{"id":131,"date":"2008-04-01T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/if-you-cant-watch-it-eat-it\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T08:48:20","slug":"if-you-cant-watch-it-eat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/if-you-cant-watch-it-eat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t watch it, eat it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/crayfish.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Kaikoura is famous for its marine wildlife, especially the resident whales, so our plan was to go on a whale watching boat trip. The wind had other ideas, and with our tour cancelled due to bad weather we vowed to return (and find Mum a whale watch near the UK somewhere), then continued up the coast.<br \/>\nNot far along we passed Nins Bin, promising freshly cooked crayfish, and green lipped mussels, New Zealand delicacies. The crayfish is like a small lobster, and the cook (Nin?) had helpfully sliced the beast down the middle, revealing the egg sacks. The mussels were huge, three times the size of others I&#8217;d eaten, but they went in the mouth whole! Now I&#8217;m not one for shellfish, but Mum and I had a good crack whilst Caroline nibbled and prodded, and Cat and Ian stayed at a safe distance. Here&#8217;s hoping I avoid any food poisoning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaikoura is famous for its marine wildlife, especially the resident whales, so our plan was to go on a whale watching boat trip. The wind had other ideas, and with our tour cancelled due to bad weather we vowed to return (and find Mum a whale watch near the UK somewhere), then continued up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/04\/01\/if-you-cant-watch-it-eat-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you can&#8217;t watch it, eat it!&#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\/131"}],"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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}