{"id":824,"date":"2016-03-21T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2023-05-16T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:19:25","slug":"swimmin-with-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/swimmin-with-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmin\u2019 with Turtles"},"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>The Caribbean is filled with a wonderful collection of unforgettable critters.\u00a0Drunk monkeys\u00a0in St. Kitts,\u00a0potcake puppies\u00a0in Turks &amp; Caicos and\u00a0swimming pigs\u00a0in the Bahamas. Well, Barbados is no different, \u2018cause they\u2019ve got turtles. Sea turtles.<\/p>\n<p>Barbados is home to a protected and growing population of beautiful hawksbill and leatherback turtles. And these turtles are surprisingly sociable, despite being real homebodies, too. They\u2019re accustomed to their routines and love the humans who come to swim with them around the coral. In fact, local fishermen even feed and care for them and have been know to scrape barnacles off their backs! (Hey, we\u2019d stick around for free spa treatments, too.)<\/p>\n<p>Now if these turtle adventures give you goose bumps, the good news is that Barbados has built a thriving cottage industry around these endangered creatures. There are literally dozens of tours to choose from with unforgettable catamaran trips, including a delicious local lunch, rum punch (the real seller) and, of course, snorkeling with the friendly turtles. But unlike the pigs in the Bahamas, these cute creatures won\u2019t try to jump into your boat. Nope, they\u2019ll just steal your heart.<\/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 The Caribbean is filled with a wonderful collection of unforgettable critters.\u00a0Drunk monkeys\u00a0in [&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-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margaritaville"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}