{"id":1467,"date":"2009-03-04T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T01:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:15:59","slug":"bigeye-jacks-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/bigeye-jacks-galapagos.html","title":{"rendered":"Bigeye Jacks, Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our 2006 trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/galapagos_islands_photo.html\">Galapagos Islands<\/a>, we had some very good diving at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/darwin_island_photo.html\">Darwin Island<\/a>: hammerheads, silky sharks and spotted eagle rays galore on the shoulder of the reef, with more than a few Galapagos fur seals, turtles and various schools of fish closer to shore.  At the end of a late afternoon dive there, I was relaxing in the shallows gingerly sipping the last few PSI in my tank, spending as much time underwater before a lack of air forced me to ascend and call for the <em>panga<\/em>.  There was a nice-sized school of bigeye jacks (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Caranx_sexfasciatus\">Caranx sexfasciatus<\/a><\/em>) whirling around me in the fading light.  I tried making some artsy-fartsy strobe-blur photos and ended up with one I was happy with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=16347\" title=\"Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/caranx-sexfasciatus-bigeye-jack-photograph-16347-812047.jpg\" alt=\"Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling, Caranx sexfasciatus, Darwin Island\" title=\"Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling, Caranx sexfasciatus, Darwin Island\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=16347\">16347<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bigeye_jack_photo.html\" title=\"Bigeye jack photos\">Bigeye jack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Caranx_sexfasciatus\" title=\"Caranx sexfasciatus photos\"><i>Caranx sexfasciatus<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=darwin_island&amp;state=galapagos_islands&amp;country=ecuador\">Darwin Island<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=galapagos_islands&amp;country=ecuador\">Galapagos Islands<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=ecuador\">Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Caranx_sexfasciatus\">bigeye jack photos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/galapagos_islands_photo.html\">Galapagos Islands photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our 2006 trip to the Galapagos Islands, we had some very good diving at Darwin Island: hammerheads, silky sharks and spotted eagle rays galore on the shoulder of the reef, with more than a few Galapagos fur seals, turtles and various schools of fish closer to shore. At the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,184],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-galapagos-diaries","7":"category-marine-life"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}