{"id":137,"date":"2010-03-15T04:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-03-20T05:03:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T12:03:05","slug":"st-lucia-near-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"St Lucia &#8211; Near the Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139 \" title=\"Hippopotamus and Crocodile \" src=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-119-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Can you see the crocodiles? \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-119-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-119-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-119.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you see the crocodiles? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We spend the next three days in St. Lucia, a small resort community on the beach and near three game reserves.\u00a0 We went to a park and watched the hippopotamus graze and the crocodile open their mouths.\u00a0 We went shopping (an activity that would be repeated several times throughout our trip).\u00a0 After a late<a href=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-143\" title=\"Giraffe &amp; Zebra \" src=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-059-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Giraffe &amp; Zebra \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-059-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-059-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-059.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> lunch we got to go to the beach and wade in the Indian Ocean where Erika put on quite a show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The next day we made it into Hluhluwe and Maphelana Game Reserves.\u00a0 It was a fun day of watching for any possible animals, especially the big five (lion, cheetah, elephant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-094.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-145\" title=\"Jared &amp; Erika on Safari \" src=\"http:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-094-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Jared &amp; Erika on Safari \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-094-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Africa-094.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>rhinoceros and buffalo (not to be confused with the bison we have in the states).\u00a0 We saw both the White (or Wide) and Black Rhinoceros, Elephant, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Zebra, Monkeys, Baboons, Kudu, Nyala, Impala, and a Warthog family.\u00a0 I am sure we are leaving something out.\u00a0 It was a long day of trying to see who could find the best animals first.\u00a0 I think Erika won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spend the next three days in St. Lucia, a small resort community on the beach and near three game reserves.\u00a0 We went to a park and watched the hippopotamus graze and the crocodile open their mouths.\u00a0 We went shopping (an activity that would be repeated several times throughout our trip).\u00a0 After a late lunch [&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-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erika-jared.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}