{"id":194,"date":"2006-01-19T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=194"},"modified":"2006-01-19T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T07:09:17","slug":"good-reasons-for-living-in-new-zealand-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/good-reasons-for-living-in-new-zealand-274\/","title":{"rendered":"Good reasons for living in New Zealand #274"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>ometimes fate conspires to present the perfect photographic opportunity, and when that happens, fate usually conspires to make me blow it. And sometimes it doesn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Orcaonmytail.jpg?resize=480%2C324\" alt=\"Orcaonmytail.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An orca on my tail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We were crossing Tasman Bay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailingcharters.co.nz\/jamarh.html\">Jamarh<\/a>, a sailing catamaran operating out of Nelson, when three orca passed in the opposite direction. Rush to camera, snap a couple of shots of tall black fins, and then suddenly a young one is steaming up into our wake, and breaches. I would have liked to have got the shot a fraction of a second earlier, but hey &#8211; this one&#8217;s good enough for me. Jamarh&#8217;s skipper, Martin, has seen plenty of orca, but never had one do that before.<\/p>\n<p>We were on the boat for an overnight trip into the Abel Tasman National Park. This is where we spent the night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jamarhpukatea.jpg?resize=480%2C319\" alt=\"Jamarhpukatea.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pukatea Bay, Abel Tasman National Park<\/p>\n<p>We swam, sunbathed, saw penguins and seals, swam some more, ate fresh scallops and fish, swam again, kayaked up a creek to a spectacular freshwater pool (no camera, sorry) and walked a small section of the Abel Tasman path. Perfection. I want to do it again, but it&#8217;s back to the farm and selling books. The <em>Nelson Mail<\/em> gave me a good write up&#8230; Thanks, Jude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes fate conspires to present the perfect photographic opportunity, and when that happens, fate usually conspires to make me blow it. And sometimes it doesn&#8217;t&#8230; An orca on my tail&#8230; We were crossing Tasman Bay on Jamarh, a sailing catamaran operating out of Nelson, when three orca passed in the opposite direction. Rush to camera, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/good-reasons-for-living-in-new-zealand-274\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good reasons for living in New Zealand #274<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,140,59],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-computers","tag-abel-tasman","tag-jamarh","tag-orca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}