{"id":854,"date":"2003-05-19T19:09:17","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2020-08-20T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T19:09:56","slug":"nz-trip-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/05\/19\/nz-trip-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Trip &#8211; Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drove up the coast to Kapiti this morning to visit my aunts, Wendy and Helen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kapiti Island is a protected nature reserve just off the coast of the &#8220;mainland&#8221; North Island, about 45 minutes drive North of Wellington. The township there is called &#8211; not surprisingly &#8211; Kapiti, and Wendy and Helen moved out there about two years ago, and the work they&#8217;ve put into their property has resulted in a wonderful, restful place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After admiring the house and garden, we went out for a walk with a picnic lunch. Walking around their local pond, I saw spoonbills, paradise ducks, lots of things, I forget their names now but lots of bird life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the beach where we stopped for a rest and sandwiches, we saw &#8220;kite surfers&#8221;, basically windsurfers except they use a huge kite thingy instead of a sail. We saw them making these tremendous leaps off the waves. They must have some way to alter the lift provided by the canopy, because otherwise I don&#8217;t see why they didn&#8217;t take flight and blow away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/kapiti_beach.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After more walking, including stops for coffee and mushrooms, it was time for me to leave. I really didn&#8217;t feel like it, but Mum was expecting me back for dinner, so, I had to make my farewells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drive south was uneventful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drove up the coast to Kapiti this morning to visit my aunts, Wendy and Helen. Kapiti Island is a protected nature reserve just off the coast of the &#8220;mainland&#8221; North Island, about 45 minutes drive North of Wellington. The township there is called &#8211; not surprisingly &#8211; Kapiti, and Wendy and Helen moved out there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}