{"id":56,"date":"2018-10-23T01:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T01:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandtraverse.wordpress.com\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:13:25","slug":"about-our-walk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/about-our-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"About our walk through Tasmania (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are an ordinary Tasmanian couple from the North West in our late 50s who enjoy the mountains and bush.\u00a0 Over the years, we have walked several long distance pilgrimages overseas.\u00a0 The more we have travelled, the more we have come to appreciate the unique environment and ecology of the Island of Tasmania.\u00a0 We decided a year ago to walk it North to South (nice and slow) ourselves as a Celtic style pilgrimage at the end of 2018.\u00a0 This is a simple blog for family and friends who would like to follow along with our preparations, planning and then the journey itself.\u00a0 You are welcome to join us and share our traverse of the island of Tasmania.\u00a0 Feel free to comment on our blog page.\u00a0 We may not be able to post everyday due to phone and internet reception however our satellite GPS feed should be active unless we run short on phone or GPS battery power.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/islandtraverse.wordpress.com\/blog\/\">Our blog is here<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Links to other aspects of the journey:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Track us live via our GPS feed (turned off at the moment)<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We started as planned on 23 November 2018 but, as you will read if you followed the blog, things came to a sudden halt at the end of only our second day.\u00a0 Tim suffered a cardiac arrest just as we completed the day.\u00a0 He needed surgery and some recovery time.\u00a0 We are now completing the walk in quite a different way &#8211; section by section as we are able to schedule it.\u00a0 We will continue to blog as we go but the pilgrimage is a little different as is not our original plan of an uninterrupted north-south walk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42\" src=\"http:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181006_130510.jpg\" alt=\"20181006_130510\" width=\"2542\" height=\"1513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181006_130510.jpg 2542w, https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181006_130510-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181006_130510-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181006_130510-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181006_130510-1568x933.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are an ordinary Tasmanian couple from the North West in our late 50s who enjoy the mountains and bush.\u00a0 Over the years, we have walked several long distance pilgrimages overseas.\u00a0 The more we have travelled, the more we have come to appreciate the unique environment and ecology of the Island of Tasmania.\u00a0 We decided &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/about-our-walk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About our walk through Tasmania (Updated)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.johnmark.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}