{"id":6011,"date":"2019-02-13T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2019-02-13T01:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:00:59","slug":"swim-with-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/swim-with-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim with Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snorkeling at Akumal is one of the highlights to visiting the area.\u00a0 It is a very popular location to see and swim with sea turtles in the wild.\u00a0 To locate this area, walk south along the beach and watch where the sea turns from turquoise to a dark blue.\u00a0 There will also be markers for the area you are permitted to swim.\u00a0 The water is darker in this area because the sea bottom is covered with sea grass that the turtles love to feed on.<\/p>\n<p>There is now an access fee to get onto the beach.\u00a0 You are also lead to believe by local vendors that you have to rent their equipment to snorkel and you cannot use your own.\u00a0 This is not true.\u00a0 It is just a ploy for them to make money off the tourist.<\/p>\n<p>Do not swim too close to the turtles, observe from a good distance.\u00a0 However, the turtles are curious and not shy and often swim toward you or near-by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Snorkeling at Akumal is one of the highlights to visiting the area.\u00a0 It is a very popular location to see and swim with sea turtles in the wild.\u00a0 To locate this area, walk south along the beach and watch where the sea turns from turquoise to a dark blue.\u00a0 There will also be markers [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelotusadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}