{"id":1132,"date":"2018-12-14T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T02:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2018-12-14T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:46:02","slug":"mt-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/mt-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 15 Dec 2018<\/p>\n<p>A lovely short day in the saddle, only 25 kms! Left Kabra at 6:00 and arrived in MtM at 8:30.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1134 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181214_1924412274335715048331200.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181214_1924412274335715048331200.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181214_1924412274335715048331200-150x73.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181214_1924412274335715048331200-600x292.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181214_1924412274335715048331200-768x374.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181214_1924412274335715048331200-528x257.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Giant Tree &#x1f438; at Kabra Hotel<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1135 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0624452691996593191866644.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0624452691996593191866644.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0624452691996593191866644-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0624452691996593191866644-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0624452691996593191866644-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0624452691996593191866644-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>flowering cactus, there were some patches further away from the road that were at least a meter in diameter<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1136 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0749266551615726808793613.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0749266551615726808793613.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0749266551615726808793613-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0749266551615726808793613-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0749266551615726808793613-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0749266551615726808793613-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last bit was a steep climb. When I got to MtM my shirt, short and gloves were soaked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1137\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0840156366969318150602116.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0840156366969318150602116.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0840156366969318150602116-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0840156366969318150602116-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0840156366969318150602116-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_0840156366969318150602116-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Started out with a visit to the railway museum. Mt Morgan had a unique rack and pinion locomotive and track to haul ore (or water) up that same 18% slope!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_1119078621168557998110458.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_1119078621168557998110458.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_1119078621168557998110458-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_1119078621168557998110458-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_1119078621168557998110458-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-content\/uploads\/20181215_1119078621168557998110458-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then settled in at the Silver Wattle Caravan Park with a beautiful camp kitchen and a super spacious and clean ablutions block. I&#8217;ll likely stay an extra day, while keeping an eye at the weather. Cyclone Owen doesn&#8217;t appear to be as nasty as predicted but there may still be some serious rain coming and I&#8217;d rather wait that out in MtM than in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I forgot to mention there were some beautiful windfall mangoes halfway. I had two, whadda treat! And at the Silver Wattle caravan park they gave me 4 eggs upon check-in. Guess what I&#8217;ll be having for brekkie tomorrow! I don&#8217;t even have to use my own pot or pan since the camp kitchen is fully supplied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 15 Dec 2018 A lovely short day in the saddle, only 25 kms! Left Kabra at 6:00 and arrived in MtM at 8:30. Giant Tree &#x1f438; at Kabra Hotel flowering cactus, there were some patches further away from the road that were at least a meter in diameter The last bit was a steep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}