It's Tuesday and we're finally on our way south. The van has a new bill of health and we hope we'll not have too many more issues as major as this one. JB have arranged through their tyre supplier for some new tyres to be fitted. That's going to happen in Margaret River pretty soon.
We also had a minor oil leak on the car. It seems VW in Darwin replaced the sump plug gasket with the incorrect one. VW in Perth fixed that. We've also changed out the car tyres using some contacts that our brother in law had in town, thanks Peter. It's early days but they are performing well.
Rose suggested a "free camp" site on the way down at a place called Lake Wellington. It was off the beaten track a bit, but we're not due down in Hamelin Bay until Wednesday so we swung by.
What a place, and it was free. The ranger apparently had decided it was the end of the season and was not collecting fees, no honour box, no nothing. We drove in, stepped out and immediately were invited over to the fire, grabbed our only bottle of wine and some nibbles and joined in with the other Queenslanders (..yep that's right, they were every last one of them!) We're told there's a lot of trout in the lake, bike and walking trails everywhere.. we might go back for a few days... we'll see.
We also had a minor oil leak on the car. It seems VW in Darwin replaced the sump plug gasket with the incorrect one. VW in Perth fixed that. We've also changed out the car tyres using some contacts that our brother in law had in town, thanks Peter. It's early days but they are performing well.
Rose suggested a "free camp" site on the way down at a place called Lake Wellington. It was off the beaten track a bit, but we're not due down in Hamelin Bay until Wednesday so we swung by.
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