{"id":443,"date":"2004-10-20T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/10\/20\/st-andrews-bay-south-georgia-island-3\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:58:52","slug":"st-andrews-bay-south-georgia-island-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/10\/20\/st-andrews-bay-south-georgia-island-3\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

The skies were clear and the sunrise beautiful this morning, but apparently plans had changed so instead of spending a few hours at Gold Harbour everyone but David and I got out at Royal Bay to hike, and we then continued on to St. Andrews Bay. We had beautiful weather for enjoying the immensity of wildlife, and I spent nearly ten hours out roaming.<\/p>\n

This is the first trip on which I’ve used a digital camera, and while I have absolutely no complaints about the Canon 10D<\/a>, the one downside is that not having to worry about film or processing costs means I’m taking an immense number of photos, and must then spend a couple of hours each night deleting the chaff. Jerome has an uncanny ability to walk by just as I’m getting ready to delete a bad photo and then call attention to it, causing everyone in the boat to gather around the laptop, so there have been a number of rather embarrassing moments (“Yeah, that’s an underexposed shot of half of a fur seal’s head”); however, being able to see the day’s shots so immediately makes it worthwhile.<\/p>\n

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

Elephant Seal Pup in St. Andrews Bay<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The skies were clear and the sunrise beautiful this morning, but apparently plans had changed so instead of spending a few hours at Gold Harbour everyone but David and I got out at Royal Bay to hike, and we then continued on to St. Andrews Bay. We had beautiful weather for enjoying the immensity of … Continue reading “St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}