{"id":120,"date":"2007-12-06T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2007\/12\/06\/im_wa_wine_tasting_with_est_wild_kangaroos\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:49:00","slug":"im_wa_wine_tasting_with_est_wild_kangaroos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/im_wa_wine_tasting_with_est_wild_kangaroos.html","title":{"rendered":"IM WA: Wine Tasting with EST, Wild Kangaroos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EST took us on a wine tasting tour the day after our race!\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/1.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/2.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Our second tour guide, Sharyn who gave us lovely facts about the flora and fauna of Australia, as well as being a triathlon coach!   Here I hold an authentic Australian meat pie.  Seems like Australians like these pies of all sorts.\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/5.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/kanga.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Yes that little speck under the tree on the left was a real live wild kangaroo.  See the closeup on the right.  These guys hide under the trees in the day time and come out to eat during the mornings and evenings.<\/p>\n<p>Wine tasting was fun.  I was getting pretty sloshed on sipping wine due to my depleted condition from racing the day before.  Takes one Ironman to make me a cheap date!\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/3.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/4.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/6.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/7.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>There&#8217;s me in ecstasy after tasting the Sandelera port, an incredibly smooth dessert wine that cost me $5 just to taste it.\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/8.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/9.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/10.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Wacky sculptures were found at each winery, as well as fancy places to spit\/dump your tasted wine.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=158 height=210 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/11.jpg\" border=0><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to one of group, Donna, who took 3rd in her age group and got a Kona slot!  She blew by me on the bike and I was in awe of her speed!\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/12.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/13.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nHere we all sit on the bus ride to Perth airport, all happy and depleted and sore.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=158 height=210 src=\"\/images\/imwa7\/14.jpg\" border=0><\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, I could not leave Australia without sampling the local fare.  In Perth, I found a microbrewery and ate kangaroo steak and lamb and crocodile sausages. Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EST took us on a wine tasting tour the day after our race! Our second tour guide, Sharyn who gave us lovely facts about the flora and fauna of Australia, as well as being a triathlon coach! Here I hold an authentic Australian meat pie. Seems like Australians like these pies of all sorts. Yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironman-wa-12-2-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}