{"id":917,"date":"2016-09-27T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/?p=917"},"modified":"2016-09-27T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:19:26","slug":"psychedelic-west-coast-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/psychedelic-west-coast-flowers","title":{"rendered":"Psychedelic West Coast Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Dorje and I went for a trip to the West Coast National Park. Seeing as my Telkom line was down, Dorje was a little more agreeable than usual.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the first time taking my new car on anything like the open road (and off-road), and it was great not to use my hand to stop the window sliding down on a bumpy gravel road.<\/p>\n<p>Some Psychedelic Trance from Tip records was the soundtrack of the day, and our attempts to emulate the music make me grateful not everything ends up on Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped and took a walk through the dunes to a deserted beach. Dorje discovered what looked like an ancient tortoise shell. It felt a bit like polystyrene, but was almost certainly a tortoise shell that had been lying in the dunes for a very long time. Unfortunately the shell got left on the dunes after Dorje put it down to put his shoes back on. It was hot, and we weren&#8217;t summer-ready, so there was no going back. We were gone for a couple of hours, and in spite of the park&#8217;s roads being packed, it still being flower season, we didn&#8217;t see a single person on the path, or on the endless beach. It makes me happy places like this still exist:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dorje_west_coast_beach_resized.jpg\" width=\"620\" alt=\"West_Coast_beach\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably a little late in the flower season for the best blooms, but we did find this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dorje_flowers_resized.jpg\" width=\"620\" alt=\"Dorje_flowers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The park helpfully provided a list of fauna to look out for. The West Coast park is not exactly known for its large animals, and it&#8217;s telling that the list included three types of snake, numerous birds&#8230; and the dung beetle. Everything was clearly avoiding the heat, so although we spotted lots of dung, we didn&#8217;t even spot a dung beetle. Fortunately a tortoise on the road out meant we didn&#8217;t return with an empty checklist.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for dung beetles:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dorje_rocks_resized.jpg\" width=\"620\" alt=\"searching_for_dung_beetles\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Dorje and I went for a trip to the West Coast National Park. Seeing as my Telkom line was down, Dorje was a little more agreeable than usual. It was also the first time taking my new car on anything like the open road (and off-road), and it was great not to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}