1st - 7th June

Monday 1st

It's still raining and miserable so we decided finally that we had better head for home today. Brian and Colleen also had to leave this morning in a hurry as Brian's mum isn't well - they headed off early while I did my work.

We all trooped over to the laundromat and did our washing, had lunch, etc, before we headed off towards home - we are sure going to miss travelling, but it won't be forever!!

We drove for a few hours and ended up in Cobar for the night - still wet and miserable.

Tuesday 2nd

Still raining so we headed off in the wet and kept heading East. We had just gone through Nevertire near Warren when a warning light came up on the dashboard of the Rover so Ross thought he had better pull off to the side of the road to see what was going on. Unfortunately, the ground was really slippery and before we knew it we were sliding down the side of a slope and ended up in a ditch! As soon as Ross felt it going he gunned it to try and drive out of it but the ground was so slippery it didn't help. He tried driving out once we were at the bottom but we were going nowhere - darn it!! First thing we did was ring the NRMA to explain our predicament and they said they would send someone from Warren to assess the situation and if they couldn't get us out then they would have to send a tow truck and then we would have to pay.

The NRMA was going to be a while so we started getting out our recovery gear to try and work out if we could get ourselves out of this sticky situation. A very helpful local pulled up in his 4x4 and asked us what we were doing down there and that if we had have pulled off a few hundred metres up the road then we wouldn't have had a problem and then drove off - thanks buddy! It is a very quiet road so we didn't think anyone else would come along to help. Fortunately, a couple of guys - 1 in a truck and 1 in a Landcruiser coming in opposite directions saw us and pulled over - they knew each other which helped! They were great. In no time they had us hooked up to the Cruiser and towed us out - caravan and all - not a bad feat - got it all on video. There was a bit of a hairy moment there for a while when I thought the caravan was going to tip, but they made it look so easy - pretty sure they have done that before. We thanked our saviours and gave them our details in case they were ever in the area and we could buy them a beer! Just before they pulled us out the NRMA guy showed up and told us that he had pulled several vehicles out of the same area recently because it is very deceptive and you don't realise how slippery it is. We were all pretty muddy by the end but all in all it all turned out pretty good thankfully!

We kept going and ended up in Warren for the night and got home the next night after a long drive through the Walch mountains.