{"id":91,"date":"2008-02-20T00:43:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/camping-with-the-roos\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T00:43:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:43:54","slug":"camping-with-the-roos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/camping-with-the-roos\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping with the Roos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/prettybeachroo.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Our wee van has done a fair number of kilometres, 419,000 in fact, although we&#8217;re only responsible for 5,500 of them. Either way, it needed a few repairs so we had some more time to kill in Jervis Bay. Kitting myself out with a snorkel, I went in search of the marine wildlife, and found some in the form of stingrays, some other bottom dwelling fish and a fair bit of seaweed (which scares the bejesus out of you). The sea was a tad murky, but now I&#8217;ve got my own gear I&#8217;ll be looking in the sea at any given opportunity!<br \/>\nWith van fixed, the journey was back on, with camp for the night at Pretty Beach, which to be fair is actually quite pretty. We&#8217;re in a national park, and the wildlife abounds, with the obiligatory Kookaburras, and a possum that appears to have decided it would like to try a curry.  The best bit, however, is the herd(?) of grey kangaroos that are happily chewing their way through the campsite grass. There&#8217;s so many, and they are so unperturbed by humans that I just about tripped over a little one on the way to the kitchen. It&#8217;s a pretty cool feeling to know that if you open your door, chances are there&#8217;ll be a couple of kangaroos outside, how much more Australian can you get?<br \/>\nUpdate: Either the possum is a practical joker, or there&#8217;s a clumsy roo out there as something pulled the power cable out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our wee van has done a fair number of kilometres, 419,000 in fact, although we&#8217;re only responsible for 5,500 of them. Either way, it needed a few repairs so we had some more time to kill in Jervis Bay. Kitting myself out with a snorkel, I went in search of the marine wildlife, and found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/camping-with-the-roos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camping with the Roos&#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\/91"}],"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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}