{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-08T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T09:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T05:38:19","slug":"curlew-island-8092008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Curlew Island, 8\/09\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the day at anchor today, hoping that the south-easterlies will abate and maybe back to the east (or north-east even &#8211; please!).<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne and Anna took the Fish Hunter (inflatable dinghy) out to the beach early in the morning to scout around, while I stayed on board to sort out a number of little jobs and do a general clean-up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/anna_rowing.jpg\" alt=\"Anna rowing herself and Yvonne to shore at Curlew Island\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later in the afternoon Yvonne and I decided to climb the higher of the two peaks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/climbing.jpg\" alt=\"Ascending the western peak at Curlew Island\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This turned into a serious climb&#8230; As usual it was steeper than it looked and the bush was dense to the point that it was a challenge to find a way up. Getting to the top was well worth it though. We had fabulous views in all wind directions and a stunning vista over the anchorage to the east.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/curlew_from_hill.jpg\" alt=\"Panorama over anchorage at Curlew Island\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The descent was even more challenging than going up! We took a nominally flatter route (still quite steep, leaving us a with a bit of a hike at the water&#8217;s edge. As it was now high tide this caused its own little challenges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/yvonne_climbing.jpg\" alt=\"Descending the hill at Curlew Island was harder than going up!\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the day at anchor today, hoping that the south-easterlies will abate and maybe back to the east (or north-east even &#8211; please!). Yvonne and Anna took the Fish Hunter (inflatable dinghy) out to the beach early in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,50],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages","tag-anchorage","tag-curlew-island"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgewA-36","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}