{"id":685,"date":"2018-01-09T03:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=685"},"modified":"2018-01-09T03:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:22:25","slug":"inaccessible-and-nightingale-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We had steamed offshore for the night and on the morning of Jan 5th we approached Nightingale Island and proceeded to circumnavigate the island. The island in uninhabited, but has a hut Tristanians use for fishing trips. The island is home to huge colonies of seabirds, northern rockhopper penguins and fur seals.<\/p>\n

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Nightingale Island with Middle and Stoltenhoff Islands in the background.<\/div>\n

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After Nightingale Island the RMS proceeded to Inaccessible Island with it\u2019s sheer cliffs all around.<\/div>\n

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Inaccessible Island looking, well, inaccessible.<\/div>\n

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Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross<\/div>\n

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Antarctic tern<\/div>\n

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After visiting it\u2019s nearest neighbours, we returned to Tristan da Cunha in the afternoon to see if conditions were suitable for anchoring overnight.<\/div>\n

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Approaching Tristan da Cunha from the south.<\/div>\n

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With the conditions not suitable for anchoring we returned to Inaccessible island and anchored in Carlisle Bay for the night.<\/div>\n

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We had steamed offshore for the night and on the morning of Jan 5th we approached Nightingale Island and proceeded to circumnavigate the island. The island in uninhabited, but has a hut Tristanians use for fishing trips. The island is home to huge colonies of seabirds, northern rockhopper penguins and fur seals. Nightingale Island with … Continue reading “Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands”<\/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-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}