{"id":5040,"date":"2021-01-02T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2022-04-15T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T19:50:14","slug":"midnight-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/midnight-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Midnight Climbs and Menai Illuminations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Menai Straits:<br \/>\nBack in July 2020, someone decided to celebrate the NHS by lighting up the Menai Straits bridges for an evening. A worthy idea for a fantastic organisation no doubt, though just after the longest day seemed a little strange scheduling. Of course this was a unique paddling opportunity for an unusual perspective. And so timings were altered &#8211; the &#8216;Climbs&#8217; session became a breezy &#8216;Midnight Climbs&#8217; sess.<\/p>\n<p>Layout: A bimble down to the Telford Suspension Bridge, then the climbs on &#8216;The Arches&#8217;, before taking a look down at Brittania Bridge. On the way back there&#8217;s a sneaky surf on &#8216;The Cardinal&#8217; (can you spot it?) before a final climb and head for home.<\/p>\n<p>The Menai Straits separates the Isle of Anglesey from the North Wales mainland. The Swellies is a 1 mile section of tidal rapids and features between the two bridges.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9EZT_uIRxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPerformanceSeaKayak%2Fvideos%2F164469965423592%2F&amp;width=1280&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=720&amp;appId\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Menai Straits: Back in July 2020, someone decided to celebrate the NHS by lighting up the Menai Straits bridges for an evening. A worthy idea for a fantastic organisation no doubt, though just after the longest day seemed a little strange scheduling. Of course this was a unique paddling opportunity for an unusual perspective. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/midnight-climbs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video &#8211; Midnight Climbs and Menai Illuminations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,25],"tags":[63,37,39,62,40,36,65],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-menai-strait-paddling","category-videos","tag-john-willacy","tag-menai-straits","tag-performance-sea-kayak","tag-rockpool-kayaks","tag-swellies","tag-taran","tag-taran-16","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}