{"id":213,"date":"2026-03-26T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/?p=213"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:32:38","slug":"marion-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/2026\/03\/26\/marion-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A very windy day. I spent most of the day in my tent, occasionally going out to secure guy lines and pegs being pulled out. I am a bit sheltered in the dunes, but I probably should have found a spot deeper in the scrub. The weather tomorrow looks bad as well. The next section around Cape Spencer is the most exposed and needs the best weather, which is currently not looking good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_005659361-1200x904.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camped in the dunes with some shelter from the wind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" style=\"width: 771px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-1200x1594.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260326_051059749.MP_-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitecaps to the horizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very windy day. I spent most of the day in my tent, occasionally going out to secure guy lines and pegs being pulled out. I am a bit sheltered in the dunes, but I probably should have found a spot deeper in the scrub. The weather tomorrow looks bad as well. The next section &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/2026\/03\/26\/marion-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marion Bay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}