{"id":13035,"date":"2012-04-15T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13035"},"modified":"2012-04-14T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T05:26:35","slug":"a-day-on-otago-peninsular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/15\/a-day-on-otago-peninsular\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day on Otago Peninsular"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Otago Harbour, from the peninsula<\/p><\/div>\n

For five years, I lived on the Otago Peninsular, which I think is one of those very special places, with tremendous natural beauty and scenery.<\/p>\n

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The Pyramids<\/p><\/div>\n

So yesterday I revisted a few of my favourite haunts, including a walk out to Victory Beach via the Pyramids.<\/p>\n

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Detail of the Pyramid formation<\/p><\/div>\n

The tide was in so the paddle wheel of the SS Victory<\/em>, wrecked on this beach in the 19th century (although I believe without loss of life, the very good news), was not visible in the surf.<\/p>\n

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Approach to Victory Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

But it remains a very beautiful spot.<\/p>\n

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On the beach<\/p><\/div>\n

And on return journey I checked out the cottage where I used to live–still looking good!<\/p>\n

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Once, a writer's cottage<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For five years, I lived on the Otago Peninsular, which I think is one of those very special places, with tremendous natural beauty and scenery. So yesterday I revisted a few of my favourite haunts, including a walk out to Victory Beach via the Pyramids. . The tide was in so the paddle wheel of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13035"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13052,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions\/13052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}