{"id":1450,"date":"2015-10-02T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:34:09","slug":"galapagos-part-5-la-galapaguera-punta-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Part 5: La Galapaguera + Punta Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NOM\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 5, in the morning we took a zodiac, then bus ride to La Galapaguera<\/strong>, a breeding center\/sanctuary for the island tortoise. <\/p>\n

\"Egg!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a tortoise egg. Marked with an X so that the folks who run the center can tell which side of the egg was up in the nest. (If you rotate the egg, apparently it dies)<\/p>\n

\"San<\/a><\/p>\n

The view of San Cristobal when we arrived.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

The rare (not at all) sea lion. They’re everywhere. <\/p>\n

In the afternoon, we went for a “less talk, more walk” hike at Punta Pitt<\/strong>. There was still lots of talking, but also scenery unlike anything else we’d seen so far. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

We seemed to be hiking around a bunch of mountains. <\/p>\n

\"Goats<\/a><\/p>\n

We could see goats on the ridge line. Goats are an introduced species and the park is trying to eradicate them. <\/p>\n

\"Climbing<\/a><\/p>\n

Parts of the hike were a little steep… But not scary. <\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

There were a couple nests in the middle of the trail. These birds are fearless.<\/p>\n

\"Its<\/a><\/p>\n

A view of the ocean at the edge of the island. <\/p>\n

I thought this hike was the most “fun” of all the hikes we did. Not the most<\/em> wildlife, but pretty awesome landscapes. The rock is super, super soft though. Not at all climbable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 5, in the morning we took a zodiac, then bus ride to La Galapaguera, a breeding center\/sanctuary for the island tortoise. Here’s a tortoise egg. Marked with an X so that the folks who run the center can tell which side of the egg was up in the nest. (If you rotate the egg, […]<\/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":[136,18,144],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","tag-galapagos","tag-photography","tag-tortoises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}