{"id":32169,"date":"2016-05-06T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32169"},"modified":"2016-05-05T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T08:58:15","slug":"inside-middle-earth-abel-tasman-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/inside-middle-earth-abel-tasman-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Middle Earth: Abel Tasman National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LoTR<\/a>A great many people around the world chiefly know New Zealand as \u201cMiddle Earth\u201d in The Lord of the Rings<\/strong> films.<\/p>\n

As a Fantasy author living right here in Middle Earth, I feel it’s my bounden duty to share the occasional image or images of \u201cmy\u201d Middle Earth on the blog — and as I recently went on holiday to the wonderful Abel Tasman National Park, in the upper north-west section of the South Island, I thought it was time to share some “inside Middle Earth” photos again.<\/p>\n

Technically, I believe it’s official that Abel Tasman did not feature in any of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> or Hobbit<\/em> films, but if NZ be Middle Earth then it’s unquestionable that the National Park is inside it … (I rest my case for the authenticity of the title. \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

Although, in fact, today’s pics are from Kaiteriteri and environs, on our way to our destination, but the beginning of the holiday is still the holiday, and perhaps even its most magical part.<\/p>\n

\"Kaiteriteri<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, Kaiteriteri, close by the entrance to the national park, is definitely a special place. Despite it now being autumn here in the southern hemisphere, the weather was magical, too.<\/p>\n

\"Split<\/a>The famous Split Apple rock<\/em><\/p>\n

As for the sea, and the “getting there” experience (by boat or helicopter only, where we were going), I believe the picture below speaks for itself:<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a><\/p>\n

Look out for “more Inside Middle Earth” photos from t’holiday over the next few weeks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great many people around the world chiefly know New Zealand as \u201cMiddle Earth\u201d in The Lord of the Rings films. As a Fantasy author living right here in Middle Earth, I feel it’s my bounden duty to share the occasional image or images of \u201cmy\u201d Middle Earth on the blog — and as I […]<\/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-32169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32169","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=32169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32178,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32169\/revisions\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}