{"id":23,"date":"2006-10-03T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.hinchy.org\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/03\/tunnel-creek\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:09:36","slug":"tunnel-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/tunnel-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/td>\nWe visited Tunnel Creek on our way back from our Mt Barnett adventure. It was an amazing experience, and quite surreal just thinking about the force and volume of water that must have passed through just to wear away such a large hole through the rockface.I had always assumed it was a fairly small tunnel, but was very surprised to find it stretch for a good half-kilometre or so.<\/p>\n

It’s every bit as interesting and amazing as some of our other caving systems – rather like the entrance road to the Jenolan Caves<\/a> in New South Wales.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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We visited Tunnel Creek on our way back from our Mt Barnett adventure. It was an amazing experience, and quite surreal just thinking about the force and volume of water that must have passed through just to wear away such a large hole through the rockface.I had always assumed it was a fairly small tunnel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,17],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-gibb-river-road","tag-tunnel-creek","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":378,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/la-grange-fitzroy-and-surrounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":0},"title":"La Grange, Fitzroy and Surrounds","author":"terry","date":"July 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Bidyadanga (La Grange) proved to be an absolute delight. 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