On Friday, after another early start, we got into our groups and picked up our new wheels from the garage. Our ride, a toyota truck which had been used down the mines, we were told was "about 4 years old" despite it having 160k on the clock and being a really faded cream colour. Our group of eleven filled it right up, two of them had been on my boat in the Whitsundays and the rest were a mix of english, irish, dutch, german and brazilian. We designated the dutch guy, Michael, as our driver for the trip as he'd been driving a 4x4 around most of his time in Australia, though we weren't so sure it was a good choice when he nearly rolled it at the first roundabout on the way to the
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