{"id":352,"date":"2009-12-20T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:30:55","slug":"shipwrecked-sands-of-sinquerim-candolim-calangute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Shipwrecked Sands of Sinquerim, Candolim &#038; Calangute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White sands stretch 7km southward from Baga, through Calangute, Candolim and finally Sinquerim. Nestled in the southern end of coastline between Candolim and Sinquerim lies the Merchant Vessel, the River Princess. After running aground ten years ago, it has caused environmental issues, such as rusted shards of steel on the beach. It does however make an interesting photo subject!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1393.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1393-s.jpg\" title=\"Lifeguards Calangute\" alt=\"Lifeguards Calangute\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLifeguards on duty in Calangute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1422.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1422-s.jpg\" title=\"Fisherman Calangute, Goa, India\" alt=\"Fisherman Calangute, Goa, India\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFisherman, untangling his nets<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1423.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1423-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1429.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1429-s.jpg\" title=\"Fresh juice Goa\" alt=\"Fresh juice Goa\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSelling fresh fruit on the beach of Calangute<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Angus and I decided to hire a taxi from Calangute to the River Princess shipwreck. Frustratingly, taxis aren&#8217;t metered in Goa, and they usually offer exhorbitant cash amounts up front. Several times the cost than in Mumbai! After finally negotiating a van driver down to just 200 Rupees ($6), we took the 10min trip further along the beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1472.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1472-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMore cows \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1474.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1474-s.jpg\" title=\"Cows and stray dogs Goa\" alt=\"Cows and stray dogs Goa\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStray dogs give the cows some problems, as we witnessed on various beaches<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1477.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1477-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhilst other cows must be wary of their own kind<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1493.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1493-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1496.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1496-s.jpg\" title=\"Parasailing Goa\" alt=\"Parasailing Goa\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nParasailing across Candolim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1498.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1498-s.jpg\" title=\"Jet Skies River Princess\" alt=\"Jet Skies River Princess\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJet skis near the stern of the River Princess<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1504.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1504-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1507.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1507-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1521.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1521-s.jpg\" title=\"Calf Goa\" alt=\"Calf Goa\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1523.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1523-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1528.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1528-s.jpg\" title=\"River Princess Silhouette, Goa\" alt=\"River Princess Silhouette, Goa\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRiver Princess silhouetted<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1561.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1561-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBow of the River Princess, with the sun setting through the hazy sky<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/indian_water.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/indian_water-s.gif\" title=\"Candolim Beach Shipwreck Animation\" alt=\"Candolim Beach Shipwreck Animation\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSeveral exposures with the incoming tide<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/goa_jump.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/goa_jump-s.gif\" title=\"Goa Jump Animation\" alt=\"Goa Jump Animation\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJumping fun (shot by Angus)<\/p>\n<p>As twilight set in, I shot a few long exposures with various filters:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1631.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1631-s.jpg\" title=\"Candolim Beach Shipwreck Sunset\" alt=\"Candolim Beach Shipwreck Sunset\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo filters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1632.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1632-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo graduated ND filters on top (.6 hard and .9 soft)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1633.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_1633-s.jpg\" title=\"5 minute exposure\" alt=\"5 minute exposure\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n5 minute exposure<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=warrenwilliams\" class=\"addthis_button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" style=\"border: 0px none\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White sands stretch 7km southward from Baga, through Calangute, Candolim and finally Sinquerim. Nestled in the southern end of coastline between Candolim and Sinquerim lies the Merchant Vessel, the River Princess. After running aground ten years ago, it has caused environmental issues, such as rusted shards of steel on the beach. It does however make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-landscape","category-transportation","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}