{"id":342,"date":"2007-06-22T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/guadalupe-cobblestones\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:07:00","slug":"guadalupe-cobblestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/guadalupe-cobblestones.html","title":{"rendered":"Guadalupe Cobblestones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent hundreds of hours in the shallows at Guadalupe Island<\/a> (Isla Guadalupe<\/a>). The diving is so special there that I will spend every minute I can in the water, breathing a little as possible and waiting until my tank is drained before surfacing to call for a skiff ride back to the big boat<\/a>. The long eastern shore of Guadalupe Island<\/a> is typically protected and calm, and this is where much of our diving is done. Drifting around with the mild surge, I’ll find Guadalupe fur seals<\/a>, usually solitary males but sometimes juveniles in small groups, sea turtles, the very occasional elephant seal<\/a>, lots of lobster<\/a> and, since Guadalupe Island straddles both temperate and tropical ranges for many types of fish, a great mix of species. Sometimes too I’ll just zone out in the protected pocket cove, turning over the cobblestones that line the bottom looking for cowries and other weird stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Boulders<\/a><\/p>\n

Boulders cover the ocean floor, worn round and smooth by centuries of wave action.
\nImage ID: 18511<\/a>
\nLocation: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)<\/a>, Baja California<\/a>, Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent hundreds of hours in the shallows at Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe). The diving is so special there that I will spend every minute I can in the water, breathing a little as possible and waiting until my tank is drained before surfacing to call for a skiff ride…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,89],"tags":[251,281],"class_list":{"0":"post-342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-guadalupe-island","8":"category-mexico","9":"tag-guadalupe-island","10":"tag-mexico"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}