{"id":3123,"date":"2009-11-13T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2009-11-14T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:19:47","slug":"day-98-ki-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Day 98 KI Second Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what can I say?<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day being driven around the island without really seeing much of anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Coach1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3126\" title=\"Coach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Coach1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Coach\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Coach1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Coach1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Coach1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a place that is promoted as nature&#8217;s wonderland, it was almost impossible to spot anything that was alive. The enormous koala population was decimated during the 2007 bushfires and I think the other purported critters are imaginary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sign11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3127\" title=\"Sign1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sign11-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Sign1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sign11-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sign11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sign11.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was, seriously, as close as you were allowed to get to the seals at Seal Bay, it was $27.50 for the privilege of being this &#8216;close&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Seals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3128\" title=\"Seals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Seals-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Seals\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Seals-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Seals-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Seals.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next was the &#8216;Birds of Prey&#8217; presentation, at least they were alive if not free. I did see a kookaburra do an amazing thing with its head, basically the body can be going in many directions but the head will stay perfectly still, quite bizzare to watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Eagle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3129\" title=\"Eagle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Eagle-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Eagle\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Eagle-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Eagle-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Eagle.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moving right along to &#8216;Remarkable Rocks&#8217; that weren&#8217;t really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3130\" title=\"Remarkable\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Remarkable\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3131\" title=\"Remarkable1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Remarkable1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Remarkable1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Final destination was &#8216;Admiral&#8217;s Arch&#8217; that was exactly like it looked in photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3132\" title=\"Arch1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Arch1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3134\" title=\"Arch2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch2-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Arch2\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch2-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Arch2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have booked on the 10:30am ferry to leave the island, not sure where I will get to tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what can I say? Spent the day being driven around the island without really seeing much of anything. For a place that is promoted as nature&#8217;s wonderland, it was almost impossible to spot anything that was alive. The enormous koala population was decimated during the 2007 bushfires and I think the other purported critters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}