{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-16T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/16\/leeches-or-beaches\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T13:31:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:31:45","slug":"leeches-or-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/16\/leeches-or-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeches or beaches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lifeblogimage\"><img src=\/blogimages\/WorldTour\/img22JpHi.jpg><\/img><\/div>\n<p>Ok, so walking barefoot around the wet campsite probably wasn&#8217;t the wisest thing to do, especially considering the fact we were only about 5km from those leech warning signs from yesterday. However, there&#8217;s nothing quite like a leech attached to your ankle to wake you up, really give you the willies, make you scream like a little girl then never be able to look at wet grass the same again. Before you wonder, no I didn&#8217;t cut it off my leg (the knife wasn&#8217;t handy at the time), several determined flicks finally detached it from it&#8217;s dinner, and a photo of it on my leg would&#8217;ve been good, but even I sometimes have other things on my mind.<br \/>\nWith that excitement over, the route continued north and back to the beaches, taking us through miles of forest and grazing land, and even though we&#8217;ve only scratched inland a little, it starts to make you realise how big a country Australia is. En route was the little village of Maclean, an oasis of Scotland next to the huge Clarence River. Each lamppost had a tartan painted on it and the butchers sold square sausage, now that&#8217;s something Caroline just can&#8217;t pass by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so walking barefoot around the wet campsite probably wasn&#8217;t the wisest thing to do, especially considering the fact we were only about 5km from those leech warning signs from yesterday. However, there&#8217;s nothing quite like a leech attached to your ankle to wake you up, really give you the willies, make you scream like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/16\/leeches-or-beaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leeches or beaches?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}