{"id":299,"date":"2013-01-07T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=299"},"modified":"2013-01-08T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:52:00","slug":"bike-friendly-hervey-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/07\/bike-friendly-hervey-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Friendly Hervey Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After another long day of driving, I finally managed to punch through &#8211; out of the Tropic of Capricorn to nice dry Mediterranean style weather.  What a relief it is to be able to take a bike ride without sweating profusely at the slightest effort.  I&#8217;ve arrived in a nice little launch pad for Fraser Island that is VERY bike friendly, has endless beaches, a good ~20km bike path the entire way, a bike friendly 1km long pier\/jetty, nice stinger-free and croc-free swimming, and not too much commercialism or elite resorts clogging the place up.  My kind of place, Hervey Bay.  It seemed very community oriented.  I&#8217;m checked into a YHA here and was a bit taken back to find a lack of air conditioning &#8211; but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to need it because it is cooling off nicely.  Must be in the middle of pineapple land because I&#8217;ve seen quite a few roadside stands selling nothing but since I got here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=1972358\">Hervey Bay Coastal Ride &#038; Swim<\/a><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/iframe2.php?trip_id=1972358&#038;width=500&#038;height=400\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Harvey Bay also looks like it would be a nice cruisey place for sea kayaking due to having no swell, nice clear waters, and a fantastic place to explore just across the bay (Fraser Island).  Just as long as the wind doesn&#8217;t kick up as it always seems to do in the afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another long day of driving, I finally managed to punch through &#8211; out of the Tropic of Capricorn to nice dry Mediterranean style weather. What a relief it is to be able to take a bike ride without sweating profusely at the slightest effort. I&#8217;ve arrived in a nice little launch pad for Fraser&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/07\/bike-friendly-hervey-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bike Friendly Hervey Bay<\/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-299","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-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}