{"id":638,"date":"2007-12-19T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/12\/19\/dunedin-to-lake-tekapo\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T13:19:55","slug":"dunedin-to-lake-tekapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/12\/19\/dunedin-to-lake-tekapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin to Lake Tekapo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left Dunedin on a cold and miserable day, with our first stop being the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moeraki_Boulders\">Moeraki boulders<\/a>.  They&#8217;re big round boulders that have dropped out of a soft cliff onto the beach.  They&#8217;re really not worth getting out of the bus for on a cold, rainy and windy day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/LakeTekapo\/MoerakiBoulders_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/LakeTekapo\/MoerakiBoulders_t.jpg\" title=\"The Moeraki boulders\" alt=\"Big, dark, round boulders on a windswept beach.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After passing lots of hydro-electric dams and various canals bringing water to the dams we eventually reached <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Tekapo\">Lake Tekapo<\/a>.  It features exciting attractions such as a monument to sheepdogs, the church of the Good Shepherd and an observatory (not much use given all the clouds).  Our driver organised a barbecue &mdash; so we sat outside, ate and had a few beers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/LakeTekapo\/SheepdogMonument_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/LakeTekapo\/SheepdogMonument_t.jpg\" title=\"Sheepdog monument at Lake Tekapo.\" alt=\"A statue of a sheepdog in front of a lake and mountains.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/LakeTekapo\/ChurchOfTheGoodShepherd_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NewZealand\/LakeTekapo\/ChurchOfTheGoodShepherd_t.jpg\" title=\"The Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo.\" alt=\"A small stone church in front of a lake and mountains.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Dunedin on a cold and miserable day, with our first stop being the Moeraki boulders. They&#8217;re big round boulders that have dropped out of a soft cliff onto the beach. They&#8217;re really not worth getting out of the bus for on a cold, rainy and windy day. After passing lots of hydro-electric dams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}