{"id":5670,"date":"2015-12-03T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svecho.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:23:50","slug":"a-new-season-aboard-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/svecho.com\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"A New Season aboard Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We first cleared into Grenada at the end of June, hard to believe it&#8217;s now already December and we&#8217;re still here. \u00a0Granted it was our plan to wait out hurricane season but still, it&#8217;s a long time for Echo to spend in one spot.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time to move on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While in Grenada we did haul Echo and leave the boat &#8221; on the hard&#8221; for 2 1\/2 months while we traveled to Washington State. \u00a0Grenada has been wonderful and Washington was great too. \u00a0 \u00a0Clearly we&#8217;ve been remiss in keeping up to date with our blog posts so as we head off on our 400 mile journey to Bonaire we each intend to write one post on our adventures over the past few months. \u00a0<em>(Hopefully by making this statement we will finally follow through.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This season we plan to explore parts of the <strong>Western Caribbean<\/strong> and <strong>Bonaire<\/strong> begins the adventure.<\/p>\n<p>We have cleared out of Grenada and leave Carriacou bound for Bonaire. \u00a0It should take just about 3 days and be mostly a downwind sail. \u00a0You can follow our tracks at <a href=\"https:\/\/share.delorme.com\/svecho\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Echo Location&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonaire is a top destination for diving and we hope to participate. \u00a0We dove in Carricaou yesterday to get started, it was beautiful!<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-5670-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/svecho.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/PC020061.jpg?fit=579%2C800&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5700&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Yes \\u0026#8211; we saw an octopus!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/svecho.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/PC020049.jpg?fit=800%2C565&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5697&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A Rock Beauty&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/svecho.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/PC020030.jpg?fit=800%2C568&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5696&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Possibly a French Angelfish&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/svecho.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/PC020024.jpg?fit=800%2C572&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5695&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Think it may be a Reef Squirrelfish?&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/svecho.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/PC020016.jpg?fit=800%2C573&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5694&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Sturgeon Fish??&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Clearly we have to work on our fish identification skills. \u00a0Thanks for following along!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>~ Jeff and Mary ~<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5699\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5699\" data-attachment-id=\"5699\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/svecho.com\/?attachment_id=5699\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg?fit=800%2C600\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;TG-4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1449041204&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Diving in Carricaou&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5699\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Diving in Carricaou\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg?resize=160%2C120 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/svecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC020056.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diving in Carricaou<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first cleared into Grenada at the end of June, hard to believe it&#8217;s now already December and we&#8217;re still here. \u00a0Granted it was our plan to wait out hurricane season but still, it&#8217;s a long time for Echo to &hellip; 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