{"id":575,"date":"2011-12-10T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:38:17","slug":"walrus-islands-state-game-refuge-i-want-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2011\/12\/10\/walrus-islands-state-game-refuge-i-want-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Walrus Islands State Game Refuge: I Want to Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by National Geographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Walrus Islands State Game Refuge is located in Bristol Bay, Alaska. \u00c2\u00a0It consists of a set of islands upon which many, many walrus haul out every summer. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game<\/a> maintains a camp on the islands. It is possible to go there on your own, with a permit, but the best way to travel there seems to be with an outfitter. This paragraph is pulled from the ADFG’s site about the islands…<\/p>\n

Best known among the WISGS islands is Round Island, where each summer large numbers of male walruses haul out on exposed, rocky beaches. Round Island is one of four major terrestrial haulouts in Alaska; the others are Capes Peirce (Togiak NWR), Newenham (Togiak NWR), and Seniavin (near Port Moller). Male walrus return to these haulouts every spring as the ice pack recedes northward, remaining in Bristol Bay to feed they haul out at these beach sites for several days between each feeding foray. The number of walrus using the island fluctuates significantly from year to year. However, up to 14,000 walrus have been counted on Round Island in a single day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the link to the full page:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.adfg.alaska.gov\/index.cfm?adfg=walrusislands.main<\/a><\/p>\n

I would really like to travel to this place. I’ve recently been looking at Planet Earth Adventures’ site. They run expeditions to the Walrus Islands, several configurations, which include a 3-day camp. It’s $1,800 but I’m putting money aside, ’cause I’d really like to go on one of these. Here’s a link to the page about these expeditions.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the setting in the Kindle e-book “How I Learned to Love the Walrus” by Beth Orsoff, which I posted about here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Walrus Islands State Game Refuge is located in Bristol Bay, Alaska. \u00c2\u00a0It consists of a set of islands upon which many, many walrus haul out every summer. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game maintains a camp on the islands. It is possible to go there on your own, with a permit, but the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-real-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3peFG-9h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}