{"id":150,"date":"2013-01-01T17:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:55:12","slug":"i-saw-a-traffic-light-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/01\/i-saw-a-traffic-light-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw a traffic light today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a traffic light today! My first in about 2 weeks – since Townsville, anyway. It’s funny how you can travel that long in Australia and not really think about them. Then you suddenly see your first one in a long time and are a bit taken aback. The traffic light was near Cairns, where I have come for a few days. I enjoyed the Four Wheel Drive track so much on the drive up to Cooktown from Cape Tribulation (which was really quite quick and more direct) that I seriously considered taking it south, but I’m glad I chose to take the two-wheel-drive route instead because it turned out to be a very beautiful drive through many changing environments.<\/p>\n

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