{"id":746,"date":"2012-02-22T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.10.99\/KES\/?p=746"},"modified":"2016-10-04T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:48:52","slug":"brash-ice-at-neko-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/brash-ice-at-neko-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Brash Ice at Neko Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph Body\"><a href=\"\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0785_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-748\" src=\"\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0785_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0785_1\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0785_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0785_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0785_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\">64d 50m 38.1s S, 62s 31m 51.5s W (WP130)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\">With each excursion into the land of ice and snow, my \u201cice vocabulary\u201d expanded. We had experienced some sea ice (salt-water ice) and pack ice on the skirts of the Weddell Sea two days ago, and today we got to see \u201cpancake ice\u201d when the sea-ice is just about to freeze, and \u201cbrash-ice\u201d which is ice-packs created by the breakup of glaciers (fresh-water) and then recombining in the sea. I was reminded of that story about how the Eskimos have so many words for snow, and now I could understand that. The land of ice is very varied indeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\">We arrived in sheltered Neko Harbour off the Andvord Bay. Another Gentoo rookery met us on the beaches, and we climbed up to the ridge to take in 360 degrees of amazing scenery of glaciers and mountains emerging from the sea, a sea dotted with ice bergs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\">After exploring the ground, we did some cruising among the icebergs and enjoyed minutes watching two 40-foot humpback whales spy-hopping (when they poke their nose up) and doing roll-overs. I hope my video came out, but for now below is a sea-monster picture of one of the whales. I did search to find the eye, but alas, it\u2019s lost among all the barnacles. \ud83d\ude42 It is a good sea-monster picture, tho\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\"><a href=\"\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC03380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-749\" src=\"\/KES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC03380-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dsc03380\" width=\"469\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph Body\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Unnamed humpback whale spotted in Neko Harbor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>64d 50m 38.1s S, 62s 31m 51.5s W (WP130) With each excursion into the land of ice and snow, my \u201cice vocabulary\u201d expanded. We had experienced some sea ice (salt-water ice) and pack ice on the skirts of the Weddell Sea two days ago, and today we got to see \u201cpancake ice\u201d when the sea-ice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/brash-ice-at-neko-harbor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brash Ice at Neko Harbor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}