Our Trip

Day Two

Well, the second day of our trip took us 

from Kununurra to Halls Creek. 

Before we left Kununurra, we fuelled up

the drums and topped up the vehicles.

561 Litres later, you do the math! 

We made sure we drank more coffee

and bought some cold coke along the way

as pretty soon it would be a distant memory. 

Just a side note; I just wanted to play the 

newspaper reporter here and write something that 

gives credit to Emilee and her great achievement. 

If I was to write a rather wordy newspaper story title, 

it would go something like this: 

NEWSFLASH!!

18 year old, one-eyed P plater takes on

the Canning Stock Route in 

her trusty 79 series ute, on her first off road 

4WD adventure, and makes it through with flying colours,

despite having her 2 sisters riding along 

doing their best to belt out very poor renditions

of Old MacDonald had a Farm and Baa Baa Black Sheep

to various tunes, and fighting over who got the window seat

and why there was no more red snakes! 

No, seriously, Emilee really does need to be congratulated

on putting up with her sisters the whole trip and not 

kicking them out when they were distractingly annoying! 

This was Emilee's first off road trip and she drove

amazingly well! Traversing sand dunes, washouts,

dry river beds, rocky outcrops and corrugates that made your teeth rattle.

To tackle a trip of this magnitude took some guts 

and a whole lot of stamina and concentration,

but she did really well, and we were very proud of her! 

Anyway, back to Day Two.

We travelled to Halls Creek where we 

stayed in a Caravan Park and had our last real hot shower.

I didn't sleep well, with strange noises and goings on

throughout the night, including watching a police car

patrol the park and finally, climb a tree (not the car, the policeman), 

near our tent, and put up a 

surveillance camera, that they retrieved in the morning, 

not sure what they were looking for,

but it made for interesting viewing for me

while everyone else was sleeping. 

Well, the morning came all too soon, 

and once again we went in search of coffee

and headed off to finally get off the bitumen 

and onto some 'real' road! 

To be continued...………...