Twins first 4x4 expedition

G'day all, to those that remember, my other half gave birth to twins nearly five months ago (l know it has gone quick) after a lot of trouble during the pregnancy, anyway Tommy and Mitch are thriving, two real little characters and they had their first taste of 4x4 driving last weekend. We headed down to the Otways on the Great Ocean Road (Vic) and did they have an adventure, it started of as a family walk through the rain forest canopy on an elevated walking trail with us and forum member Kim(mr) who happens to be a childhood mate and his finacee Sarah who is my sister-in-law. Anyway we went down one track that was supposed to be a tourist 4x4 track, but after a couple of very challanging obstacle we decided we were not turning back beause it could not get any werse, well it snow balled fron there, it did get werse and kept getting werse, but we had gone too far and had to keep going. To cut a long story short at about 2am we abandened Kims mighty 3L patrol and all climbed into the ever reliable 80 series cruiser, but after another hour of getting bogged constantly we decided it would be best if we give up and try again in the morning as we had plenty of food, water and bottle for the boys and a bottle warmer that plugged into the cigerette lighter. So the cruiser turned into an eight birth cabin with it runnig all night with the heater on. Turns out the next day the end of the track was only about 2k's and three easy bog holes away, not a bad trip for there first, but l am glad it is over. As they say though, alls well that ends well!!

ps. we eventually went back for the patrol and got it out. To those who care, the patrol is a 2000 GU and my cruiser is an 80 series standard 91, both deisel, we filled them both in Dalesford and then again in Apollo bay, approx 200k and the cruiser used 4.7 liters less than the patrol!!!!!!!