{"id":211,"date":"2008-09-14T22:25:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-09-23T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T07:36:49","slug":"rooney-point-hervey-bay-14092008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Rooney Point, Hervey Bay, 14\/09\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We motor-sailed across to Hervey Bay today and anchored at Rooney Point, just behind Sandy Cape at the northern tip of Fraser Island.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after we dropped anchor a chap and his young son came over from the beach in a dinghy. &#8220;You&#8217;ll see a lot of whales here tonight&#8221; he said, &#8220;they sleep here&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He was not wrong. Yvonne and I heard it at the same time &#8211; the chatting of the whales, big and small, all around the boat. Next there came the occasional, explosive, exhalation, mere meters away from us&#8230; Oh, and the occasional &#8220;bloop, bloop, bloop&#8230;&#8221; noises &#8211; no idea what those are!<\/p>\n<p>It was like being in the whales&#8217; home at dinner\/bed time&#8230; A couple of hours after dark it was all quiet and peaceful. An experience that will stay with me forever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rooney_point.jpg\" alt=\"Our anchorage at Rooney Point, Hervey Bay\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We motor-sailed across to Hervey Bay today and anchored at Rooney Point, just behind Sandy Cape at the northern tip of Fraser Island. Soon after we dropped anchor a chap and his young son came over from the beach in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68,69,67,71,70],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages","tag-fraser-island","tag-hervey-bay","tag-rooney-point","tag-sandy-cape","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}