Saturday, Sept 27
We left Archer River on route to Chilli Beach. Shortly before crossing The Wenlock River, things went awfully pear shaped. While negotiating a windy and corrugated section of the Lockhart River Road, our trailer got all out of shape and after sliding off the road and hitting a fallen tree, turned turtle and ended up on its roof. Sally was amazed as after the trailer stopped fish tailing, she saw it in the rear vision mirror sailing through the air up-side-down. The damage was severe and after removing the electric brakes from one sad looking wheel hub and replacing the exploded tyre and bent wheel, we righted the tailer and limped back to Archer River to lick our wounds and evaluated our situation.
We left Archer River on route to Chilli Beach. Shortly before crossing The Wenlock River, things went awfully pear shaped. While negotiating a windy and corrugated section of the Lockhart River Road, our trailer got all out of shape and after sliding off the road and hitting a fallen tree, turned turtle and ended up on its roof. Sally was amazed as after the trailer stopped fish tailing, she saw it in the rear vision mirror sailing through the air up-side-down. The damage was severe and after removing the electric brakes from one sad looking wheel hub and replacing the exploded tyre and bent wheel, we righted the tailer and limped back to Archer River to lick our wounds and evaluated our situation.
Broken Camper Trailer
Righting the Trailer
We returned to Archer River Road House in time for the AFL Grand Final telecast. Setup the camper and used it for the last time. We discussed our delemor with Mike and Jan and we decided that there was little we could do until Monday so we decided to have another assault on Chilli Beach tomorrow. We arranged for assistance from two truckies who we at the roadhouse to stop in on their return to Cairns to collect our excess equipment. We found some budding rocksitters at camp that night so joined them for a drink.
Archer River RockSitters
The late night entertainment was interesting we one local searching for a gentleman called “RICHARD YOU @#%$@” at 2am waking everyone in the camp in her quest. Sunday, Sept 28 We headed out early this morning not knowing exactly how long this trip would take. As we were told, after we crossed the Wenlock River, the road conditions did, indeed, improve. This, however, didn’t prevent Mike from getting another flat. This time the rock tore a hole in the wall of his tire.
Mike’s Flat
We arrived a Chilli Beach and lucked on a excellent campsite right on the beach. Very Picturest under palm trees and old shady trees. Even to the extent, that later in the day, another couple pulled up with no campsites remaining. We spoke to them and told them we would only be in ours for a night which suited them fine as they planned to say a week and agreed our site was excellent. They slept in their car in the car park that night and would claim our spot tomorrow.
Chilli Beach
Archer River RockSitters
The late night entertainment was interesting we one local searching for a gentleman called “RICHARD YOU @#%$@” at 2am waking everyone in the camp in her quest. Sunday, Sept 28 We headed out early this morning not knowing exactly how long this trip would take. As we were told, after we crossed the Wenlock River, the road conditions did, indeed, improve. This, however, didn’t prevent Mike from getting another flat. This time the rock tore a hole in the wall of his tire.
Mike’s Flat
We arrived a Chilli Beach and lucked on a excellent campsite right on the beach. Very Picturest under palm trees and old shady trees. Even to the extent, that later in the day, another couple pulled up with no campsites remaining. We spoke to them and told them we would only be in ours for a night which suited them fine as they planned to say a week and agreed our site was excellent. They slept in their car in the car park that night and would claim our spot tomorrow.
Chilli Beach
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