{"id":19170,"date":"2014-11-24T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/lindblad-expeditions-in-the-south-pacific-foiled-by-nuatoputapu\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:43:00","slug":"lindblad-expeditions-in-the-south-pacific-foiled-by-nuatoputapu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/11\/lindblad-expeditions-in-the-south-pacific-foiled-by-nuatoputapu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindblad Expeditions in the South Pacific: Foiled by Nuatoputapu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eAqVsbyAPd8\/VHLvsgJAR3I\/AAAAAAAAqlA\/DcTKsYfWMuM\/s1600\/Nuatoputapu_7490-709314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eAqVsbyAPd8\/VHLvsgJAR3I\/AAAAAAAAqlA\/DcTKsYfWMuM\/s320\/Nuatoputapu_7490-709314.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Zodiacs probe for entry through the lagoon at Nuatoputapu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YzYPOj57ZWc\/VHLvtTVRC6I\/AAAAAAAAqlM\/bI7qTZtoUVw\/s1600\/zodiac_7487-712514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YzYPOj57ZWc\/VHLvtTVRC6I\/AAAAAAAAqlM\/bI7qTZtoUVw\/s320\/zodiac_7487-712514.jpg\" height=\"260\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nPqNrGos46M\/VHLvuIEGQ7I\/AAAAAAAAqlY\/GFDXkHdYgCs\/s1600\/Nuatopu-715786.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nPqNrGos46M\/VHLvuIEGQ7I\/AAAAAAAAqlY\/GFDXkHdYgCs\/s320\/Nuatopu-715786.jpg\" height=\"296\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GPS tracking shows Tim&#8217;s attempts to find an entry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sunday 23 November 2014<\/p>\n<p>15 deg 57.13 S 173 deg 45.6 W<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes called Keppel or Traitors Island, the locals served up a warm reception for Dutch circumnavigator, Willem Schouten in 1616. So warm in fact that muskets were needed to cool down the welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Today Nuatoputapu would thwart us as we tried to get ashore for a village visit. The falling tide made finding the tiny channel tricky and outboard props were tilted almost to 45 degrees to try and avoid striking the limestone bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Expedition leader, Tim Soper, a chap very experienced in navigating reefs and shoals in the robust Zodiac tenders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think we&#8217;ve found the channel now,&#8221; calls Tim over the 2-way to our skipper, Dave Cothran, interrupting an impromptu lecture on atoll formation under way in the brief lull in our forward progress.<\/p>\n<p>But that progress fell agonisingly short of our objective, the village of Hihifo in the SW corner of the island. With tide continually falling Tim, imagining the bosun&#8217;s displeasure at damaged propellers, called stumps and the tiny fleet made its way back to the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Such is expedition cruising.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zodiacs probe for entry through the lagoon at Nuatoputapu GPS tracking shows Tim&#8217;s attempts to find an entry Sunday 23 November 2014 15 deg 57.13 S 173 deg 45.6 W Sometimes called Keppel or Traitors Island, the locals served up a warm reception for Dutch circumnavigator, Willem Schouten in 1616. So warm in fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lindblad-expeditions","category-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}