{"id":17579,"date":"2016-06-15T07:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17579"},"modified":"2016-06-15T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:04:21","slug":"a-moose-swims-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17579","title":{"rendered":"A moose swims by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I watched a moose swim along a shoreline in the rain. Previously, I have only ever seen a moose swim across a lake. However, moose are comfortable in water\u00a0and have been known to swim for twenty kilometres. This male only swam about 500 metres before coming ashore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17582\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/moose160613bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the time it climbed out, the rain had nearly stopped.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17581\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/moose160613cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then wandered off through the brush.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17580\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/moose160613ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before climbing out, it stopped briefly to stare at my camera. However, a moose&#8217;s poor vision probably prevents it from understanding digital photography. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17583\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/moose160613as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I watched a moose swim along a shoreline in the rain. Previously, I have only ever seen a moose swim across a lake. However, moose are comfortable in water\u00a0and have been known to swim for twenty kilometres. This male &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17579"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17611,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions\/17611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}