Well, we're off. Ok - James and I are off anyway. The girls are flying up to meet us in Cairns on Sunday.
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I had a few hours sleep and we left Adelaide and a very fresh 5 degree at midnight. Uneventful to Port Augusta where we refuelled with the last cheap fuel and headed into the Flinders Ranges towards Quorn. A few roos between Quorn and Hawker but nothing to worry about. Arrived early am at Marree for a quick breakfast. They hadn't had any bread deliveries for a few days so toasted sandwiches were out and a pie had to suffice for brekky!
Off onto the Birdsville track and headed up to Birdsvill e. Again pretty uneventful for a couple of hours. I then noticed for some weird reason after 300 odd kays of dirt that the odd stone hit the back window. Just as I was slowing down to check it out - SMASH! The back window shattered. Luckily the tinting held it together and it's still together some 1500km later!
We taped it up and it seems fine. Continued on into Birdsville. The track was being graded and was quite cut up in a lot of places due to idiots driving on it in the wet and mud. This is quite dangerous now as it has dried and there is ruts all over it.
We didn't fill up with fuel at Birdsville for two reasons. One, they have no BP so couldn't use the fleet card and two, as expected, fuel was $2.08 per litre. We bought 60lt and intended filling up later.
We rang Windscreen O'Brien (national) from Birdsville to arrange a new glass in Townsville when we get there tomorrow.
We stopped in Bedourie and set up 'free camp' and had a really good meal at the tavern. An early night
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