{"id":4302,"date":"2009-01-21T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2009-01-21T08:10:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:10:45","slug":"parko-fanning-and-occhilupo-paddle-for-kirra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"Parko, Fanning, And Occhilupo Paddle For Kirra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a government sand pumping operation gone wrong the &#8220;once epic&#8221; waves at Australia&#8217;s Kirra have &#8220;dwindled and a &#8220;nearby marine reef has been destroyed.&#8221; That&#8217;s why <strong>Mick Fanning<\/strong>, <strong>Stephanie Gilmore<\/strong>, <strong>Joel Parkinson<\/strong>, and <strong>Mark Occhilupo<\/strong> will be joining hundreds of other activists on Australia Day in a paddle out to protest the destruction, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,24943293-5005961,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">HearldSun<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More recently, the beach itself has been dubbed the &#8220;Great Southern Desert&#8221;. Sand build-up means visitors have to walk 400 metres across hot sand to get to the water, a prospect that has cut tourism and weakened local business, event organisers say. . . . Coastal Alliance&#8217;s Phil Arnott said the cost to the local community was in the millions each year. . . . &#8220;Kirra, may it rest in peace, was once one of the most epic waves on the planet,&#8221; he said. . .  &#8220;Now the beach is getting wider, there&#8217;s no surf, it&#8217;s just a barren, desolate island. Kirra is dead and we need to get it back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,24943293-5005961,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a government sand pumping operation gone wrong the &#8220;once epic&#8221; waves at Australia&#8217;s Kirra have &#8220;dwindled and a &#8220;nearby marine reef has been destroyed.&#8221; That&#8217;s why Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore, Joel Parkinson, and Mark Occhilupo will be joining hundreds of other activists on Australia Day in a paddle out to protest the destruction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}