{"id":670,"date":"2018-01-05T03:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=670"},"modified":"2018-01-05T03:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:47:23","slug":"gough-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Gough Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\">A day and a half short of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands, we were informed that as a surprise they had been considering passing Gough Island some 400km south of Tristan da Cunha itself as this is the last scheduled voyage of the RMS St Helena taking in Tristan da Cunha. Given the weather was looking unsatisfactory at Tristan da Cunha for our scheduled arrival on the 3rd, this was now the plan, with us now due to arrive there on the morning of the 4th. We arrived at Gough Island shortly after first light at 0600 on the 3rd. Initially the island was a shadowy figure shrouded in mist and rain. We had seen many more birds around the ship the previous evening and now there were birds everywhere as well as fur seals fleetingly visible amongst the waves.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"7CABF2C0-14F7-482F-A6F6-68F51279C3CC\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1050844.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">A giant petrel drifts slowly past the ship riding the up draught<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" apple-inline=\"yes\" id=\"6B640812-8EB8-4F71-B62A-37B52B3A7FF2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1050828.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">We circled a couple of times and sounded the ships horn off the South African meteorological station on Gough Island before continuing around the island and north towards Tristan da Cunha to arrive at first light on the 4th.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day and a half short of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands, we were informed that as a surprise they had been considering passing Gough Island some 400km south of Tristan da Cunha itself as this is the last scheduled voyage of the RMS St Helena taking in Tristan da Cunha. Given the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gough Island&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}