{"id":137,"date":"2006-02-18T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T04:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-02-25T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T23:52:20","slug":"toliva-shoals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/toliva-shoals\/","title":{"rendered":"Toliva Shoals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from an exhausting but very fun race from Olympia to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssssclub.com\/toliva.htm\">Toliva Shoals<\/a>. The weather was just like the front picture on that link, clear, breeze, and intimidating views of Rainier and the Cascades bearing down over you.  My camera must have gotten salt in it, because I wasn&#8217;t able to take pictures after the first few hours.  Even though it was clear it was very wet on the bow, due to the steady 15-20 knot winds that were kicking up 2 foot wind waves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pacificfog.net\/photographs\/06-02-18-web\/images\/_D2X1663%20copy.jpg\" alt=\"Finish Line\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So ,this was my first race on bow. It was a fair amount of work, something I never appreciated until now. My shins are bruised, my nails ground down or broken off, my arms useless, my hands cracked with salt but it was very fun. I think I was more engaged in the race than normal due to the alertness you need to maintain while on the bow. <\/p>\n<p>Below are a few photos of the race along with some around work photos last Friday.<br \/>\n{gallery [TolivaShoals]}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from an exhausting but very fun race from Olympia to Toliva Shoals. The weather was just like the front picture on that link, clear, breeze, and intimidating views of Rainier and the Cascades bearing down over you. My camera must have gotten salt in it, because I wasn&#8217;t able to take pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}