{"id":770,"date":"2016-02-16T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:00:52","slug":"bucket-list-the-many-shipwrecks-of-martinique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/bucket-list-the-many-shipwrecks-of-martinique\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucket List: The Many Shipwrecks of Martinique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In 2015, I launched a blog for Margaritaville.com. As is my norm, I wrote the early mini-posts as examples of what their content approach and voice should be: light, fun and worthy of being shared from a barstool whilst sipping a margarita.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe island of never-ending summer.\u201d Not a bad tagline for an island. Especially one that holds as many treasures as Martinique.<\/p>\n<p>First sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1493, Martinique is 80\u00b0F\u00a0all the time. The ocean\u00a0also has visibility of up to 100 feet, and we can\u2019t even imagine what we might see in the depths, especially in St. Pierre Bay, which offers some pretty stunning dives.\u00a0Even more exciting, there are\u00a0<b>12 shipwrecks<\/b>\u00a0(yes, 12) to explore beneath the waves. Divers who get as far as the Gabrielle, a three-masted ship, still surface with pieces of fine china! Souvenirs for the fam, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Not a scuba diver? No problem! Even snorkelers can enjoy the shipwrecks \u2014 some lie as shallow as 30 feet, like the Raisinier. You\u2019ll still see a crazy shipwreck and tons of colorful fish.<\/p>\n<p>Shipwrecks aren\u2019t the only attractions to make Martinique bucket-list worthy. Diamond Rock, three kilometers off the coast of Martinique, is legendary for being registered as the HMS Diamond Rock by the British Royal Navy. You read that right. In 1804, a volcanic island was officially commissioned during the Napoleonic wars as a \u201csloop of war,\u201d\u00a0a warship with a single gun deck carrying up to eighteen guns.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s not forget what\u2019s really important\u2026 Martinique has 14 beautiful beaches to choose from. So if shipwrecks and volcanic islands aren\u2019t your ideal vacay, hit the beach of your choice and enjoy a\u00a0Ti\u2019 Punch, the national drink of Martinique.<\/p>\n<p>What better treasure could you discover than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, I launched a blog for Margaritaville.com. As is my norm, I wrote the early mini-posts as examples of what their content approach and voice should be: light, fun and worthy of being shared from a barstool whilst sipping a margarita. \u2014 \u201cThe island of never-ending summer.\u201d Not a bad tagline for an island. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margaritaville"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}