{"id":863,"date":"2025-08-27T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/?p=863"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:36:05","slug":"a-terrapins-birthday-trek-across-the-bay-of-mont-saint-michel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/en\/2025\/08\/27\/a-terrapins-birthday-trek-across-the-bay-of-mont-saint-michel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Terrapin\u2019s Birthday Trek Across the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To celebrate her birthday, a Terrapin crossed the legendary Baie of Mont Saint-Michel in France \u2014 barefoot and bold \u2014 all the way to the island of Tombelaine. Silke navigated rivers, quicksand (yes, there\u2019s a trick to escaping it!), and tidal flats with true Terrapin spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mont Saint-Michel is a UNESCO site with 30 residents, 9 monks and 33,000 visitors\/day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tombelaine was once occupied by the English for 30 years (they never conquered Mont Saint-Michel), now a bird sanctuary with a romantic legend of lost love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" data-id=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-1-1-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-1-1-980x458.jpg 980w, https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-1-1-480x224.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-2-1-478x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-865\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-3-1-478x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" data-id=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-4-1-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-4-1-980x540.jpg 980w, https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-4-1-480x264.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate her birthday, a Terrapin crossed the legendary Baie of Mont Saint-Michel in France \u2014 barefoot and bold \u2014 all the way to the island of Tombelaine. Silke navigated rivers, quicksand (yes, there\u2019s a trick to escaping it!), and tidal flats with true Terrapin spirit. Mont Saint-Michel is a UNESCO site with 30 residents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrapins.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}