{"id":8132,"date":"2016-12-25T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2017-05-16T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:17:02","slug":"west-coast-exploring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/?p=8132","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Exploring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first proper long trip motocamping adventure on the groms.<\/p>\n<h2>Day 1 &#8211; ChCh to Arthurs Pass &#8211; 161 km<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wiggled through the back roads as much as possible<\/li>\n<li>Heavy winds going up to Arthurs pass.<\/li>\n<li>Waiting out the rain in a shelter<\/li>\n<li>Doing some exploring<\/li>\n<li>Camping at Klondyke Corner &nbsp;and worrying about Keas all night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/gallery\/20161225-west-coast\/20161227_190730.jpg\" alt=\"20161227_190730\"><\/p>\n<h2>Day 2 &#8211; &nbsp;Arthurs Pass to Lake Kaniere &#8211; &nbsp;169 km<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Freezing cold through the pass<\/li>\n<li>Much more fun on the slower back roads to&nbsp;Hookitika<\/li>\n<li>Pies from the petrol station at Hokitika are crap<\/li>\n<li>Cool couch on the beach<\/li>\n<li>Scenic back roads to lake kaniere<\/li>\n<li>Lake kaniere &#8211; bit meh, very busy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/gallery\/20161225-west-coast\/20161228_112812-2.jpg\" alt=\"20161228_112812-2\"><\/p>\n<h2>Day 3 &#8211; Lake Kaniere to Lake Brunner &#8211; 220 km<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Full on day<\/li>\n<li>First water crossings<\/li>\n<li>Lots of dirt roads&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Frustrated with locked gates&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Vickis boots are not waterproof<\/li>\n<li>Nice little detour through some twisty roads<\/li>\n<li>Lake Brunner is pretty<\/li>\n<li>Hit 2000 km on the odo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/gallery\/20161225-west-coast\/20161229_085221.jpg\" alt=\"20161229_085221\"><\/p>\n<h2>Day 4 &#8211; Lake Brunner to ChCh &#8211; 211 km<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Good to be heading home<\/li>\n<li>Low on petrol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/gallery\/20161225-west-coast\/20161229_210104.jpg\" alt=\"20161229_210104\"><\/p>\n<hr>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring  some of the west coast on the Groms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvmis.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}