{"id":21,"date":"2008-06-26T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-10-15T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T17:44:32","slug":"boating-crystal-river-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/boating-crystal-river-florida.htm","title":{"rendered":"Boating on Crystal River, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I both love beautiful nature and we are happy to enjoy adventures together.<br \/>\nWe wanted to see manatees and we did reservation for manatee tour with &#8220;Crystal Lodge Dive Center&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manatee-central.com\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/img\/posts\/crystal_river\/manatee_toors.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Lodge Dive Center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trip was scheduled for 8:00 a.m.<br \/>\nWe arrived early morning at this beautiful small town of Crystal River. Just across the dive center we had breakfast in open air enjoying the view of Kings Bay.<\/p>\n<p>At 8:00 we were still the only two people for manatee tour and they suggested us to rent a pontoon boat and make the trip ourselves.<br \/>\nSo we did &#8211; my husband was the captain and i was helping with the map.<br \/>\nWe were boating around Kings Bay along Buzzard Island around Banana Island where is the Big Spring or King Spring  and we made a stop to look for manatees.<br \/>\nThere were few of them around but too shy to come closer.<\/p>\n<p>Then we drove the boat back and under a bridge on  the way to &#8220;Tree Sisters Spring&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/img\/posts\/crystal_river\/boat_trip.jpg\" alt=\"Boating Crystal River\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We made our second stop and  we took a bath in refreshing pure cold spring water.<br \/>\nBack on the boat we got warm again on the sun.<br \/>\nWe had beautiful weather and made gorgeous pictures of water sights &#8211; an example how happy life in nature could be.<br \/>\nMore pictures of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/florida\/crystal_river\/boating.html\">Crystal River boat trip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boating on Crystal River looking for manatees in Kings Bay, enjoying beautiful water sights and swimming in pure spring water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[23,24,137],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","category-travel","tag-boating","tag-crystal-river","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}