{"id":6344,"date":"2014-01-25T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2019-01-06T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:23:10","slug":"sea-turtle-galapagos-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/sea-turtle-galapagos-black-and-white.html","title":{"rendered":"Sea Turtle, Galapagos, Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have made a lot of dives in the Galapagos Islands<\/a>, and one of my favorite creatures to see underwater is the sea turtle. The ungainly-looking animals are actually quite hydrodynamic and can navigate the surge, currents and waves to graze on algae along the reef. These two turtles were encountered at remote Wolf Island<\/a> (Wenman Island) in the far northern reaches of the Galapagos archipelago. In the first image, a school of ever-present Pacific creole fish surrounds the turtle; its distinctive tail gives away that it is a male. Cheers and thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

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Sea Turtle, underwater, black and white.
\nImage ID: 16382<\/a>
\nLocation: Wolf Island<\/a>, Galapagos Islands<\/a>, Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sea Turtle, underwater, black and white.
\nImage ID: 16383<\/a>
\nLocation: Wolf Island<\/a>, Galapagos Islands<\/a>, Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have made a lot of dives in the Galapagos Islands, and one of my favorite creatures to see underwater is the sea turtle. The ungainly-looking animals are actually quite hydrodynamic and can navigate the surge, currents and waves to graze on algae along the reef. These two turtles were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,184,122,123],"tags":[214,235,244,258,329,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-6344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-galapagos-diaries","8":"category-marine-life","9":"category-underwater-life","10":"category-underwater-photography","11":"tag-black-and-white","12":"tag-ecuador","13":"tag-galapagos-islands","14":"tag-island","15":"tag-turtle","16":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}