A sight we saw just West of Camooweal was a guy with a couple of camels towing what used to be a car. Evidently he has taken out the motor to make it lighter for the camels.
Not long after passing the camels Brandt suddenly pulled to the side of the road and stopped. As he stopped I smelt engine heat. Then I saw steam coming from under the bonnet. The water pump had "packed a sad"
For some reason the Satphone wouldn't connect to the free phone numbers we had so a passing traveller took Brandt back to Avon Downs police station to make the appropriate phone calls. At first they were going to send someone from Tennant Creek (at a surcharge of $2000+ as our policy only covers a distance of 200km). Then as we were not far from the Queensland border they decided to see if we could be serviced from Queensland. We were 84 km from Camooweal and there was an agent there.
At one stage I walked around the vehicle to go take some photos. To stand on a burr is not pleasant. The hard spike penetrates my "croc" sole.
So late Saturday afternoon we were loaded up and taken back to Camooweal.
The above photo is of the view in the rear vision mirror.
RACQ is paying our Caravan Park fees, and we will probably be here for about a week.
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