{"id":59,"date":"2010-10-17T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-10-25T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:54:01","slug":"jells-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Jells Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Length:<\/strong> 2.9 km (Complete walk is 5.2 km, but I only walked part.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time taken<\/strong>: n\/a<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade:<\/strong> Easy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climb<\/strong>: 17 metres (as measured by RunKeeper)<\/p>\n<p>Jells Park has a surprisingly remote feel considering it is in the middle of the suburbs. The lake circuit is quite pretty (if you ignore the power lines :)) and quite popular with walkers. There were plenty of birds around the lake, and even a bird hide to watch them from.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t able to do the complete walk on the day I went, but I did walk a circuit of the lake which is the main part. I am hoping to go back sometime and walk the complete 5km route.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"jells1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overlooking the lake from the southern part of the walk<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_61\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61\" title=\"jells2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The water level was quite high, almost above the jetty.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-62\" title=\"jells3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63\" title=\"jells4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bird hide<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_64\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64\" title=\"jells5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lake<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_65\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65\" title=\"jells6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This bird was happy to walk quite close to me<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_66\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66\" title=\"jells7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jells7.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some nice flowers I spotted in the car park<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length: 2.9 km (Complete walk is 5.2 km, but I only walked part.) Time taken: n\/a Grade: Easy Climb: 17 metres (as measured by RunKeeper) Jells Park has a surprisingly remote feel considering it is in the middle of the suburbs. The lake circuit is quite pretty (if you ignore the power lines :)) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dandenong-creek-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melbournedaywalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}