{"id":356,"date":"2009-12-27T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:33:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:33:55","slug":"white-sands-of-colva-and-palolem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"White Sands of Colva and Palolem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Christmas celebrations, we planned a trip to the beauty of Colva and Palolem beaches. Unfortunately the sun wasn&#8217;t shining as strongly as before, and both beaches were very crowded. After waiting around in the evening until sunset, it simply didn&#8217;t come! Driving the 4&#215;4 home after dark was certainly a new experience too &#8211; driving for almost two hours from the furthest reaches of Goa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2175.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2175-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2186.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2186-s.jpg\" title=\"Colva Parasailing\" alt=\"Colva Parasailing\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nColva Parasailing<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the day, was seeing Angus&#8217; nephew, Matthew, experience the sea and sand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2213.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2213-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRaju (friend of family from Marcela, Goa) &amp; Matthew<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2314.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2314-s.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2330.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2330-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2336.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2336-s.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2388.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2388-s.jpg\" title=\"Palolem Sunset Goa\" alt=\"Palolem Sunset Goa\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSun disappearing amongst the clouds<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2391_edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/IND_2391_edit-s.jpg\" title=\"Beach shacks Palolem\" alt=\"Beach shacks Palolem\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeach shacks Palolem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=warrenwilliams\" class=\"addthis_button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" style=\"border: 0px none\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Christmas celebrations, we planned a trip to the beauty of Colva and Palolem beaches. Unfortunately the sun wasn&#8217;t shining as strongly as before, and both beaches were very crowded. After waiting around in the evening until sunset, it simply didn&#8217;t come! Driving the 4&#215;4 home after dark was certainly a new experience too &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","category-people","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}