{"id":40,"date":"2005-03-09T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/butterfly-cove-at-sunrise-guadalupe-island\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:12:21","slug":"butterfly-cove-at-sunrise-guadalupe-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/butterfly-cove-at-sunrise-guadalupe-island.html","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Cove at Sunrise, Guadalupe Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evening anchorage at the south end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x0=locations&amp;x1=protected_threatened_and_significant_places&amp;x2=international&amp;x3=isla_guadalupe_special_biosphere_reserve_(mexico)\">Guadalupe Island<\/a> (Isla Guadalupe) is Melpomene Bay. Early in the morning we raise anchor and move to take a look at the water conditions at nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?ss=adentro\">Isla Adentro<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?ss=afuera\">Isla Afuera<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?ss=church_rock\">Church Rock<\/a>. On this morning, none of those spots offered us what we were looking for, so we motored around the southeastern corner of the island to dive at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?ss=abalone_point\">Abalone Point<\/a>. As we passed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=03706\">morro and cliffs above Butterfly Cove<\/a>, the sun cleared the horizon and hit the island with a rich golden light.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"East face and shoreline of southernmost morro, daybreak.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=06152\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"East face and shoreline of southernmost morro, daybreak, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/east-face-shoreline-southernmost-morro-photo-06152-216912.jpg\" alt=\"East face and shoreline of southernmost morro, daybreak, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">East face and shoreline of southernmost morro, daybreak.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=06152\">06152<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=guadalupe_island_(isla_guadalupe)&amp;state=baja_california&amp;country=mexico\">Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=baja_california&amp;country=mexico\">Baja California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=mexico\">Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keywords: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/isla_guadalupe_photo.html\">Isla Guadalupe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/guadalupe_island_photo.html\">Guadalupe Island<\/a>, Mexico, photo, photograph, sunrise, Butterfly Cove, Westies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evening anchorage at the south end of Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe) is Melpomene Bay. Early in the morning we raise anchor and move to take a look at the water conditions at nearby Isla Adentro, Isla Afuera and Church Rock. On this morning, none of those spots offered us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,89],"tags":[251,281],"class_list":{"0":"post-40","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\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}