{"id":103,"date":"2008-03-03T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/the-great-ocean-road\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T09:03:17","slug":"the-great-ocean-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/the-great-ocean-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Ocean Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/greatoceanroad1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Our traveller count has increased by one today with the arrival of my (Simon&#8217;s) Dad, who is currently doing an around the world jaunt of his own and arrived from New Zealand this morning to join us for a few days.<br \/>\nThe morning started with a chill in the air, a reported 9 degrees, which is probably the first time we&#8217;ve been in single figure temperatures for a while. But, as they say in Victoria, if you don&#8217;t like the weather wait 10 minutes, and true to form there was soon a bit of heat from the sun.<br \/>\nThe Great Ocean Road was built after the First World War as a memorial to the soldiers, and a mighty fine memorial it is too. The huge sandstone cliffs have been carved away with pick and shovel (although I&#8217;m convinced they must have used explosives, or at least gone through quite a few shovels) to create what must be one of the finest tourist routes around. An attempt to find waterfalls proved futile, as there hasn&#8217;t been too much rain recently. However there were scores of sulphur crested cockatoos flying around Teddy&#8217;s Lookout in Lorne to keep us entertained, and even kangaroos in the distance to provide Dad with his first glimpse of them, although they were so far away we&#8217;re not sure it really counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our traveller count has increased by one today with the arrival of my (Simon&#8217;s) Dad, who is currently doing an around the world jaunt of his own and arrived from New Zealand this morning to join us for a few days. The morning started with a chill in the air, a reported 9 degrees, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/the-great-ocean-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Ocean Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}