{"id":1859,"date":"2012-04-02T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=1859"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:30:23","slug":"02-06-west-falkland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=1859","title":{"rendered":"02-06 West Falkland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recovering a Zodiac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

6<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup>.February, West Falkland – blue-eyed cormorant<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

I was fine the next day and the weather was also fine, sunny, not so cold but very windy. I went up on the bridge and there were albatrosses gliding round the ship, which made a beautiful sight. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There was then a major problem because it proved to be too rough to use the zodiacs. The attached picture shows one being winched back into the ship with the 2 expedition leaders on board after an unsuccessful attempt.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We were not able to go on land all day and spent it just trying to photograph sea birds from the ship. The Blue-eyed Cormorants were the easiest to shoot and there were some Magellan and Gentoo penguins in the water. \u00a0Their colony on a sandy spit of land called The Neck on Saunders Island could just be seen from a distance. Excursions had been planned to West Point Island and Carcass Island. At Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, there is a harbour and we should be able to make some land excursions, but we had missed an albatross colony and the rock-hopper penguins.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

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West Falkland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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  6th.February, West Falkland – blue-eyed cormorant I was fine the next day and the weather was also fine, sunny, not so cold but very windy. I went up on the bridge and there were albatrosses gliding round the ship, which made a beautiful sight. There was then a major problem because it proved to … Continue reading 02-06 West Falkland<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1832,"menu_order":5402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1859\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}