Tuesday 4 June 2013

Day 32 Broome to Karratha 850 KM's (big day)

Apologise to everyone reading the blog for the slow update but there are reasons which you will read below...

The day started with breakfast and after saying our good byes to the girls we headed off to Karratha... First mistake of the day I did not top up with fuel and realised to late that the next stop was 300kms I ran out of fuel 20 KM's short.... John headed off with the fuel cell to get fuel and return ... It took about 1 hr... I waited at the side of the road in the rain.... Total stuff up. We pushed onto Port Headland in the rain, 50 KM's this side and the other side of Port Hedland was a nightmare with convoys of road trains, road works and rain... We did not take on fuel ... Mistake number two of the day... The weather cleared and we where making good time until we came into a one horse town looking for fuel... The service station was locked.... Panic set in...will we have to camp !!! In the rain  and cold... A local motorist suggested we travel another 15 KM's out of town (different road) to find a service station, she assured us it will be open .... Guess what it was not... At this point we agreed we where in the shit.... What we did not realise is that is was a 24hr credit card servo.... Should have read the sign... Anyway we topped up and headed for Karratha,  by this time it was getting dark , we booked into a reasonable hotel and jump into the shower (separately of course) by this time it was 6:30... time for a beer and dinner before "The Voice".  We settled in on the queen bed at a respectable distance apart to watch "The Voice".... What a day. Hence no time to update the blog and not many pictures.


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