They have showed us five days of fantastic hospitality, providing us with a site to park our van and feeding us a series of superb meals as well as their company. We have had a fantastic time - thank you guys!
Those gorgeous meals were accompanied by far too much red wine and lots of chat and discussion. My liver will need some time to recover!
While we were here we organised a couple of things. We have had a stoneguard fitted to the van as well as booking in the Troll to have a Steinbauer chip fitted in the hope that it will help us find a little more power and make towing an easier and simpler affair. Fitting is next week in Cairns.
We also took a drive up to Josephine Falls - a magical place that was pumping as a result of the rain that has fallen.
As always, there were backpackers splashing about and risking life and limb in the water - crazy buggers - we watched one come oh so close to being swept over the top of a fall.
Beautiful isn't it?
Back at Neil and Liz's we endured a night where over a foot of rain fell in a steady stream. The next day we needed to get out and have the stoneguard covered and we found that the Troll had been parked in the downstream path of an overflowing stormdrain and had simply sunk in the liquid mud.
Hitched to the van, there was no way we could drive out so the Maxtrax were wedged under the rear wheels and I gently drove onto them where the wheels simply spun and we failed to get anywhere.
Ahhhh!
After a few failed attempts I then put some of those foam flooring panels (those things you by from camping stores that clip together to provide a soft floor) behind the front wheels and voile! We just reversed out without any further problems.
It kept raining though and over the days we were there and the need for me to move the van I ended up almost ploughing their front lawn and I remain embarrassed about it.
Still, the sojourn has ended and we will miss Neil and Liz and we remain grateful for our time there.
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