{"id":79,"date":"2014-03-01T00:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-03-01T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T00:56:33","slug":"australian-outback-from-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Australian Outback (from a plane)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 6-hour flight from Sydney to Bali took us directly over the Australian outback which I was quite curious about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking off in Sydney &#8211; East Coast of Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I took this picture just seconds before we disappeared into the clouds:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80\" alt=\"Australian East Coast close to Sydney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0018-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0018-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0018.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian East Coast close to Sydney<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Different faces of the Outback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In some places it looked like a wind-swept desert:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81\" alt=\"Outback desert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0019-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0019-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0019.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outback desert<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_83\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83\" alt=\"Australian Outback from a plane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0024-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0024-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0024.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian Outback<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While in other places (close to Ayer&#8217;s Rock or Uluru) it looked almost like Mars:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84\" alt=\"Mars or Australia?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0033-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0033-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0033-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0033.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mars or Australia?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then in the middle of the nowhere we flew over a <em>huge<\/em> lake:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85\" alt=\"Lake between Western and Northern Territories in Australia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0037-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0037-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0037-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0037.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake between Western and Northern Territories in Australia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, this is not the Caribbean, but the Australian desert!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86\" alt=\"The shoreline of that huge lake in the desert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0035-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0035-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0035-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0035.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shoreline of that huge lake in the desert<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Australian West Coast from the air<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And finally, here we are passing over the Australian West Coast on the way to Bali:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87\" alt=\"To be exact, it's the Northwest Coast close to Derby, Australia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0046-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0046-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0046-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HNI_0046.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northwest Coast of Australia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 6-hour flight from Sydney to Bali took us directly over the Australian outback which I was quite curious about. Taking off in Sydney &#8211; East Coast of Australia I took this picture just seconds before we disappeared into the clouds: Different faces of the Outback In some places it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/?p=79\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paul-eric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}