{"id":43,"date":"2008-08-21T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T10:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2013-04-01T04:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:34:20","slug":"snorkeling-and-soaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/snorkeling-and-soaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkeling and Soaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">July 15, 2008<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Our second day of explorations in the Calamians took us to a protected zone for snorkeling and then to the hot springs on Busuanga Island.\u00a0 First, we went to the Siete Pecados, or Siete Picados (perhaps the Filipino version of the Spanish Siete Pecados, which means Seven Sins).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44\" title=\"pict8982\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8982.jpg\" alt=\"Even Aliciya wanted to try out snorkeling\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8982.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8982-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even Aliciya wanted to try out snorkeling<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Everybody had a good time swimming around exploring the reef.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46\" title=\"pict8983\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8983.jpg\" alt=\"Christina and Alexandra\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8983.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8983-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina and Alexandra<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47\" title=\"pict8984\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8984.jpg\" alt=\"All of us\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8984.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8984-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All of us<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8987.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48\" title=\"pict8987\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8987.jpg\" alt=\"William may be our champion snorkeler\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8987.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8987-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William may be our champion snorkeler<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the afternoon we went to the Makinit Hot Springs for a short soak in the hot saltwater. It really is quite hot, and we did not last long in the water, but it was a very nice stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50\" title=\"pict8989\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8989.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8989.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8989-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51\" title=\"pict8998\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8998.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict8998-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we went back to Dive Link that afternoon, everybody spent some time picking over the sea shells that had been left on the shore as the tide receded. I caught Christina looking up at me from the beach below as I watched them from the Pier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict9107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict9107.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pict9107\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict9107.jpg 640w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pict9107-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2008 \u00a0Our second day of explorations in the Calamians took us to a protected zone for snorkeling and then to the hot springs on Busuanga Island.\u00a0 First, we went to the Siete Pecados, or Siete Picados (perhaps the Filipino version of the Spanish Siete Pecados, which means Seven Sins). 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