{"id":14858,"date":"2024-05-06T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=14858"},"modified":"2024-05-06T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:24:53","slug":"low-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/05\/06\/low-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re staying at an alpaca farm tonight, because when someone asks you if you want to wake up to alpacas, you say yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was a long drive south, so we took our time before getting on the road, and made a few short rest stops on the way down.  The roads here are given route names that start with &#8220;A&#8221;, &#8220;B&#8221; or &#8220;C&#8221;.  &#8220;A&#8221; routes seem to always be paved, although they may be little more than narrow country roads.  &#8220;C&#8221; routes seem to be a roll of the dice &#8211; some are paved, some are dirt, and at least one has been a four-wheel drive only route, so we&#8217;ve learned to double check whatever directions Google Maps sends us before setting out.  Until yesterday we assumed that &#8220;B&#8221; routes were always paved, too, but after twenty miles of dirt road in a Toyota Camry with about two millimeters of ground clearance we now know that&#8217;s not the case.  We&#8217;re pretty confident that we will have the road situation all figured out just in time to catch our flight out from Hobart in two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our eventual destination for today was Mount Field National Park, the second oldest national park in Tasmania and home to some famous waterfalls. The waterfalls were running low due to a lack of recent rain, but the rainforest was still lush and we spent a while photographing mushrooms along the trail. Tomorrow we&#8217;ll probably get a bit more practice at fungal photography before heading back to Hobart for our last day in Tasmania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2024-05-A\/2078-mt-fields-np-mushroom.jpg\" alt=\"Mushrooms, Mt. Field National Park\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Tiny mushrooms, Mt. Field National Park.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re staying at an alpaca farm tonight, because when someone asks you if you want to wake up to alpacas, you say yes. Today was a long drive south, so we took our time before getting on the road, and made a few short rest stops on the way down. The roads here are given &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/05\/06\/low-clearance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Low Clearance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,78,30],"class_list":["post-14858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2024-walkabout","tag-australia","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14858"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}