{"id":1472,"date":"2015-10-11T00:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2015-10-11T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:53:02","slug":"galapagos-day-7-el-manzanillo-plaza-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Day 7: El Manzanillo + Plaza Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started out with a zodiac ride to Santa Cruz, then a bus ride to Rancho El Manzanillo<\/strong>. Which is a big plot of private land where tortoises can hang out. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
\nOur bus had to stop a couple times to let tortoises cross the road. I imagine a road is easier to walk on than grass, even as a tortoise. <\/p>\n

\"Tortoiseeee\"<\/a>
\nA tortoise! They make dinosaur noises if you startle them. (oops)<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
\nThere’s a lake\/pond\/body of water covered in a red and green water plant. <\/p>\n

\"Tortoise<\/a>
\nAnd tortoises hang out in it. <\/p>\n

\"Jonny\"<\/a>
\nAnd there’s a restaurant and some tortoise shells. Jonny is in one, for scale. <\/p>\n

In the afternoon, a walk around Plaza Sur<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Land<\/a>
\nThe island had a lot of land iguanas. Like this one. <\/p>\n

\"Land<\/a>
\nThey’re very colorful.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a>
\nA sea lion. How do they get to these places?<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a>
\nAnd some baby marine iguanas that happened to be cuddling nearby. <\/p>\n

\"Flomp.<\/a>
\nFlomp! Naptime by the cliff. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
\nPlaza Sur’s landscape features a lot of cacti and succulents. <\/p>\n

\"Pokeflute?!\"<\/a>
\nAnd we needed a Pokeflute. Sleeping mommy and baby sea lions blocked our path. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We started out with a zodiac ride to Santa Cruz, then a bus ride to Rancho El Manzanillo. Which is a big plot of private land where tortoises can hang out. Our bus had to stop a couple times to let tortoises cross the road. I imagine a road is easier to walk on than […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","tag-galapagos","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}