{"id":11,"date":"2008-01-09T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/blueberry-boat\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T23:56:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:56:58","slug":"blueberry-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/blueberry-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made it until 7:30pm without taking a single photograph.  Of course, after that I went hog wild.<\/p>\n<p>It was my first day without Louvelle and I started it off in New Town, which is neither a town, nor new, but kinda funky none the less.  Somewhat Queen Street like, although more the Queen Street of yesteryear than now.   I got there for ten, figuring that for the time when most stores would open.   I was correct, but sadly someone had failed to tell most of the shopkeepers.  A lot of the stores were closed, despite what the sign on the door said.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed a chai latte and read the paper, figuring more stuff would be open when I was done.  Once again, I was correct.  I visited a few of the shops, and then  caught the train to Town Hall station, downtown.<\/p>\n<p>My first destination was the travel centre where the girl I met on the plane worked at.  Sadly when I got there I was informed she&#8217;d been moved up to Byron Bay ahead of schedule (although perhaps good for her).  I took the time to look through the brochures to get a feel for where I should head next and jotted down some tour websites.  I&#8217;m guessing I&#8217;ll probably be here for a couple more days.<\/p>\n<p>I hit Kent St. after the travel centre and bought a pair of shorts and a rain cover for my backpack.  Probably not much rain in the outback, but they&#8217;ve had some flooding up north.<\/p>\n<p>Headed back to the house in the afternoon and checked out the tour websites.  Louvelle showed up a little earlier than expected from work, but I&#8217;d already eaten and wanted to head down to Circular Quay.  My camera finally got its workout after that, with a bunch more shots of the opera house at sunset and at night.  There was a big cruise ship in the harbour, so I was a tad limited on where I could take a picture from, but it ended up leaving eventually.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2186\/2180624178_10d0163fb6.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_0958\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Met Louvelle afterwards at the Koolabar, where she went after dance to do some more (salsa) dancing.<br \/>\nFrom there we stopped by Doc&#8217;s work to get some info on the Blue Mountains (he&#8217;s a concierge), but found out he was already home.  Talked to him when we got back and he&#8217;s going to see what sort of deal he can get me.  Also, he got a Skype phone, which seems like a great idea to me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2053\/2180626238_bf365605b3.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG_0990\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made it until 7:30pm without taking a single photograph. Of course, after that I went hog wild. It was my first day without Louvelle and I started it off in New Town, which is neither a town, nor new, but kinda funky none the less. Somewhat Queen Street like, although more the Queen Street &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/blueberry-boat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blueberry Boat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}