{"id":924,"date":"2017-07-06T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:34:47","slug":"excitement-in-manjack-cay-episode-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/2017\/07\/excitement-in-manjack-cay-episode-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement in Manjack Cay — Episode I"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between bouts of strong west wind we spent several days in a cozy anchorage between Manjack and Crab Cays. We had nature trails to hike, mangrove creeks to row, sandy beaches to comb, sunken barges to explore, a swimming pig to feed, bucket loads of rain to collect, and thousands of mosquitoes in alliance with other blood-sucking critters to fend off.<\/p>\n

We took Oliver to the beach, and, as usual, his curiosity took over his fears as he slowly came out of his carrier.<\/p>\n

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He got more and more confident and explored, sniffed, and rubbed every new thing he discovered, until he started showing signs of discomfort. “Can we go home now?”, he seemed to be saying.<\/p>\n

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We put him back in the dinghy, but he was so impatient that he preferred not to go into the carrier as usual; instead he took position on the dinghy’s bow as a figurehead.<\/p>\n

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We were\u00a0approaching the big boat and then the unexpected happened. We were still two dinghy lengths away but Oliver apparently couldn’t wait anymore, and he just jumped into the water! He disappeared underwater for a couple of seconds, which was enough for Kathy to jump overboard as well, with hat, glasses and all. By the time Kathy reemerged, Oliver was swimming towards \u00d1and\u00fa’s transom. Even though it’s the lowest part of the boat, he was unable to climb and looked terrified until Kathy pushed him up.<\/p>\n

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Resting after so much excitement (and after a shower and a long drying cycle for the furry one).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t react fast enough to take pictures, so the next day we brought Oliver back to the beach hoping for another cat overboard drill. We wanted him to learn how to climb back to the boat by himself, and we had previously hung a net from the swim platform to see if that would help. I had the camera ready… but Oliver preferred the standard way of disembarking this time.<\/p>\n

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In between bouts of strong west wind we spent several days in a cozy anchorage between Manjack and Crab Cays. We had nature trails to hike, mangrove creeks to row, sandy beaches to comb, sunken barges to explore, a swimming pig to feed, bucket loads of rain to collect, and thousands of mosquitoes in alliance … Continue reading “Excitement in Manjack Cay — Episode I”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GCAo-eU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}