{"id":26085,"date":"2014-06-25T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=26085"},"modified":"2014-06-27T20:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:16:04","slug":"inside-middle-earth-taiaroa-head-otago-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/inside-middle-earth-taiaroa-head-otago-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Middle Earth: Taiaroa Head \/ Otago Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a <strong>The Lord Of The Rings<\/strong> or <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong> film locale, but it&#8217;s still a favourite spot &#8212; and Taiaroa Head itself home to a Royal Albatross colony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/inside-middle-earth-taiaroa-head-otago-peninsula\/beths-photos-unedited-343a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26086\" title=\"Beths Photos - Unedited 343a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-343a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-343a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-343a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-343a.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Plus other local residents: a Yellow-eyed Penguin &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/inside-middle-earth-taiaroa-head-otago-peninsula\/beths-photos-unedited-376a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26087\" title=\"Beths Photos - Unedited 376a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-376a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-376a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-376a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-376a.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And (I think) a fur seal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/inside-middle-earth-taiaroa-head-otago-peninsula\/beths-photos-unedited-424a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26088\" title=\"Beths Photos - Unedited 424a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-424a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-424a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-424a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Beths-Photos-Unedited-424a.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre>Credit for all three photos to B Miller.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a The Lord Of The Rings or The Hobbit film locale, but it&#8217;s still a favourite spot &#8212; and Taiaroa Head itself home to a Royal Albatross colony. Plus other local residents: a Yellow-eyed Penguin &#8212; And (I think) a fur seal: . Credit for all three photos to B Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085","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=26085"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26104,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions\/26104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}