{"id":90,"date":"2007-03-26T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-07-15T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:23:05","slug":"a-flight-into-ngalapita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/a-flight-into-ngalapita\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flight into Ngalapita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/26-03-07_0744.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a week teaching in Ngalapita, and no rain on Thursday and Friday, I felt confident enough in the roads to attempt a drive back to Fitzroy Crossing for the weekend to visit Emma. The road out was fine, with only a little bit of Low Range 4WDing necessary. Christmas Creek was the only hairy bit &#8211; it was flowing at 98cm, and crossing it in the school troopie saw the water coming up and over the bonnet to about two inches above the base of the windscreen.<\/p>\n<p>But, safely home, I got to spend the weekend with my wife! An extra perk was being able to watch the Australia-South Africa game on TV as well on the Saturday night. Unfortunately, just as I left Ngalapita, torrential rain hit the area, and this resulted in me being unable to drive back. I left the car in Fitzroy Crossing, and was forced to catch the plane back in again &#8211; hopefully we can get the car back in next weekend. I took plenty of photos from my mobile phone of the flood plains &#8211; as you can see, the Fitzroy River is not in flood at the moment, but is certainly very full!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/26-03-07_0814.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Fitzroy River\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/26-03-07_0811.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Fitzroy River\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week teaching in Ngalapita, and no rain on Thursday and Friday, I felt confident enough in the roads to attempt a drive back to Fitzroy Crossing for the weekend to visit Emma. The road out was fine, with only a little bit of Low Range 4WDing necessary. Christmas Creek was the only hairy [&hellip;]<\/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":[7],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-ngalapita","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-1s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}