We hadn’t actually towed the van any distance for 12 weeks (apart from to and from storage) so it felt a bit strange to have it behind us again. I drove until lunch time (I usually do because I get sleepy in the afternoon) and Russ after that. I was busy admiring the huge grevillias either side of the road when we nearly hit an emu. They are really stupid birds, almost as stupid as the hundreds of pheasants we almost killed in England, but a heap bigger.
After we set up, we went and did some shopping then some 4wding in search of a fishing spot we’d been told about. It was all going really well until I said we’d come one particular way and we hadn’t and we ended ups slightly stuck in some extremely soft, thick sand-Russ was Not Happy Jan! anyway, a bit of air out of the tires and we were on our way again.
The good bit of the road
When we got home, a guy was trying to pop his pop-up up but it wouldn’t work-the winder was broken. He ended up just standing there looking very pissed off, having a beer before booking into a cabin. They towed the van away to be repaired this morning.
Today we went back out to River Road (no trouble at all this time) and had a lovely day fishing off the bank for bream and mulloway. We only got two of each, but that is more than enough for our dinner tonight. It was beautiful out there. We were 6km up river from town and we didn’t see another person all day. We saw lots of groups of emus coming down to a small beach opposite us where they would just sit for a while before wandering off. I reckon we saw ten different groups. We also saw kangaroos and many different birds-ducks, swans, pelicans, gulls, terns, herons, sea eagles etc and the emus. And we lost no gear, found a nice rod holder and $2 so a good day all round.
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