{"id":464,"date":"2011-11-07T22:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2011-11-07T22:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:17:28","slug":"a-skink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"A skink!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mangrove Boardwalk has, so far, come up with something new every time I&#8217;ve been there. For instance, recent highlights were egrets and herons. On Sunday we were treated to a very rare sight: A bar-sided skink! They do live in the mangroves but are rarely seen. This one sat in the dappled sunlight, enjoying the warmth, for quite some time. Enough time to switch to a telephoto lens and set up a tripod.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bar-sided-Skink.jpg\" alt=\"Bar-sided Skink\" title=\"Bar-sided Skink\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-470\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bar-sided Skink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the skink was the highlight, we saw plenty of other flora and fauna. Enjoy this selection!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-464 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=471'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Crab.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Crab\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-471\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-471'>\n\t\t\t\tCrab\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=467'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Caught-Beetle.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Beetle\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-467\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-467'>\n\t\t\t\tCaught Beetle\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=466'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Reflected-Ibis.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Reflected Ibis\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-466\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-466'>\n\t\t\t\tReflected Ibis\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=465'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Partially-eaten-Leaf.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Partially-eaten Leaf\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-465\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-465'>\n\t\t\t\tPartially-eaten Leaf\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=469'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/New-Leaf.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"New Leaf\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-469\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-469'>\n\t\t\t\tNew Leaf\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=468'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Shadows.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Shadows\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-468\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-468'>\n\t\t\t\tShadows\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mangrove Boardwalk has, so far, come up with something new every time I&#8217;ve been there. For instance, recent highlights were egrets and herons. On Sunday we were treated to a very rare sight: A bar-sided skink! They do live in the mangroves but are rarely seen. This one sat in the dappled sunlight, enjoying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A skink!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}