Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 20:03
My clever 4WD idea #1...NEVER trust the road advisory signs! 3 weeks ago the
Muttaburra-Prarie sign said "open" and we assumed that all was well.
Yeh, right!
By the time we realised it was wet black soil and it was getting a bit "iffy" it was too late to turn around because the road edges were worse than the middle and we'd have sunk...
50 km of what my husband calls "we were all passengers more than once": crawling sideways, slipping and sliding... and being very grateful for the Sorento's low range and the hubby's driving skills, and also as grateful as hell that the big black clouds dropped their load in the distance and not on us!!
4WD hint #2: always have spare food for times when you may get caught on a track that should never have been declared open!!
We didn't get caught. But it came damn close.
PS: A plug for the nice man who runs the caravan park in
Hughenden (the one near the
Winton Rd) for lending us his high pressure hose. That 45 minute high pressure hose job at the truck wash saved us days with a bucket and sponges!!
Oh...and I keep hubby's credit card as my spare (tee hee!!)
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