Day25

Day 25 Saturday12th May

Woke up to another great day in paradise! Overnight low of 21deg.
Left C/Park by 0750. Had to stop at the shops as we used up the last of our spuds last night. Well what really happened was that Brenda was boiling some spuds, she came outside the van for happy hour, and forgot about the spuds. So consequently we burnt the crap out of them. So she was banned from wine for 10 minutes, or until my dinner was cooked!!!
Our first stop was at the Pardo roadhouse, Brenda freaked out here as there were lots of our “brothers” here. As usual, they had a car that wouldn’t start, so they were pushing it around the servo trying to bump start it. One of the funniest things I have ever seen, lots of noise and instructions from the wings!!!
We arrived at our new “garden’ at 1130. The place had not changed, just as good as last time., plenty of green grass sites. Caught up with Rick and Tracey haven’t seen them for a couple of days!
We then went surf fishing for Salmon. Did alright, caught 5. Tracey caught a shovel Nose shark, but we let that go. Ricks boy Wes, scaled and cleaned the fish. So we decided to have them for Dinner tomorrow night. Our first Night in Broome.
As per usual happy hour was a great success, we had to stop so we could have dinner.
For those interested Here are the fuel prices for this section of the journey. Pt. Hedland $1.47 ULP. $0.86 LPG. The Pardo Roadhouse LPG was 99cents a litre and that was only180 Klm’s up the road.
Rich telephoned us as he wanted us to pick up a packet of Smokes. He went to the Sandfire Roadhouse, some 50 K’s up the road. But the joint had burnt down and they only had one pack left. How desperate can you be?? Turned out the fire was caused by an Electrical Fault
Ok, off to Broome tomorrow. Just about 380 Klm’s away. We are booked in there for a 5 days but we are hoping to make that 7 days.
Ricks next door neighbour in Rosebud Baz, is flying up so this could be a fun week!!!
It’s time to open the Grandfather Port !!!
We are looking at this as about half way for us!!