day 2
left Mt Isa and drove to Comoweal which is the border with Northern Territory, had breaky and drove the 10 Km to the Border
suddenly the road got wider and much better quality.
Nt speed limit is 130 and police do not patrol outside of townships :yes: Bought the most expensive fuel in Australia at a place called Barkly Homestead.. $1.79.9 :hmm:
got about 10 km from three ways which is the turn for adelaide/darwin and had a high speed blow out drivers right front .no Problem put the spare on ...
kept driving and about 400km further up the road the spare blew..
what to do, middle of bumf@$k nowhere ...
213 km back to the nearest town or 125km forward to another "town"
found a steak knife in the boot and proceeded to cut the tyre off the rim.. :rolls:
all good
drove 125km on the steel rim..
get to the "town" servo burnt down 3 yrs ago,
went to the pub asked around , old horder had a tyre which he fitted to the "other "spare
all good
drove to Katherine...
arrived in Katherine at n10pm last night and the servo was full of drunk and abusive COONS..
i was like f@$k this the car will be stripped and i'll be bashed and robbed, so i left there with 1/2 a tank of fuel
all good
get to the next town Pine river, servo is shut so i see a sign saying fuel in 32km at emerald springs
ok
get 20.7 km out of pine river and car stops
out of fuel
FFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUU
road trains are going by 1 ft away at 120km an hr
decide to have a sleep...
got up this morning and hitched a ride to Emerald Springs ...guess what .Pumps were removed 2 yrs ago...
FFFF UUUU
so hitched a ride back to Pine River and bought a 10 litre gerry can filled it =$50.00
hitched back to car ,filled it then drove it back to Pine River for fuel
all good
the last 213km were as uneventful as the first 2800 kms
I am in Darwin , we both made it, both are in as good a shape as when we left within reason.
fly home Tomorrow
the end
some pics ..