From a cold Austrian winter to balmy Australian evenings the difference between these two worlds could not be more different despite only an ‘al’ in name.<\/p>\n
The place is Port Parham, a ramshackle collection of holiday shacks on the Gulf of Saint Vincent in South Australia and the the holiday destination of my childhood.<\/p>\n
When 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.<\/p>\n
As 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.<\/p>\n
The 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.<\/p>\n
This evening was a nostalgic moment for me seeing Port Parham the way I always remembered it.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘The Long Tow Home’, 1\/5s f\/11 ISO320 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From a cold Austrian winter to balmy Australian evenings the difference between these two worlds could not be more different despite only an ‘al’ in name. The place is Port Parham, a ramshackle collection of holiday shacks on the Gulf of Saint Vincent in South Australia and the the holiday destination of my childhood. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[754,68,1325,485,194,604,121,71,1322,1321,403,67,120,115,146,72,1324,1323],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-beach","tag-beachlaunch","tag-boats","tag-clouds","tag-coastal","tag-fishing","tag-landscape","tag-parahm","tag-portparahm","tag-reflections","tag-seascape","tag-shoreline","tag-southaustralia","tag-summer","tag-sunset","tag-towing","tag-tractors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}