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The mighty Fitzroy claims another victim…<\/p>\n

A nice relaxing day on the Fitzroy at Red Air. Dad and I fished, Emma lay on a towel and read, and Mum did her best to chase fish upstream. In all honesty though, Mum was very excited by the prospect of being able to do her “500 metre” daily swim without actually travelling one metre. Worth noting that we didn’t actually catch any fish in that spot… not sure why!<\/p>\n

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The mighty Fitzroy claims another victim… A nice relaxing day on the Fitzroy at Red Air. Dad and I fished, Emma lay on a towel and read, and Mum did her best to chase fish upstream. In all honesty though, Mum was very excited by the prospect of being able to do her “500 metre” […]<\/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_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":[4,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-the-kids","tag-fitzroy-crossing","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/and-then-it-rained\/","url_meta":{"origin":135,"position":0},"title":"And then it rained","author":"trevor","date":"April 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Better late than never! 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