{"id":121,"date":"2008-02-12T20:35:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T01:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/12\/up-north-to-bligh-water\/"},"modified":"2018-07-14T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:37:48","slug":"up-north-to-bligh-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/12\/up-north-to-bligh-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Up North to Bligh Water&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we awoke to another perfect day and after a smooth, peaceful ride the night before we found ourselves in the middle of Vatu-i-ru Channel motoring our way up to \u2018E6&#8242;. According to Marnie, both \u2018E6&#8242; and \u2018HI8&#8242; are basically enormous sea mounts which sit in the middle of the channel, therefore you never know what might turn up or fly by while diving here. The sites are well known for their dramatic walls, caverns and swim-thru&#8217;s. The sight was most stunning from the surface and got even better once we were in the water!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080210_img_004332.jpg\" alt=\"A look from the stern - Fiji Aggressor\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Sunrise &#8211; looking off the stern\u00a0of the Fiji Aggressor II<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Our first dive on \u2018E6&#8242; turned up a Turtle, several Lion Fish, some Nudibranchs and even a White Tip Shark! We also saw Pipefish, schools of Barracuda and large Jacks, Puffer Fish and tons of different species of Anemone Fish. Our second dive on this site was a mirror image of the first; we just drifted to the right side of the sea mount this time instead of the left!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080211_img_004343.jpg\" alt=\"080211_img_004343.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080211_img_004355.jpg\" alt=\"A diver at E6 - Fiji\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080211_img_004381.jpg\" alt=\"080211_img_004381.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080211_img_004357.jpg\" alt=\"080211_img_004357.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080211_img_004393c.jpg\" alt=\"080211_img_004393c.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<small>One of mine &amp; Julie&#8217;s favorite photogenic little subjects from Fiji<\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">More pictures from HI8 to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Foceanimagery.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F02%2F12%2Fup-north-to-bligh-water%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 0px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we awoke to another perfect day and after a smooth, peaceful ride the night before we found ourselves in the middle of Vatu-i-ru Channel motoring our way up to \u2018E6&#8242;. According to Marnie, both \u2018E6&#8242; and \u2018HI8&#8242; are basically enormous sea mounts which sit in the middle of the channel, therefore you never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oceanimagery.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}