Wednesday 27th June 2018
Well we we make a move, we sure do make a move.
3 States in 2 days. Alice Springs NT to Bon Bon SA to Broken Hill NSW. We are well and truly on our way home.
Another big day. Up at sunrise and on our way by 7.30am. It was freezing, when David was putting down the tent he almost slipped on the bonnet of the car as it was frozen. My hands were icicles by the time we got going and that was only 10 mins from the time we got up till we left the roadside stop.
By the way, during the night the road trains sounded like jumbo jets. They were so loud, we had a not too bad nights sleep considering the noise they made.
We had a huge driving day. We made it all the way to Broken Hill 782km. The scenery along the way was changeable, with many animals along the way – emus, sheep, ravens, kangaroos – dead and alive, goats, all trying to be part of our bonnet. We only had a couple of times we really had to brake, but never close enough to be a major concern.
We made it to Broken Hill in daylight and are staying at the racecourse tonight. Fantastic facilities and only $15 per vehicle per night.
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- Sunrise this morning at Bon Bon Roadside stop was 7.24am.
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- Ice on our windscreen..
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- ..the wipers struggled to cut through it…
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- ..after about 10 minutes of window wahing and wipering the water finally got through the ice so we could head out on to the road.
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- Lake Hart was quite picturesque. The photo doesn’t do it justice but didn’t have time to go take a picture closer as we are now on a mission to get home.
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- A change of driver stop with a little exercise run as well.
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- Flinders Ranges. We will hike them next time.
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- Horrocks Pass Road
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- View along the way
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- We stopped to take a photo of these windmill propellors.
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- And when we went to go. The car wouldn’t start again. Oh oh!.
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- DB had a look and when he realised that the police were escorts for these 2 windmill propellors and they were ready to go, he rattled the key until the car started so we didn’t get caught behind them. Lucky for us it started. Wish us luck for tomorrow.
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- Almost home. Should be home late Friday, all going well.