{"id":8006,"date":"2017-05-01T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2019-07-15T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:54:44","slug":"blog-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/05\/01\/blog-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of these two weeks has been my trip to Queenstown, followed by a ferry tour around a beautiful place on the west coast called Milford Sound.&nbsp; A \u2018sound\u2019 is a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land.&nbsp; First we spent a night out at the bars in Queenstown trying to find the cheapest deals among all the overpriced tourist traps.&nbsp; We celebrated all night for a friends 21<sup>st<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; The next day we woke up with a pounding headache and stumbled over to the famous Fergburger for breakfast.&nbsp; Then we left to start our drive to the campsite near the ferry launch dock where we cooked a nice pasta dinner on our camping burner.&nbsp; In the morning, we woke up and drove the short drive to the ferry, watching the beautiful sunrise along the way.&nbsp; On our tour, we saw beautiful mountains that rose high out of the water and as the sun climbed above them in the morning sky.&nbsp; There are a few breathtaking waterfalls that we stopped the boat at to observe and take pictures.&nbsp; My friends and I were sitting on the very front of the boat when the captain pointed the nose right under the waterfall allowing us to get quite wet.&nbsp; In the middle of the sound, we stopped and saw well over 100 dolphins swimming around our ferry.&nbsp; As the captain started to move forward again the dolphins start to follow us and surf our wake while we took videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of these two weeks has been my trip to Queenstown, followed by a ferry tour around a beautiful place on the west coast called Milford Sound.&nbsp; A \u2018sound\u2019 is a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land.&nbsp; First we spent a night out at the bars in Queenstown trying to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15228,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}