{"id":2317,"date":"2013-03-09T17:32:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2013-03-09T17:32:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:32:48","slug":"view-deck-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"My View from the Deck: Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2318\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2318\" alt=\"IMG_4796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4796-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4796-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4796-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>One moment there I am, clutching my coffee mug and staring at the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2319\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2319\" alt=\"IMG_4802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4802-1024x599.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4802-1024x599.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4802-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>And the next moment,\u00c2\u00a0a dolphin cuts the surface of the water with\u00c2\u00a0its fin\u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0it swims parallel to shore in\u00c2\u00a0its arc-like pattern, hinting at what is teeming just below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2320\" alt=\"IMG_4823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4823-1024x830.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4823-1024x830.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4823-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2321\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2321\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2321\" alt=\"IMG_4820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4820-1024x612.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4820-1024x612.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4820-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4820.jpg 1477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2322\" alt=\"IMG_4840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4840-1024x867.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4840-1024x867.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4840-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Within a minute, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re everywhere, sometimes circling back, moving deeper into the sea and then around toward shore again before resuming their coastal path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2323\" alt=\"IMG_4818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4818-1024x588.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4818-1024x588.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4818-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4818.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=2324\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2324\" alt=\"IMG_4827\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4827-1024x720.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4827-1024x720.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4827-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a commonplace scene, during the winter months especially, and our recent weekend at the old house was no exception. The dolphins were fully mobilized, showing themselves several times throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Someday, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll catch them on camera when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the mood to play, when they flip and spin midair before falling beneath the water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surface, only to pop up for more again and again. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only seen it a handful of times over the years, and each time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve sat, speechless and glued to my seat, my camera the farthest thing from my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me: If I do catch it on camera someday, half of you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe what you are seeing really happens in the wild like that.<\/p>\n<p>And the other half of you will become my neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up next? I do believe another installment of <a title=\"My Latest Venture in the Land of Missing the Obvious\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2262\" target=\"_blank\">missing the obvious<\/a> might be in order.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve certainly got the material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One moment there I am, clutching my coffee mug and staring at the ocean. And the next moment,\u00c2\u00a0a dolphin cuts the surface of the water with\u00c2\u00a0its fin\u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0it swims parallel to shore in\u00c2\u00a0its arc-like pattern, hinting at what is teeming just below. Within a minute, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re everywhere, sometimes circling back, moving deeper into the sea and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,831,1424,1427,1425,105,554,1426],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-life","tag-coastal-life","tag-dolphins","tag-dolphins-in-the-wild","tag-dolphins-swimming-along-the-coast","tag-island-life","tag-living-on-the-beach","tag-watching-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}