Gidday all,

Camp 5 along the rail line, a rain shower over the flinders ranges produced a rainbow which looked wonderful.

 

During the day we came to a nasty washout with a deep trench at the bottom. As we were ahead of Deb I called up on the hand held uhf to Deb about it, she intended to take it slow but as the camels approached they decided to speed up and took it at a jog. The wagon hit the bottom and bounced over with a bang. After an inspection a bent rear spring was discovered. Pulled up for the night and wired a bar on it for support.

 

Job done and camp set up.

 

Pancakes for breakfast, then back on the road .

Two more days and arrived at Parachilna, a railway siding with a pub and not much else.

As we rolled in we noticed a small 4wd wreck in a paddock, mental note taken. I climbed onto the wagon to man the brake and Deb led the camels and rolled on past the pub with some locals out front taking photos. As we passed Deb asked one if this was a thirsty camel pup, but I think the joke went over his head.

Found a camp and next day went to check out the 4wd wreck. The two back springs were intact, so we got to work removing them. No one was about, so no one objected.

Will pull up in the next few days and do the repairs to the spring.