{"id":89,"date":"2008-02-17T01:24:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/waterfalls-and-blowholes\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T01:24:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:24:32","slug":"waterfalls-and-blowholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/waterfalls-and-blowholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfalls and Blowholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0014318_m.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>The national parks here are ridiculous sizes, Morton National park where we are is a mere 190,000 hectares. Enough space to find somewhere else to walk and avoid the leeches of yesterday!<br \/>\nSo after a 3km walk around the escarpment (that&#8217;s a cliff to the uninitiated like myself), passing waterfalls at every corner, we started the descent to the coast. As you&#8217;ve probably guessed by now, Aussies don&#8217;t do things by halves, and after a few kilometres of steep descent the van started emitting a funny smell, probably just the brakes on fire!<br \/>\nThe bottom of the hill was Kiama, site of two blowholes, where the rock allows waves underneath and up through a hole. The larger blowhole looks like the Sarlacc  (sand beast) from Return of the Jedi, and every so often a big whoosh is followed by a jet of water squirting up. The smaller blowhole is only about a foot square, but the water squirts higher and the whoosh is louder &#8211; it&#8217;s also easier to hear without everyone oohing and aahing in the background!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national parks here are ridiculous sizes, Morton National park where we are is a mere 190,000 hectares. Enough space to find somewhere else to walk and avoid the leeches of yesterday! So after a 3km walk around the escarpment (that&#8217;s a cliff to the uninitiated like myself), passing waterfalls at every corner, we started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/waterfalls-and-blowholes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waterfalls and Blowholes&#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\/89"}],"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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}