{"id":683,"date":"2006-01-09T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/01\/09\/st-andrews-bay\/"},"modified":"2011-01-14T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T06:26:47","slug":"st-andrews-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/01\/09\/st-andrews-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrews Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full days and late night last night caught up with me today, and a part of me was actually hoping that bad weather might delay our landing at St. Andrews by a few hours so that I could rest.  Luckily that didn&#8217;t happen, and for almost eleven hours I roamed around with 350,000 king penguins and a handful of fur seals, elephant seals, skuas, petrels, sheathbills and even reindeer.  The weather went from sunny to rainy and back every five minutes, and I actually fell asleep onshore twice, but it was still a great day.  The penguin chicks are as curious as always, and it was pretty much guaranteed that whenever I would stop there would be at least one running up to me to nibble on my glove or to follow me around.  In addition, while the <a href=\"\/journal\/2004\/10\/14\/st-andrews-bay-south-georgia-island\/\">vast piles of elephant seals<\/a> are now gone, there were a few groups of the giant beasties lying around, and you can&#8217;t help but love a four thousand pound sausage-shaped critter with giant cow eyes that stinks, belches, and ripples blubber when it moves.  Time has flown by, and sadly tomorrow will be our second-to-last day on this incredible island.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Penguin Chick\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2006-01-C\/6336-st-andrews-bay-king-penguin-chick.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">King penguin chick in St. Andrew&#8217;s Bay.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full days and late night last night caught up with me today, and a part of me was actually hoping that bad weather might delay our landing at St. Andrews by a few hours so that I could rest. Luckily that didn&#8217;t happen, and for almost eleven hours I roamed around with 350,000 king &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/01\/09\/st-andrews-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. Andrews Bay&#8221;<\/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":[12],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-antarctica-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}