{"id":74,"date":"2007-04-18T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-04-18T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T12:59:15","slug":"6-days-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"6 Days on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommorrow begins Day 1 of 6 On the Road for the next week.\u00c2\u00a0 I will be home one full day in the next week (monday).\u00c2\u00a0 Tommorrow after spending a whole 3 hours at work (o0o0o0o0o0o0o scary) I am flying off to the Whitsundays for work.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of me is thinking that I should not take the big camera, however after looking over my old Hayman photos and realising how good some of them were (not the best but damn good, <a href=\"http:\/\/members.optusnet.com.au\/kaell116\/lagoonwing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">example<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 With this I think I can justify getting up a touch early on Sunday morning on Hayman island, going for a stroll around the Island and taking a few photos.\u00c2\u00a0 The only thing is camera gear is big and hefty which means my big Crumpler back pack (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumpler.com.au\/Cart\/Resources\/CartResources\/207_res\/b207_o10311_ai640.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">picture<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 I love the backpack its just large and sometimes a bit of a hassle.\u00c2\u00a0 But I deal with it, the sacrifices you have to make for your hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway here are some basic outline plans over the next few days.\u00c2\u00a0 I will be keeping the blog going although will probably be writing it down as I go so that I can also keep track of the hotel rooms as I go (easier than taking a brochure around&#8230; sorry work people).<\/p>\n<p>Day 1: Thursday &#8211; 11am finish work &gt; Fly to Whitsunday Coast (Proserpine) with Jetstar(*sigh*) and then a couple of activities and site inspections and Overnight Coral Sea Resort.<br \/>\nDay 2: Friday &#8211; Easy Day &#8211; Reef with Fantasea and Overnight Long Island.<br \/>\nDay 3: Saturday &#8211; Long Island to Hamilton Island &gt; Half a Day on Hamilton &gt; Hamilton to Hayman &gt; Overnight Hayman<br \/>\nDay 4: Sunday &#8211; Hayman to Hamilton Island &gt; Hamilton Island to Brisbane with Jetstar (*sigh*)<br \/>\nDay 5: Tuesday &#8211; Early morning Flight to Sydney on Qantas International Sector (YAY!) &gt; Spotting &gt; Chaser Taping &gt; Overnight Menzies Hotel Sydney<br \/>\nDay 6: Wednesday (Anzac Day) &#8211; Dawn Service &gt; Wreath Laying &gt; Anzac Day March (photos probably) &gt; Lunch with 2nd\/2nd MG Bttln &gt; Fly Home with Qantas.<\/p>\n<p>Busy times coming up.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of flying but I love flying anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully trip to reef goes ok.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t really wanna have to start panicing on the way out to the reef so I guess this will be a time to try and help with the fear, dunno if I&#8217;m going snorkelling yet either.\u00c2\u00a0 Shall see.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway on an early shift tommorrow so should go to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can somehow get access to Internet somewhere I will update, otherwise I will update Sunday night when i get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommorrow begins Day 1 of 6 On the Road for the next week.\u00c2\u00a0 I will be home one full day in the next week (monday).\u00c2\u00a0 Tommorrow after spending a whole 3 hours at work (o0o0o0o0o0o0o scary) I am flying off to the Whitsundays for work.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of me is thinking that I should not take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-1c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}