{"id":1718,"date":"2011-12-06T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2012-02-02T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:14:19","slug":"sun-gleaming-off-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/sun-gleaming-off-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"SUN GLINTING OFF SAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-gracie.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1723\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-gracie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-gracie.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Gracie watching swimmers at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-flower.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1722\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-flower\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-flower.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Wild flowers in the dunes at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-romper.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1726\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-romper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-romper.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Flowery romper and sun hat at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-rock-pool.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1724\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-rock-pool\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-rock-pool.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Searching rock pools at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-dylan.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1720\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-dylan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-dylan.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-flippers-gracie.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1721\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-flippers-gracie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-flippers-gracie.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan playing with Gracie dog at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-chasey.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1719\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-chasey\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-chasey.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Tom chasing Gracie dog with flippers at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-sunscreen.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1727\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-sunscreen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-sunscreen.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Sunscreen and wetsuits at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-rocks1.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1718]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1728\" title=\"grey-river-otways-beach-rocks\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grey-river-otways-beach-rocks1.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Sitting on rocks in a blue romper at the Grey River Beach, the Otways\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather was finally dreaming of summer and two gloriously sunny days at the beach made up for weeks of mud and dreary grey skies above tarpaulins. We took our housemates for their first Australian beach adventure and, Antarctic water aside, I was proud of my little Australia, she really can impress when she puts a little effort in. So sun and salt washed away the tiredness, which we had been storing up, a sigh of relief that the main slog of the Permablitz was over and gently pushing the knowledge that there is so many ends untied in the garden out to sea bobbing towards the horizon for at least a few days of lazy leisure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was finally dreaming of summer and two gloriously sunny days at the beach made up for weeks of mud and dreary grey skies above tarpaulins. We took our housemates for their first Australian beach adventure and, Antarctic water aside, I was proud of my little Australia, she really can impress when she puts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_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":[6],"tags":[90,160,87,75,33],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-beach","tag-flowers","tag-gracie-the-border-collie","tag-grey-river","tag-otways"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-rI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}