{"id":539,"date":"2008-06-20T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/benpyranha\/the-bitches\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T14:02:22","slug":"the-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/the-bitches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bitches&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sleepy village [OK technically the UK&#8217;s Smallest City] called St David&#8217;s is home to dozens tourist sea side shops and dozens of tea shops full of old people, a kayakers haven? Well yes actually, it&#8217;s also home to some class surf breaks and the UK&#8217;s largest off shore tidal race &#8211; The Bitches&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/thebitches.jpg\" title=\"thebitches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/thebitches.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"thebitches.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHampered by random sea fog, the plan of taking Sarah, a Bitches virgin, out on a small tide [intermediate level] kinda fell apart, so we went rock hopping and Dolphin spotting [yes in the UK!] whilst we waited for the 10ft visability to improve in the Bitches channel [100m away we were kayaking in brilliant sun-shine &#8211; weathers weird!]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarahcave.jpg\" title=\"sarahcave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarahcave.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"sarahcave.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Fog left, the sun came out, the swell and the tide picked up to leave us with the best way to sample the Bitches, and evening tide, in the sun, 7m tide difference with some swell thrown in just to make it interesting&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/topwaveben.jpg\" title=\"topwaveben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/topwaveben.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"topwaveben.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/topwaveben1.jpg\" title=\"topwaveben1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/topwaveben1.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"topwaveben1.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soul Surfing<br \/>\nBen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sleepy village [OK technically the UK&#8217;s Smallest City] called St David&#8217;s is home to dozens tourist sea side shops and dozens of tea shops full of old people, a kayakers haven? Well yes actually, it&#8217;s also home to some class surf breaks and the UK&#8217;s largest off shore tidal race &#8211; The Bitches&#8230; Hampered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/the-bitches\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-8H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}