{"id":5341,"date":"2012-10-18T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awanderfullife.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T08:12:23","slug":"an-unexpected-road-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Road Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are time travelling back to Australia for this post and I am sharing a road sign that we stopped to photograph on the island of Tasmania off the south coast of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful and mainly rural place with gorgeous undulating scenery. And it is also the home to rather a lot of kangaroos and wallabies, all of which are more active between the hours of dusk and dawn. Just as it was when we lived in Country Victoria, one has to be very alert when you drive at night lest you end up with a severely damaged front-end of your car from colliding with these very muscular and dense-bodied creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy this drastic change of pace from the photos of France!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5342\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5342\" data-attachment-id=\"5342\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/?attachment_id=5342\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?fit=750%2C1120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,1120\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Deborah Harmes&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Wildlife warning road sign alongside the highway in Tasmania, Australia. Drivers are urged to be cautious since kangaroos and wallabies are most active in the hours between dusk and dawn.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1251028664&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9Deborah Harmes&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WildlifeWarningTasmania\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Wildlife warning road sign alongside the highway in Tasmania, Australia. Drivers are urged to be cautious since kangaroos and wallabies are most active in the hours between dusk and dawn.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A serious warning about what you could unexpectedly encounter on the roads as you drive at night in Tasmania, Australia.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?fit=625%2C934&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5342\" title=\"WildlifeWarningTasmania\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?resize=625%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/awanderfullife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WildlifeWarningTasmania.jpg?resize=685%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A serious warning about what you could unexpectedly encounter on the roads as you drive at night in Tasmania, Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>COPYRIGHT<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a9Deborah Harmes and \u00a9A Wanderful Life<br \/>\nPlease respect the words and images on this page.<br \/>\nAll rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are time travelling back to Australia for this post and I am sharing a road sign that we stopped to photograph on the island of Tasmania off the south coast of Australia. It&#8217;s a beautiful and mainly rural place with gorgeous undulating scenery. And it is also the home to rather a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,746,209],"tags":[1621,1052,545,1048,1049,732,1047,11,1051,1050,735],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-transportation-2","category-travel-2","tag-australia","tag-caution","tag-driving","tag-kangaroo","tag-kangaroos","tag-road-signs","tag-tasmania","tag-travel","tag-wallabies","tag-wallaby","tag-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLnqP-1o9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awanderfullife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}