{"id":295,"date":"2013-01-04T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-01-07T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T10:17:22","slug":"glancing-at-the-whitsundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/04\/glancing-at-the-whitsundays\/","title":{"rendered":"Glancing at the Whitsundays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived at Arlie Beach after spending another night at Bowling Green National Park just south of Townsville.  A bit of an adjustment being back in a tent in this sweltering humid heat after 6 days in air conditioned YHA rooms.  It was very hard to get to sleep and although the mosquitoes were not nearly as bad this time, they were still trying to make a comeback.  I did discover one new thing about the place: it is full of great swimming holes a short hike from the camp sites.  They discourage you from swimming there, but not too many people listen because their were many people there to cool off.  Only problem was that the water was warmer than the hot art (or so it seemed).  Had been a beautiful drive down from Cairnes along mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Arlie Beach is one of the main hubs to the Whitsunday Islands.  I had reserved a national park campsite nearby on a beach with the caveat of a 2km hike in from the parking lot.  My plan was always to check it out by mountain bike and shuttle my stuff if all good.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=1972357\">Arlie Beach Campsite Investigation<\/a><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/iframe2.php?trip_id=1972357&#038;width=500&#038;height=400\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Along the way I met up with some hikers who politely pointed out that mountain bikes were not permitted on the trail (a sign I missed), but were very supportive of me riding it, anyway.  Between the distance to the beach, rough enough track for cycling, and my officially not being allowed to cycle in there, and the run down nature of the actual deserted campsites, I decided to aim for a local caravan park.  The first one I approached wanted $48 for an unpowered tent site!  That&#8217;s a record.  I found a much cheaper option just down the road.  Only problem with it is the neighboring airport with a steady stream of incoming small planes and helicopters.  Hopefully all will be quiet tonight.<\/p>\n<p>As for Arlie, its not really what I&#8217;m looking for at the moment (coming too soon after Cairns) with too many developments and not enough wilderness.  More nice looking beaches you can&#8217;t swim at due to stingers.  Officially below croc line, I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived at Arlie Beach after spending another night at Bowling Green National Park just south of Townsville. A bit of an adjustment being back in a tent in this sweltering humid heat after 6 days in air conditioned YHA rooms. It was very hard to get to sleep and although the mosquitoes were not nearly&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/04\/glancing-at-the-whitsundays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glancing at the Whitsundays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","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":[2,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-queensland","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-4L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}