Day on the Tanami

Day 29

Woke up in a nice camp site by the water to a nice brisk morning. With the birds singing. What more could you ask for. Yes we are about 200K’s into the Tanami and have a long way to go. So it looks like we will be camped on the track again tonight somewhere so we will see how we go.
It was a long haul today and there weren’t to many people on the track first up this morning. We stopped at the border for smoko and to loss an hour and a half and then further down the road we had lunch. The road once we crossed the border into NT was fairly good we could sit on mostly 70-80K’s /hr. Well then we came across the road works. They are doing up nearly 200K’s of the Tanami that will be bitumen in less than twelve months. So most of the time we had to sit on a beautiful road at 60k/hr. Unreal. We were traveling at about 4pm and heard a noise coming from the camper wheel. I knew we had a problem with the brakes but the noise was bad. So we had to stop on the side of the road works and have a look. Well all of a sudden it was like grand central station, we had cars going past every 10min. A lot of people were pulling up and asking if they could help. We had to find out what the problem was first. So I started pulling off the camper wheels trying to check out the brakes. Eventually I had to take off y to he whole hub and found the complete brake mech had collapsed. This was good because it wasn’t the bearing and we could remove all the broken parts and put it back together and get underway again. It was dark by the time we reached our camp site and when we turned on lights the bugs invaded. So it was cups soup and bath and off to bed. What a day only about 550k’s.Read more