{"id":679,"date":"2010-05-20T20:34:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/withinrch.wordpress.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-05-20T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:34:37","slug":"galapagostripreport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2010\/05\/20\/galapagostripreport\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos\/Ecuador Trip Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/ecuador\/galapagos\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Kicker Rock, Galapagos\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/images\/newsletters\/032110galapagos_kickerrock-%283%29.jpg?resize=280%2C210\" alt=\"Kicker Rock, Galapagos\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kicker Rock, Galapagos<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Galapagos Day 2:<\/h3>\n<p>Our morning excursion was a walk around the Darwin Bay beach and cove followed by beach and  snorkeling time (about 2 hours total).<\/p>\n<p>Genovesa Island is a volcano that collapsed into  a crater, so now it is C-shaped, and we were parked in the middle of the \u201cC\u201d.\u00a0 Hundreds of birds were gliding on the air over the cliffs of the island.<\/p>\n<p>There were lots and lots of frigate birds with  their red chests all puffed out.\u00a0 We saw some of them doing their wing-flapping bird-calling mating dance, and even one  couple making a match.<\/p>\n<p>The guides do a great job talking about the  animals, how the live, and how they interact.\u00a0 The paths are well marked, so it is easy to walk around afterwards for more pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The snorkeling was pretty good.\u00a0 The  water was warm enough, so I don\u2019t think I will be using a wetsuit on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>Animals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red-footed boobies<\/li>\n<li>Frigate birds<\/li>\n<li>Nazca boobies<\/li>\n<li>Swallow Tail Gulls<\/li>\n<li>Brown Pelicans<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Crown Night Heron<\/li>\n<li>Galapagos Dove<\/li>\n<li>Sea Lions<\/li>\n<li>Needle Fish<\/li>\n<li>Sally Lightfoot Crabs<\/li>\n<li>Galapagos Mockingbird<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travbuddy.com\/travel-blogs\/72217\/Day-10-March-21-Quito-Galapagos-12\">Read the full Galapagos Trip Report &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galapagos Day 2: Our morning excursion was a walk around the Darwin Bay beach and cove followed by beach and snorkeling time (about 2 hours total). Genovesa Island is a volcano that collapsed into a crater, so now it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2010\/05\/20\/galapagostripreport\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","category-galapagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}