{"id":162,"date":"2010-12-06T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/creatures\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:28:12","slug":"el-tular","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/?page_id=162","title":{"rendered":"El Tular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: This page was originally published in late 2010. \u00a0We&#8217;re no longer living in Loreto, but the geography is probably much like it was then.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the coast just north of Nopol\u00f3, north of the ruined dock and the boat launch ramp, is the mouth of the arroyo El Tular. Paddling by you&#8217;re unlikely to notice it, distracted by the birds perched on the snags outside its bar. On foot or by bicycle though it is normally a pretty big obstacle &#8212; you would have to go pretty far inland to cross without getting wet, and by then you would have encountered a lot of vegetation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/creatures\/?attachment_id=163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-163 size-medium\" title=\"snag\" src=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snag-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snag-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snag-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snag-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snag-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1680 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spit-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, though, with a predicted low tide of minus .43 meters, we made the trip on foot. At this stage the journey is safe for steet shoes &#8212; but of less interest to kayakers.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a pretty interesting place no matter how you get there. See our account of January 18, 2010 under <a href=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/creatures\/?p=3\">&#8220;Earlier Posts.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This page was originally published in late 2010. \u00a0We&#8217;re no longer living in Loreto, but the geography is probably much like it was then. On the coast just north of Nopol\u00f3, north of the ruined dock and the boat &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/?page_id=162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/1679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}