{"id":262,"date":"2014-03-04T17:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-02-05T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:09:46","slug":"201434sir-charles-saunders-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Sir Charles Saunders Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On its discovery, it was so densely covered by high tussock grass, that the illustrator from the sea, thought that the bushes were trees and added palm trees to good effect. Pigs, cattle, goats and sheep have seen off the tussock and the island looks sadly bare today.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Rook deserves a special mention<\/p>\n<p>The books say that they will allow you to approach quite close \u2014 their spook distance is small. That is incorrect. They like red things; and cameras; and sunnies; and Landies. They also are intensely curious and having hovered over your head, will land about 2 metres away and then walk to you with only 1 metre gap.  They are not keen though on workfare. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-656\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15108.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[262]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15108-4000x2667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-large wp-image-656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15108-4000x2667.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15108-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saunders settlement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-657\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15123.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[262]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15123-4000x2667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-large wp-image-657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15123-4000x2667.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15123-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saunders airstrip, Falkland Islands, FIGAS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-658\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15146.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[262]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15146-4000x2667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-large wp-image-658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15146-4000x2667.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15146-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falkland Islands, Striated Caracara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660\" style=\"width: 3130px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-14-03-23-16677.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[262]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-14-03-23-16677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3130\" height=\"1837\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-14-03-23-16677.jpg 3130w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-14-03-23-16677-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3130px) 100vw, 3130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No we won&#8217;t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-659\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15153.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[262]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15153-4000x2667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" class=\"size-large wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15153-4000x2667.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IAG-2014-03-03-15153-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">more for the birds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its discovery, it was so densely covered by high tussock grass, that the illustrator from the sea, thought that the bushes were trees and added palm trees to good effect. Pigs, cattle, goats and sheep have seen off the tussock and the island looks sadly bare today. Johnny Rook deserves a special mention The books say that they will allow you to approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}