{"id":28911,"date":"2015-05-03T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28911"},"modified":"2015-05-02T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T08:07:25","slug":"inside-the-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/inside-the-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/inside-the-road-trip\/lake-hayes-012a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28912\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28912\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-012a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Hayes 012a\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-012a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-012a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-012a.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, I focused on the <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/wild-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild South <\/a>part of m&#8217;road trip, which ended with some &#8216;classic&#8217; shots of Queenstown and its environs.<\/p>\n<p>While there, I had also posted some photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/autumn-glory-from-inside-middle-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">autumn colour<\/a> around Lake Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>The day I took those days was almost perfect and the wider environment around the lake &#8212; a wee jewel caught in the hills between Queenstown and Arrowtown &#8212; is also worthy of a closer look.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28943\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/inside-the-road-trip\/2015-04-18-12-48-59\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28943\" class=\"wp-image-28943 \" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-18-12.48.59-1024x184.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-18 12.48.59\" width=\"613\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-18-12.48.59-1024x184.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-18-12.48.59-150x27.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-04-18-12.48.59-300x54.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wee jewel of a lake (photo: A Robins)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/inside-the-road-trip\/lake-hayes-035a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28913\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-035a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Hayes 035a\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-035a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-035a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-035a.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Despite the tranquil waters, you can still see the raw power in the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Schist rock is one of the area&#8217;s traditional building materials, although not all the old buildings are in such good condition as the one immediately below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/inside-the-road-trip\/lake-hayes-031a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28914\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-031a-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Hayes 031a\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-031a-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-031a-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-031a.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And rising beyond lake, trees, and hills, the snow of what I &#8216;think&#8217; is one of New Zealand&#8217;s more famous mountain&#8217;s, because of its ski field, Coronet Peak: <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/inside-the-road-trip\/lake-hayes-029a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28916 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-029a.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Hayes 029a\" width=\"615\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-029a.jpg 615w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-029a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lake-Hayes-029a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I focused on the Wild South part of m&#8217;road trip, which ended with some &#8216;classic&#8217; shots of Queenstown and its environs. While there, I had also posted some photos of autumn colour around Lake Hayes. The day I took those days was almost perfect and the wider environment around the lake &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/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-28911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911","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=28911"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28938,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911\/revisions\/28938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}