641,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions\/18641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}