{"id":5226,"date":"2026-03-15T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:54:12","slug":"260315-ok-ill-just-say-it-sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/260315-ok-ill-just-say-it-sea-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"260315-Ok, I’ll just say it. Sea Turtles!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t quite make it up in time to catch the 7:20 am ferry to Liuqiu. I headed over early for the 8:50 a.m. ferry, and caught the 8:00 a.m. express ferry that I didn’t know existed.<\/p>\n

While my first thought was to arrange snorkeling early, I decided to go ahead and circumnavigate the island. A single inexpensive ticket provides access to all of the various tourist locations, so I visited them all on the 12 km ride around the island.<\/p>\n

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I had expected to just automatically find a snorkeling place on my ride around the island. Failing to do so, and some googling later, I rode to Bear Diving. They gladly accepted me as a walk-in, provided a wetsuit and life vest, and off we went.<\/p>\n

Coral reefs surround Liuqiu. So many sea turtles. They uploaded the photos to Google Drive.<\/p>\n

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Afterwards I had plenty of time to stop back in town for shrimp dumplings before heading over to the ferry, again showing up just in time to walk onto the ferry. I walked into Dongang for dinner, wandered back to where the night market had been the night before (not tonight), and returned to the hostel.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I have a short ride to stage myself for the day afterwards. Indeed, it might be so short that I drop my gear at the hostel and wander off for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t quite make it up in time to catch the 7:20 am ferry to Liuqiu. I headed over early for the 8:50 a.m. ferry, and caught the 8:00 a.m. express ferry that I didn’t know existed. While my first thought was to arrange snorkeling early, I decided to go ahead and circumnavigate the island. … Continue reading “260315-Ok, I’ll just say it. Sea Turtles!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}