{"id":284,"date":"2009-01-06T16:17:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T22:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2009\/01\/06\/little-bay-to-maroubra-beach\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T22:17:41","slug":"little-bay-to-maroubra-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2009\/01\/06\/little-bay-to-maroubra-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Bay to Maroubra Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I walked from Little Bay to Maroubra Beach, along Sydney&#8217;s south coast. I didn&#8217;t bring a camera or phone with me, so no pictures, but I did see some amazing sights, and I was able to travel through some areas I&#8217;d never been through before when I lived here.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, I counted 5 rusting engine blocks that had been dumped into the sea and were resting on rocks below the cliffs, including one very old-looking straight 6. Hopping the rocks south of Malabar, I came across a collection of petrafied shells being revealed from their sandstone encasement.<\/p>\n<p>In my &#8220;I really don&#8217;t have a deathwish&#8221; part of this trip, I actually (and accidentally) walked behind the target area of a live target range just south of Maroubra. I was a little lost in the scrub when I heard some pops and emerged to see the red flags at the corners of the rifle range. I ducked back in the scrub and found another way north.<\/p>\n<p>Maroubra Beach, one of my favorites in Sydney, was pretty full when I strolled onto the sand, and the surfers were out in force, with some decent summer waves and a gentle off-shore breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I walked from Little Bay to Maroubra Beach, along Sydney&#8217;s south coast. I didn&#8217;t bring a camera or phone with me, so no pictures, but I did see some amazing sights, and I was able to travel through some areas I&#8217;d never been through before when I lived here. Along the way, I counted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-little-bay-maroubra-australia-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}