{"id":2265,"date":"2014-02-14T06:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:10:44","slug":"mona-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Mona Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well we had heard lots of stories about going over the Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. Watch the weather and don&#8217;t go near the hour glass shoals which are like washing machines with very confused seas. We luckily were going the right way, down wind!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2369 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0631.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0631\" width=\"548\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0631.jpg 548w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0631-300x262.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0631-342x300.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had a great crossing, beautiful sunset and full moon. Winds were terrific calming as we got closer to the Dominican Republic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2317 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050264.jpg\" alt=\"P1050264\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050264.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050264-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050264-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was like we were on a lake when we got closer to Samana Bay.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2318\" style=\"width: 247px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050269-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050269\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050272a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2320\" style=\"width: 253px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050272a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050272a\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw lots of humpback whales in the bay. Amazing to watch. Thanks to Jen from Our Rose we got these photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2371 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0688.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0688\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0688.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0688-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0688-500x277.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2372 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0711.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0711\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0711.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0711-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0711-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>We found Marina Puerto Bahia further into Samana Bay our home for about a week while we look around the DR and yes relax in those crystal clear pools scattered around this resort\/ marina. Sorry, but this is like no marina we have ever seen. We can not believe we have access to all the facilities of the resort.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2321\" style=\"width: 246px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050275-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050275\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2322\" style=\"width: 261px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/P1050277-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050277\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we had heard lots of stories about going over the Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. Watch the weather and don&#8217;t go near the hour glass shoals which are like washing machines with very confused seas. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=2265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puerto-rico","tag-mona-passage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}