{"id":346,"date":"2012-05-27T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-06-16T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:02:24","slug":"great-ocean-road-day-1-the-grampians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/great-ocean-road-day-1-the-grampians\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Ocean Road &#8211; Day 1, The Grampians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my adventures in the Australian outback, I flew from Alice Springs to Adelaide. I didn\u2019t really have time to explore Adelaide. For I stayed there one late afternoon and a night at the <a title=\"Shakespeare Backpacker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shakeys.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare Backpacker<\/a> before leaving for a three days tour that took me to <a title=\"Grampians National Park\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grampians_National_Park\" target=\"_blank\">the Grampians<\/a> and the <a title=\"Great Ocean Road\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Ocean_Road\" target=\"_blank\">Great Ocean Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual in this huge country, we had a lot of road trips on the first day. On the way we spotted some albino kangaroos, an echidna, which was burying itself when it heard us and my first of the many famous Australian road signs after 6 months in the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_347\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"size-large wp-image-347\" title=\"albino kangaroo\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5745-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"albino kangaroo\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5745-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5745-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">albino kangaroo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_348\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"size-large wp-image-348\" title=\"Echidna\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5747-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Echidna\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5747-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5747-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Echidna<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_349\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5748.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"size-large wp-image-349\" title=\"Australian roadsign\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5748-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Australian roadsign\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5748-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5748.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian roadsign<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We reached the Grampians in the early afternoon. The Grampians are big mountain ranges in the state of Victoria. We started our visit to those mountains by the McKenzie waterfall, one of the few waterfalls that flows all the year round. We then continued on to what was supposedly to be a magnificent view over the valley but unfortunately it was \u00a0totally covered by the fog.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_350\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350\" class=\"size-large wp-image-350\" title=\"The Grampians\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5750-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Grampians\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5750-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5750-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grampians<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_351\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"size-large wp-image-351\" title=\"View from the Grampians\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5751-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"View from the Grampians\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5751-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5751-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the Grampians<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_352\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"size-large wp-image-352\" title=\"McKenzie waterfalls\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5755-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"McKenzie waterfalls\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5755-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5755.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKenzie waterfalls<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_353\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"size-large wp-image-353\" title=\"foggy promontory\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5770-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"foggy promontory\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5770-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5770.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">foggy promontory<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my adventures in the Australian outback, I flew from Alice Springs to Adelaide. I didn\u2019t really have time to explore Adelaide. For I stayed there one late afternoon and a night at the Shakespeare Backpacker before leaving for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/great-ocean-road-day-1-the-grampians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,3,10],"tags":[29,184,30,28],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-south-australia","category-travel","category-victoria","tag-adventure-tour-australia","tag-australia","tag-national-park","tag-the-grampians"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}