{"id":978,"date":"2014-08-13T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2014-08-13T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:32:07","slug":"palau-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/palau-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Palau 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years Palau has been a dream destination for our dive club \u2013 with more flight options and a better package price this year we finally got to go. 30+ hours of travelling later and still another flight to go we were all hoping it was all worth it.<\/p>\n

24 hours later and heading underwater for the first time we knew it was \u2013 white tip and grey reef sharks, 2 manta rays at the cleaning stations and a 3m hammerhead cruised on past. Not to mention the many schools of snapper, jacks, emperors and other colourful reef fish and lots of coral in great condition.<\/p>\n

\"Manta\"<\/a> \"Manta<\/a> \"White<\/a> \"Grey<\/a> \"Fish\"<\/a> \"Reef\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All the dives were fantastic and varied \u2013 we dived along walls, down through blue holes and along tunnels, drifted down channels and over coral gardens.<\/p>\n

\"Wall<\/a> \"Drifting\"\"Virgin<\/a> \"Siaes<\/a><\/p>\n

We also dived in Chandelier Cave \u2013 complete with stalagmites and air chambers.<\/p>\n

\"Chandelier\"Chandelier<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most insane dives was the world renowned \u2018Blue Corner\u2019 where we hooked ourselves onto the reef in current & surge to watch the sharks and schools of fish hanging off the point. We were also visited by 2 large Napoleon Wrasse.<\/p>\n

\"Hooked\"<\/a> \"Shark\"<\/a> \"Napolean<\/a> \"Hooked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Claire had heard that there were Mandarin Fish along the wall in front of the dive operation so spent a quiet hour cruising along and found 4 mandarin fish, several pipefish and some very territorial damsel and angel fish.<\/p>\n

\"Angel<\/a> \"Mandarin<\/a><\/p>\n

We also went for a snorkel in the world famous Jellyfish Lake \u2013 with 100\u2019s of stingless jellies!<\/p>\n

\"Jellyfish<\/a> \"Jelly!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and so our trip was over and it was time to take the many flights back home to Wellington<\/p>\n

\"Sam's\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We would all head back \u2013 the diving was fantastic, the dive operator\u2019s organised and informative, the accommodation basic but comfy and the food tasty and reasonably priced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years Palau has been a dream destination for our dive club \u2013 with more flight options and a better package price this year we finally got to go. 30+ hours of travelling later and still another flight to go we were all hoping it was all worth it. 24 hours later and heading underwater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-event","category-dive-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}