{"id":475,"date":"2014-04-10T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/creatures\/?p=475"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:08:56","slug":"la-primavera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"La primavera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warming temperatures have us thinking of heading north for a while. I had the blue boat in the water and thought that I should take a turn around the point and paddle through the lagoon one last time.<\/p>\n<p>On the way I saw two boobies posing. They looked so small that I thought they might be youngsters; but I guess that if you&#8217;re standing beside a brown pelican the scale could be deceptive. If there aren&#8217;t booby babies yet there will be soon &#8212; the nesting area on the northeast side of the point is noisy with either hatchlings or the promise thereof.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1634\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1634\" class=\"wp-image-1634 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0975.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0975.jpg 640w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0975-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0975-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boobies at Punta Nopol\u00f3<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The birds were very patient with me as I floated by taking photographs &#8212; especially considering that the current kept pushing my boat toward them. Alas, I had been adjusting the camera&#8217;s resolution for taking movies, so my wildlife pictures are scarcely more than thumbnails. But it&#8217;s a pretty setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warming temperatures have us thinking of heading north for a while. I had the blue boat in the water and thought that I should take a turn around the point and paddle through the lagoon one last time. On the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}