{"id":1425,"date":"2015-09-25T05:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T05:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2015-09-25T05:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T05:50:52","slug":"galapagos-part-4-rabida-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Part 4: Rabida + Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Arnold: i can only imagine if &#8220;On the Origin of Species&#8221; had been written by you instead of Darwin<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fig 18: Variations in cuteness of bird butts correlated with cuteness of local flora&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the morning &#8212; a hike around <strong>Rabida<\/strong>, followed by some snorkeling (pictures from that to come later&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1782.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1782-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Rabida Beach\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1782-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1782.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1782-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe view of our boat from the beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1837-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Galapagos Hawk\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1837-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1837.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1837-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Galapagos hawk in flight &#8212; it&#8217;s tagged!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1917-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Vermillion Fly Catcher\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1917-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1917.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1917-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFat bird with a red hat (vermillion fly catcher)<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, we took a zodiac around Eden Inlet to look for sharks and rays. They&#8217;re pretty hard to see in the water. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1954-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Cucumber Fishermen\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1954-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1954.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1954-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome fishermen (maybe sea cucumber?) hanging out. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1967.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1967-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Pufferfish\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1967-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1967.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1967-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSmall unpuffed pufferfish<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1971-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Supposed Shark\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1971-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1971.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_1971-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI swear this looked more like a shark in person&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_2018-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Rock\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_2018-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_2018.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_2018-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne stop animal rock &#8212; pelicans, sea lions, sally crabs &#038; marine iguanas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold: i can only imagine if &#8220;On the Origin of Species&#8221; had been written by you instead of Darwin &#8220;Fig 18: Variations in cuteness of bird butts correlated with cuteness of local flora&#8221; In the morning &#8212; a hike around Rabida, followed by some snorkeling (pictures from that to come later&#8230;) The view of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140,136,18],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","tag-birds","tag-galapagos","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}