Ah, rural farm radio. I'm really growing to love it. Today, we are talking about what is the best meal to warm up on your tractor motor as you plow. I like to listen to the radio and pretend like we are on a relaxing vacation with no worries and a car that starts everyday. Just over 24 hours since we paid $370 to the mechanic in Albany and the van will not start. Foolishly, we are parked in sand and have to recruit the neighboring campers to help push start us. Thankfully, Australians are damn
helpful and always get a kick out of watching the suffering of their fellow campers.
William Bay National Park (south of Denmark) was absolutely beautiful. We camped at Parry's Beach, where the caretaker was a great woman who was looking over a book of all the fish in the ocean in the area and said to us by way of greeting, “Just checki
ng out all the magnificent fish that are out there. Their colours and variety are fantastic.” So, I like Parry's Beach. The cool caretaker and the kindly guys who pushed our vehicle to get it going (but not before harassing me about too much van rocking last night being the source of the issue) were great.Well, we limped along today and stopped at the giant tingle tree (the world's largest known girth Eucalypt tree that is still living) but left the van running since we were not on a hill (we were actually hoping someone would steal it) and the engine died (we were gone about 5 minutes). So, again, we drank. Then, strangely, 2 hours later the van started. The engine does NOT sound go
od. It's miss firing as we drive and a disconcerting ticking noise has started. We are camped in the forest (on a hill) and now just shooting to get to Perth to get rid of this thing. Can't stop to see anything unless it's on a hill (which none of the good stuff seems to be).A final thanks to Sarah for the tequila she gave us before we left. It's come in quite handy this evening.
Those views are just amazing!
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