{"id":37,"date":"2012-01-05T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-01-11T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:59:05","slug":"its-summertime-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/2012\/01\/05\/its-summertime-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Summertime in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a very long and posterior numbing trip from Boston to Amsterdam (7 1\/2 hours) and then Amsterdam to Cape Town (11 1\/2 hours), we&#8217;ve finally arrived in South African summer. Our accommodation is outside of the city, in Constantia, because of a Cricket Test Match with Sri Lanka. It&#8217;s all wickets and overs in the media, with the outcome of the tournament providing bragging rights for the next few years. South Africa already lost to Australia in a November Test Match, and Sri Lanka may overtake the Proteas during this engagement. We&#8217;re off to stock up on dry food&#8211;the selection in Cape Town is much wider than in Graaf Reinet&#8211;and begin to adjust to the 7-hour time change.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a day for getting over jet lag, shopping for provisions, wine tasting at Groot Constantia, and a trip to Boulders to see the northern most colony of African (Jackass) Penguins.\u00a0 Dinner was over a setting sun overlooking False Bay without any notice of a great white shark.<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/files\/2012\/01\/Arrival_5Jan12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/files\/2012\/01\/Arrival_5Jan12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A bit of wine tasting at Groot Constantia.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-69\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-69'>\n\t\t\t\tTo celebrate our arrival, we stopped at Groot Constantia for a bit of wine tasting of their 2010 vintage.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/files\/2012\/01\/HoutBay_5Jan12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/files\/2012\/01\/HoutBay_5Jan12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dan, Tara &amp; Kody in Hout Bay\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70'>\n\t\t\t\tDan, Tara, &amp; Kody get a taste of Antarctic waters in Hout Bay.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/files\/2012\/01\/Boulders_5JAN12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/files\/2012\/01\/Boulders_5JAN12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we&#8217;re headed over the Cape Fold Belt into the Karoo Basin, where the rocks of Permian-Triassic boundary are exposed, and will meet up with the remainder of our field party from various parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very long and posterior numbing trip from Boston to Amsterdam (7 1\/2 hours) and then Amsterdam to Cape Town (11 1\/2 hours), we&#8217;ve finally arrived in South African summer. Our accommodation is outside of the city, in Constantia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/2012\/01\/05\/its-summertime-in-cape-town\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/extinctsouthafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}