An Unpleasant Surprise

Barry took it to a local tyre repairer and was lucky to catch him on a Saturday. He was locked up tight when we passed at 11.30 am! We'd picked up a screw on the opal fields.

Opal Mine Fields Are Not Good for Cars!

June 21st 2014
It rained on and off throughout the night but not too heavily. When Barry went out to check how boggy the ground was, he was met with a horrible surprise of a different sort. One of the tyres on the ute was flat. The ground was too wet to try and jack the ute up, it would have just sunk into the soil. He decided to pump it up and hope the leak was a slow one so he’d have time to get into town an ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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