{"id":678,"date":"2010-01-07T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-01-07T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:57:42","slug":"getting-into-a-rhythm-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/01\/07\/getting-into-a-rhythm-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Into a Rhythm in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-672 alignnone\" title=\"DSC09074\" src=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09074.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the whole beach, all three kilometres of it. \u00a0I have indicated where our villa is located (behind the trees that edge the beach) with a red arrow. \u00a0It&#8217;s kind of small, but you can find it if you look hard enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09067.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-671\" title=\"DSC09067\" src=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09067.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Well, as you can guess, when we go walking the beach it makes for a good six kilometre walk, a very good workout for the legs especially when we walk in the water for a good portion of the walk. \u00a0In this photo looking away from the beach out to the Pacific Ocean, you can see how most of the coastal area is rocky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-673\" title=\"DSC09077\" src=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09077.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>We found a very small beach just around the corner of these rocks, a perfect place for a quiet picnic in the future. Of course the rocks themselves make for a good playground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-670\" title=\"DSC09065\" src=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09065.jpg?w=219\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>We weren&#8217;t the only ones who thought that the place was a good spot to hang out. \u00a0This beautiful bird decided that he was interested in sharing the place with us. \u00a0He even posed for us so that you could see what kind of friends we are already making in Jaco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-674 alignleft\" title=\"DSC09081\" src=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09081.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>With the morning walk done, we returned back to the villa with me stopping only once for yet another flower photo. \u00a0Back in the villa we decided to follow the rules of the country and just chill out until the late afternoon when everyone comes back out to play. \u00a0Time spent in the pool as a way of cooling off was part of our strategy for chilling out.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it was time to head back to the beach for a few more sunset photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09098.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-677\" title=\"DSC09098\" src=\"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dsc09098.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Here is one that Maureen took as proof on my being here with her. All I can say is that life here is even better than we expected. \u00a0So far, it is like a paradise.<\/p>\n<p>What else do we do in paradise? \u00a0Well, we do actually sit still for a little bit of time so that I can write up these blogs and get a small bit of reading in. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t much time left over for being bored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the whole beach, all three kilometres of it. \u00a0I have indicated where our villa is located (behind the trees that edge the beach) with a red arrow. \u00a0It&#8217;s kind of small, but you can find it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/01\/07\/getting-into-a-rhythm-in-paradise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}