{"id":611,"date":"2014-09-11T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-10-17T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T00:32:47","slug":"broughton-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Broughton Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_615\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/673A2787.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/673A2787-500x165.jpg\" alt=\"Providence Beach, Broughton Island\" width=\"500\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/673A2787-500x165.jpg 500w, https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/673A2787.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Providence Beach, Broughton Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Broughton Island&#8230; Often wanted to stop there, but the conditions were never right.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wild and pristine (if you overlook the prickly pear that has invaded large areas of the vegetation near the shore).<\/p>\n<p>There are three campsites in Esmaralda Cove, on timber platforms with tiedowns for the tent lines &#8211; very nicely done. I&#8217;ll send you photos when I&#8217;ve processed them.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed in North Bay\/Providence Beach as I knew we were due for a southerly overnight, but there&#8217;s a footpath across to Esmaralda Cove, only a couple of hundred metres hike. Unfortunately the rest of the island is covered in very dense scrub (and prickly pear) so I couldn&#8217;t explore inland or get to the little peak. I tried! I did hike along the shore though and it is very beautiful. Lots of rock pools and kelp beds etc. Must be good snorkeling there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broughton Island&#8230; Often wanted to stop there, but the conditions were never right. It&#8217;s wild and pristine (if you overlook the prickly pear that has invaded large areas of the vegetation near the shore). There are three campsites in Esmaralda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}