{"id":370,"date":"2013-08-02T03:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T03:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-09-17T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T05:18:54","slug":"bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/bushfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something to get used to here is the bush fires. During the dry season, you can look in any direction on the horizon and see smoke. Fires are lit everywhere, every day. For city kids like us, it’s a big deal to see a bushfire. But around here in remote Northern Territory it is just a part of life.<\/p>\n

Below are some photos I’ve taken of bushfires in and around King Ash Bay Fishing Club over the last couple of months.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>
Big fire behind the golf course at King Ash Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fire<\/a>
Fire on the other side of the McArthur River from the boat ramp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Controlled<\/a>
Controlled burnoff at the East End (aka “Long grass”) of King Ash Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Not<\/a>
Not sure if you can see well enough in this photo, but there are hundereds of Eagles and Kites riding in the smoke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A fire on one of the islands down the Carrington Channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something to get used to here is the bush fires. During the dry season, you can look in any direction on the horizon and see smoke. Fires are lit everywhere, every day. For city kids like us, it’s a big deal to see a bushfire. But around here in remote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.naivenomads.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}