lost anf found

So I found a post I'd saved from a while back and while it's not in order, thought you'd still like to read it..

And I forgot to tell you about our bush mechanics 101 episodes!! On the way out of cape flattery, swifty's trailer springs decided to go separate ways so he got stuck going up this big, soft sand hill..which we had only just got up, with a lot of coaxing and reassurance to the old girl. We got the hi-lift jack out and lifted the trailer so swifty could get under and bash around. We gave it a go up and the hill and got up..yippee. So we were on our way out and were crossing the last water crossing, when we were stopped by a fallen tree across the road! Az got the chainsaw out and got us through in no time..which was great timing as there were a heap of motorbike riders coming through. I though az was going to jump on the back of one and go with them, he was that jealous!!


We spent the night at Hann River Roadhouse, which was a pretty basic, but pleasant stop. The roads are absolutely amazing...so far. We had prepared ourselves for some terrible roads, but we've been sitting on 100km/hr for most of it!! We left hann river and came across Musgrave roadhouse, which was so much better!! If we had only known how good the roads were we could have stopped there. The toilet seats were even cool - those sea creature embedded clear plastic seats..pretty fancy! The burgers were delicious too! And john, the owner, is hilarious!

Az wanted to check out port stewart, as we'd heard there were phenominal catches of barra, the roads in were great too so didn't take too long. When we got there the camping was pretty dismal but the spot looked guaranteed to give us our first croc sighting...but we weren't there long as swifty had to do a little shifting of weight from the trailer and didn't want to stay there. So we headed on to coen. We met some country boys who gave us a hand putting the tinny on the roof so stayed at their pub to repay the favour..great camp spot though and only $5 a person!! Before we could get to coen we had to perform bush mechanics 102, swifty had been admiring the scenery a bit too closely and had taken a short cut across the water crossing which was pretty soft and sandy. We snatch strapped him out, bending our tow bar in the process (oops), was pretty impressive though. Got it on video ..yay for technology!

Not sure where we're headed today...will keep you posted xx