Last minute excitement!

Our Discovery doesn't look like this yet! An old Landrover at Woomera

What is this saying?

Sunset over Woomera

Some of the flora at Pimba,near Woomera, Stuart Highway

Bob and I talking to Ron Wallace, whose son knows Mark and whose wife I nursed.

First of all apologies to Matt Dickson (and Mark) for calling him Mark in the last post!! Yvonne

Things have not got any less exciting for us on our homeward journey! After finally sorting out the trailer wheel problem in Coober Pedy by putting smaller wheels on the trailer, the Discovery has decided to get in on the act and yesterday, after coughing and spluttering for some distance on our way into Port Augusta, Bob had to replace the fuel filter on the side of the road and we were off again! Spent last night in Broken Hill and met up with Bob's sister Carol and her husband Ian who have been travelling around the country in their Winnebago. Funnily they didn't want to do a swap with us! Can't understand why really!

A monster load on Stuart Highway - it absolutely filled the road!

Fay making sandwiches while Bob replaced fuel filter - Port Augusta

Warwick trying to look useful - he actually is most of the time!

The rear wheel had to come off to change the fuel filter.

This morning after a later start than planned due to the Discovery displaying one of it's idiocincracies, in that it sometimes starts, then stops and won't go again for an hour, we were going great guns until half way between Broken Hill and Wilcannia when it started spluttering again! :-( We couldn't believe it!! Bob nursed it along for a while but finally came to a halt and it wouldn't go any further! Bob was thinking at that stage that it must have been the fuel pump. A passing motorist took the details and was going to ring the NRMA for us in Broken Hill but after sitting for 11/2 hrs Bob decided to try it again and amazingly the car started and it hasn't missed a beat since!! :-). So here we are in Cobar instead of Nyngan but hopefully we'll still get home tomorrow pm!! Have seen lots of emus along the way since leaving 'Alice'.

Fay with Ron Wallace, Pimba

We had one of those amazing times of crossing paths with someone out of the blue at Spuds Roadhouse at Pimba. Fay struck up a conversation with an elderly gentleman who came in for some breakfast and it turned out that his son is a pilot and knows Bob and Fay's son-in-law Mark through MAF and RFDS. It also turned out that I had nursed his late wife at Old Timers and I remembered him coming in to visit her!! It sure is a small world sometimes!

Dinner with Carol and Ian in their Winnebago, Broken Hill

Darling River Wilcannia