{"id":1473,"date":"2016-01-20T23:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1473-the-long-tow-home.html"},"modified":"2016-01-21T00:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:06:54","slug":"the-long-tow-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1473-the-long-tow-home.html","title":{"rendered":"The Long Tow Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2046 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1298-_MG_7716.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom a cold Austrian winter to balmy Australian evenings the difference between these two worlds could not be more different despite only an &#8216;al&#8217; in name.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe place is Port Parham, a ramshackle collection of holiday shacks on the Gulf of Saint Vincent in South Australia and the holiday destination of my childhood.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen the tide goes out here it goes a long, long, long way out. When the tide comes in you can have fun jogging back to the shoreline with the incoming tide lapping at your heals.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs a child I thought these beach tractors were the coolest vehicles on the planet. If you were lucky enough to get a ride on one you could see for miles and miles and even better was that they would drive out into the water when they finally got to it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe owner of this boat had waited patiently for some time before his ride came to tow him home. Not that anyone would mind waiting on a balmy summer evening with a sky like that.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis evening was a nostalgic moment for me seeing Port Parham the way I always remembered it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Long Tow Home&#8217;, 1\/5s f\/11 ISO320 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a cold Austrian winter to balmy Australian evenings the difference between these two worlds could not be more different despite only an &#8216;al&#8217; in name. The place is Port Parham, a ramshackle collection of holiday shacks on the Gulf of Saint Vincent in South Australia and the holiday destination of my childhood. When the &#8230; <a title=\"The Long Tow Home\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1473-the-long-tow-home.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Long Tow Home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}