{"id":1319,"date":"2013-08-18T19:59:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T09:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2013-08-18T19:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T09:59:01","slug":"granite-island-the-wind-and-the-beginning-of-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/granite-island-the-wind-and-the-beginning-of-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Granite Island, The Wind, and the Beginning of Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love things that are packed full of jam, pickles, and other kinds of action. So this weekend I took a trip down to Victor Harbour and Granite Island.<\/p>\n

Everyone told me it’d be cold, but for all the 10\u00b0C – 14\u00b0C, it wasn’t all that cold. I attribute this to my Rhodes and Beckett attire and the fact that Sydney has worse winters by far.<\/p>\n

It was wet, cold and windy but I didn’t mind at all – I was loving it! However the farmer’s markets weren’t faring as well – I saw a few tents tip over – so they had to shut down early. I didn’t get my chance to spend money here, which was a good and bad thing, since I probably won’t visit again… ever?<\/p>\n

It also meant the horse drawn tram wasn’t in action to Granite Island, but that was okay as I discovered it wasn’t a horse-drawn carriage. I was anticipating some good old, old fashioned horse carriages, but the picture advertising it depicted a giant bus-like thing drawn by horses, so I was disappointed without actually being disappointed. Instead I got to walk along the giant bridge-thing to the small island with big rocks and penguins that didn’t show!<\/p>\n

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THE DUCKS LIKE ROCKS
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So there were a bunch of giant rocks at the top\/one side of the island, and I really wanted to climb on the highest one but it was too slippery and I’m a chicken. So I stood on a mini-rock and had a fight and an argument with the wind – which was really, really strong. And I lost both! It stole my voice when I tried to shout at it, then it almost succeeded in toppling me multiple times. So I shouted “HELLO TO THE END OF THE WORLD” with the direction the wind was blowing, and I think it liked that. It was very exciting! So now I know why I like the sun: it’s powerful and makes fun of me, but at least it’s not a big meanie like the wind.<\/p>\n

Aaaand an obligatory food post of a cute little bar called\u00a0Proof<\/em> which I have to go back to, mainly because they have lobster rolls with kewpie (!!!), snails, blood sausage + egg toasties, jamon iberico, house pickles and other assorted goodies! So all I have to show on my first visit is this mind-blowing chocolate mousse. It was extra dark chocolate mousse, topped with liquidy custardy stuff (I forgot what they called it), served in a cocktail glass. AMAZING. Well worth the $9!<\/p>\n

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It is a very classy bar. That Eleven card is what they gave me in exchange for holding my credit card ransom as I opted to open a tab for myself \ud83d\ude00 It was exciting because I’ve never done that before!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love things that are packed full of jam, pickles, and other kinds of action. So this weekend I took a trip down to Victor Harbour and Granite Island. Everyone told me it’d be cold, but for all the 10\u00b0C – 14\u00b0C, it wasn’t all that cold. I attribute this to my Rhodes and Beckett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[37,265,606,1568,2127,2176],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-random","tag-adventure","tag-classy-bar","tag-granite-island","tag-proof","tag-wind","tag-yelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}