{"id":1627,"date":"2018-11-24T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2018-11-24T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:22:50","slug":"botanic-gardens-to-iconic-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/24\/botanic-gardens-to-iconic-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanic Gardens to Iconic Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T115008GMT1100-1536x1152.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before we left the blue mountains we enjoyed the view at Govetts Leap (no crowds!)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T102129GMT1100-1536x673.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"673\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because I can&#8217;t walk far today we took the scenic Bells Line of Road loop and visited the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T113747GMT1100-1536x1200.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1200\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 1000m above sea level it was cold and windy but clearer air as the sand wind storm which is grounding flights in Sydney is on its way out.<\/p>\n<p>They have a fabulous collection of proteas &#8211; all blooming magnificently,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T112343GMT1100-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T115943GMT1100-1372x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1372\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T115642GMT1100-1368x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T115636GMT1100-1151x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1151\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and we found out what those amazing blue flower spikes are that we saw in Adelaide<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T113948GMT1100-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They are Blue Puya from Central &amp; South America! I saw a female satin bower bird on one &#8211; she\u2019s the one whose mate collects blue things to put in his bower.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T113909GMT1100-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am wearing pretty much every warm thing I have here!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T113931GMT1100-1154x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1154\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sun came out and we enjoyed the views<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T115853GMT1100-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T115603GMT1100-1536x1152.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we drove to Sydney over the fabulous bridge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T145127GMT1100-1536x1259.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1259\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to meet up with Catherine and David<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T201016GMT1100-1536x812.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1536\" height=\"812\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the full moon shone for us over the beautiful opera house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" title=\"11\/23\/18\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BIRU-WP-20181123T204247GMT1100-1477x1536.jpg\" alt=\"11\/23\/18\" width=\"1477\" height=\"1536\" data-json=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we left the blue mountains we enjoyed the view at Govetts Leap (no crowds!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}