{"id":14616,"date":"2016-07-19T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2016-07-19T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:53:41","slug":"electric-wavewalk-700-in-key-largo-snorkeling-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/electric-wavewalk-700-in-key-largo-snorkeling-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Wavewalk 700 in Key Largo snorkeling tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By <a href=\"http:\/\/floridafishingkayaks.com\">Captain Larry Jarboe<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4>W700 shuttle to the reef &#8211;<\/h4>\n<p>Wavewalking is not just about fishing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wi5QKFRXxD8?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in Key Largo, the wind was ripping about 20-25 kts. out of the East. We had a friend from NYC who was facing her last vacation day in the Keys. My wife had promised her a snorkel trip on the reef and it was my job to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the gusty wind and skirting a large squall, I knew the conditions would afford a calm pocket of water behind Grecian Rocks on dead low tide.<\/p>\n<p>After a rather tumultuous ride offshore, we tied to one of the mooring balls behind the reef. Due to shifting wind, the mooring lines have to be far away enough from the coral rocks to allow boats to swing 360 degrees and not hit the shallow reef. This means snorkelers have to swim the distance of about half a football field of grass and sand to get to the edge of the reef where most of the fish reside.<\/p>\n<p>This is a long way for many people to swim against the wind surge but it beats trying to snorkel in 4-5 foot seas which was the norm everywhere else..<\/p>\n<p>I launched my W700 with a bow mounted Minnkota Rip Tide electric trolling motor from the mother ship. A line tied to a ring buoy trailed as a stern line to tow my two masked grand matrons to snorkeling nirvana. Of course, I waited at the edge of the reef to provide a place of rest and a leisurely ride home.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to fishing, duck hunting, exploring, stand up joystick water skimming or laid back paddle yakking, the W700 makes a fine yacht tender as well as a snorkeler shuttle service to the reef.<\/p>\n<p>Saddled aboard his trusty Wavewalk steed, indeed, Larry, The Stable Guy, got &#8216;er done.<\/p>\n<p>Again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?s=jarboe\">More fishing adventures with Capn\u2019 Larry \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Captain Larry Jarboe W700 shuttle to the reef &#8211; Wavewalking is not just about fishing. Yesterday, in Key Largo, the wind was ripping about 20-25 kts. out of the East. We had a friend from NYC who was facing her last vacation day in the Keys. My wife had promised her a snorkel trip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/electric-wavewalk-700-in-key-largo-snorkeling-tour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Electric Wavewalk 700 in Key Largo snorkeling tour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}