{"id":181,"date":"2002-11-12T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-12T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=181"},"modified":"2002-11-12T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-12T20:20:00","slug":"undara-lava-tubes-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/undara-lava-tubes-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Undara Lava Tubes, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/111202a.jpg',1200,902)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/111202a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=925 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/111202b.jpg',750,1001)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/111202b_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=300 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><center>[<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/111202a.mov','','width=160,height=136')\">UNDARA LAVA TUBES VIDEO LINK &#8211; 27sec. &#8211; 160&#215;120 &#8211; 396k<\/a>]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I ran out of time last year to go to these lava tubes, and I almost balked at it again this year, but we made it out there. 3 hour drive out, two hour tour, three hour drive back. Plus or minus a few hours somehow. So, like 200,000 years ago a volcano erupted, then lava flowed down a creek bed, the lava cooled, the tubes emptied out, parts of it collapsed, vegetation grew back, people inhabited Australia, brochures were printed up, a van picked us up, I shot this photo, and that&#8217;s the history of the lava tubes. The cicada&#8217;s were huge and so deafeningly loud they kind of made me dizzy after awhile. You could barely hear the guide talking. On the way home I asked the driver if we could stop and check out some of the termite mounds that were all over the place. We passed thousands and thousands of these things.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UNDARA LAVA TUBES VIDEO LINK &#8211; 27sec. &#8211; 160&#215;120 &#8211; 396k] I ran out of time last year to go to these lava tubes, and I almost balked at it again this year, but we made it out there. 3 hour drive out, two hour tour, three hour drive back. Plus or minus a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":""},"categories":[37,27,9,16,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-friends","category-life","category-photography","category-travel","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}