{"id":4709,"date":"2011-12-18T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2011-12-19T05:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T04:21:04","slug":"kayaking-queen-charlotte-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2011\/12\/kayaking-queen-charlotte-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking Queen Charlotte Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conditions weren&#8217;t fantastic but we decided to do a day&#8217;s seakayaking in Queen Charlotte Sound. We launched from Anakiwa and kayaked up the Grove Arm to Lochmara Bay where we abandoned ship and had hot chocolates at the cafe there. We headed back the same way with a more enjoyable tale wind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mumkayaking2kayakingqueencharlottesound_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mumkayaking2kayakingqueencharlottesound_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Mum kayaking 2 (Kayaking Queen Charlotte Sound) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Kayaking in the Grove Arm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/themapkayakingqueencharlottesound_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/themapkayakingqueencharlottesound_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"The map (Kayaking Queen Charlotte Sound) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: The map on top of the kayak.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4709-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: Setting off from Lochmara Bay after hot chocolates.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4709-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: Using the GoPro for what it was made for.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4709-3\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Setting-off-from-the-cafe-Seakayaking-QC-sound_720p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: Kayaking with a tale wind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conditions weren&#8217;t fantastic but we decided to do a day&#8217;s seakayaking in Queen Charlotte Sound. We launched from Anakiwa and kayaked up the Grove Arm to Lochmara Bay where we abandoned ship and had hot chocolates at the cafe there. We headed back the same way with a more enjoyable tale wind. Above: Kayaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayaking","category-new-zealand","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}