{"id":1685,"date":"2018-08-19T00:31:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T00:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/Travel\/?p=591"},"modified":"2018-08-19T00:31:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T00:31:54","slug":"tuwanek-bc-the-sunshine-coast-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Tuwanek BC &#8211; The Sunshine Coast &#8211; Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 17, 2018 &#8211; Surf and Turf<\/p>\n<p>Donna, our host, served us breakfast on the balcony at 9-ish, a delicious egg-crepe-fruit thingy that I am hoping Chrystal can teach me how to make. (Who am I kidding &#8230; that I&#8217;m hoping she can teach Jeff how to make!)<\/p>\n<p>We kicked off the day by going to Hidden Grove Heritage Forest to do some hiking. We had a map that showed tons of trails that looked like we could easily spend 3 or 4 hearty hours walking through.\u00a0 As it turned out, we were a little off on the scale and what looked like a 30 min hike was more like, say, 30 feet. So we ended up covering a LOT of the trails in about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_585\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180817_115106.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180817_115106.jpg?resize=300%2C146&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hidden Grove is hidden by moss<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That left us tons of time to explore the bay on stand-up paddle boards. This was a huge risk for me, as I&#8217;m not what you&#8217;d call &#8220;coordinated&#8221;. As an example, a couple of weeks ago I was riding my biking up a hill, at the top of which was a traffic light requiring me to sidle in alongside the curb and gracefully set my foot down to await the green. What I did was lose my footing and gracefully tip right over, smashing my leg hard into the sidewalk. In front of a bunch of cars and a motorbike. (&#8220;Are you ok?&#8221; &#8220;Nothing hurt here except my pride.&#8221;) Not surprisingly Jeff and I both fully expected me to topple off the paddle board as well, but not only did I successfully circumnavigate the tiny bay, I managed to stop onto and off of a floating dock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_600\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_20180818_162254.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_20180818_162254.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m still standing!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dinner was at the Blue Heron, a nice little spot down near Sechelt. Thankfully we had a table for 2 on the patio, as the inside of the restaurant smelled a lot like mouldy carpet. We both had the pistachio Halibut, which was tasty. Jeff took umbrage with their claim that &#8220;the only way it could be fresher is if you caught it yourself&#8221; given that Atlantic Lobster was one of the menu selections. The best part of the restaurant location was a narrow little pier that seemed to be home to 20 or so gulls, and the worst part was that it was off limits for walking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_587\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180817_181717.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-587\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180817_181717.jpg?resize=300%2C146&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tomorrow: spa day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 17, 2018 &#8211; Surf and Turf Donna, our host, served us breakfast on the balcony at 9-ish, a delicious egg-crepe-fruit thingy that I am hoping Chrystal can teach me how to make. (Who am I kidding &#8230; that I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=1685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tuwanek-2018","category-travel_blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8xTNS-rb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}