{"id":238,"date":"2007-09-24T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=236"},"modified":"2011-07-15T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T11:15:31","slug":"weekend-in-looma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/weekend-in-looma\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend in Looma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma and I travelled to Looma with a few other teachers (Troy, Sally, Caromy and Marcus) for a weekend of sun, fishing and relaxation. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, the only drama being a(nother) flat tyre on Marcus&#8217;s beast (6 this year!) on the way in. Troy joined us from his business in Looma that evening and we enjoyed another great camp meal cooked by Emma.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/dscn2150.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next day Troy and I went fishing (getting only slightly bogged in the process) while the rest of the crew set up another camp in a great little spot. Troy landed two small barra and lost one, and I lost one &#8211; not bad in an hour&#8217;s fishing!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/dscn2142.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To see all the photos, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.hinchy.org\">photos.hinchy.org<\/a> page, and there are also additional ones at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=14940&amp;id=692640795\">Sally&#8217;s FaceBook<\/a> page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma and I travelled to Looma with a few other teachers (Troy, Sally, Caromy and Marcus) for a weekend of sun, fishing and relaxation. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, the only drama being a(nother) flat tyre on Marcus&#8217;s beast (6 this year!) on the way in. Troy joined us from his business in Looma that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[7],"tags":[15,33],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-fishing","tag-looma","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":115,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/easter-at-looma\/","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":0},"title":"Easter at Looma","author":"trevor","date":"April 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In what has become an almost annual event (two Easters in a row, anyway) I made the trek to Looma for a couple of days of fishing - this time with Emma in tow! 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