Tuesday 25 August 2015
Today turned out to be a very challenging and eventful day. The road was corrugated, full of bulldust holes and dusty. Sam's trailer tipped over on a bad section of road. Fortunately it didn't roll his jeep and no one was hurt. The big strong blokes righted it and Sam was soon on the road again.
At 11.00am and out in the middle of nowhere we saw flashing lights up the road. We thought there must have been an accident but as we drew closer it turned out to be the local constabulary doing random breath testing. It confused the young constable when he went to test the driver only to discover it was actually the passenger as it was a left hand drive jeep. Apparently they heard that our convoy was coming through so they travelled around 200 kms to meet us. They managed to get their quota RBT done and no one was booked so everyone was happy.
We were all very pleased to reach the station around lunchtime. Some stayed at the station campground which was very ordinary and the rest of us bush camped. We had a great big campfire with a log dragged up from the creek by the Dodge. Our peace and quiet was shattered early in the evening by an electrical storm and rain. We went to bed wondering whether we would have to make a dash to the next station in the middle of the night if it rained heavily. The roads out here turn to mud very quickly after heavy rain and are then closed to all traffic. Being stuck in downtown Jervois was not on our agenda. Not all the vehicles are 4x4 wheel drive and some are towing trailers.
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