{"id":22142,"date":"2016-06-02T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22142"},"modified":"2016-06-02T20:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T19:55:14","slug":"snorkelling-borth-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/snorkelling-borth-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkelling on Borth Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to swim since Christmas thanks to a shoulder injury so have been missing out on loads of clear water,\u00a0early morning swims in Aberystwyth and hadn&#8217;t even been out around the reefs in Borth. I had some time to get out snorkelling on Borth reefs today though and what a treat it was.<\/p>\n<p>The water was still quite clear, although the recent winds had messed it up a little and algal blooms and swarms of tiny jellyfish made it murky here and there. In general visibility was good and I&#8217;m pleased to say that the amount of life on Borth reefs is increasing all the time. Today the highlight of the show were the pipe fish. There were loads of them everywhere. I&#8217;m not 100% sure what type they were, but there was definitely more than one species and as far as I can tell, there were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snake Pipefish &#8211;\u00a0<i>Entelurus aequoreus<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Greater Pipefish &#8211;\u00a0<i>Syngnathus acus <\/i>and possibly<\/li>\n<li>Worm Pipefish &#8211;\u00a0<i>Nerophis lumbriciformis<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were also plenty of huge spider crabs. 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(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-22151'>\n\t\t\t\tSpider Crab and Pipefish\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spider-Crab.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spider-Crab-200x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Spider Crab\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-22152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spider-Crab-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spider-Crab-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spider-Crab-720x540.jpg 720w, 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I had some time to get out snorkelling on Borth reefs today though and what a treat it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":22143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-nature","category-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Snorkelling on Borth Reefs - A Simple Life of Luxury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/snorkelling-borth-reefs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Snorkelling on Borth Reefs - A Simple Life of Luxury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I haven&#8217;t been able to swim since Christmas thanks to a shoulder injury so have been missing out on loads of clear water,\u00a0early morning swims in Aberystwyth and hadn&#8217;t even been out around the reefs in Borth. 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