A big drive ahead of us today. Up at 0700hrs. No breakfast, just packed up the swag and tent and left by 0720hrs!
We'll stop at Brewarrina for breakfast and check out the fish trap.
I'm reading about it now. Amazing. Apparently the Darling and Barwon Rivers flow through what is thought to be the oldest manmade structure on earth!! They are estimated to be about 40 000 years old and still work today!
Hmm sounds more interesting than it looks, but amazing all the same.
Stopped for a scrumptious breakfast in a rustik cafe called "Muddy Waters Coffee Shop" from 0900hrs to 0930hrs. Delicious.
Now we're stuck here. The clutch has died!
Jordan and I walked a couple of blocks to the petrol station to get some clutch fluid. There were a lot of Aboriginal families along the street and Jordan was very clucky, smiling and waving to all of the beautiful children and babies.
Col topped up the fluid and tried bleeding it with no luck. Col thinks it will be the master cylinder.
There is no signal on our phones so Col walked around to the servo to ring NRMA and get assistance. They told him there wasn't much they could do and to try the local mechanic another couple of blocks away.
We wanted to drive there rather than waiting a day for NRMA or paying for a tow truck.
Col did well. He managed to start the car uphill with no clutch, kangaroo hopping, to get to the mechanic.
The mechanic also bled the clutch plus suctioned and pressurised it with no luck and no parts in stock to replace it.
He let me use his phone (telstra only here) to let Peter know and gave us a number to ring to check for parts in Tamworth.
Wow. He didn't want any money for his time as he "..didn't fix it". Thank you for your wonderful attempt and friendly hospitality. Very kind. The mechanis was across the road from the local school. I thought they didn't have a uniform, but he said the kids are just slack and won't wear them.
We managed to leave Brewarrina at 1140hrs.
Col's going to drive to Tamworth with no clutch!
Jack's laughing, saying that this is just like on "The Gods Must Be Crazy" where he also can't stop.
Sheep, galahs, emus, cows...almost made us stop! All screaming at the cows.. "get off the road, it's too hard to start again!"
Then Jack announced he had to wee. We considered letting him jump out, driving along slowly while he caught back up and jumped in again (don't worry just kidding). That would have been a scene off the above mentioned movie.
So we stopped for all to have a drink and toilet break and had a lot of trouble getting going and up the gears again.
Luck was with us though, managing to coast through towns in 2nd or 3rd and not having to stop.
It's amazing to see green mountains again coming into Narrabri, and the creek was about to break it's banks.
We arrived at Peter and Anthea's at 1800hrs. Madison and Haley were so excited to see Jordan and Jack.
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