{"id":45184,"date":"2023-04-16T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45184"},"modified":"2023-11-12T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:44:04","slug":"kayak-w-capt-yak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45184","title":{"rendered":"Manatees: kayak w\/ Capt. Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#manatees #kayak w\/ #CaptainYak #BocaCuegaBay\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oyj7IAXyhgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2986-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-45191 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2986-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Captain Yak<br \/>\n2902 Miriam St S<br \/>\nGulfport, FL<\/p>\n<p>A nice day out there on the Boca Ciega Bay, which is connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida. We paddled through rough water, calm water, mangroves, osprey and manatees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dolphins.org\/manatee_factsheet\">According to dolphin research center<\/a>, manatees are about 4-4.5 feet (1.2-1.4 m) long when they are born and average 60-70 pounds (27-32 kg). Full-grown manatees weigh between 800 to 1,200 pounds (360-545 kg) and reach 10 feet (3.0 m) in length.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2 #kayak w\/ CaptYak @BocaCiegaBay\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_1h5xx1d32I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; some photos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2937-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2937-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2948-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2948-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2949-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2949-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2957-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2957-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2977-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2977-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2973-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-45190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2973-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got to the base at 10 and left at 10:30, have the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2973-2-scaled.jpg\">bathroom break at 11:30<\/a> at Clam Bayou and done by 12:51. It&#8217;s $30 pp for 4 hours. We didn&#8217;t till 2pm.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 #kayak w\/ #CaptainYak #BocaCiegaBay #florida\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZGrrv1d4I10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Yak 2902 Miriam St S Gulfport, FL A nice day out there on the Boca Ciega Bay, which is connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida. We paddled through rough water, calm water, mangroves, osprey and manatees. According to dolphin research center, manatees are about 4-4.5 feet (1.2-1.4 m) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}