Thierings on Tour

Today started with yet more chores, including filling all the Jerry cans we have with additional diesel, partly to get good quality diesel from high traffic areas and partly to save some money. We’ve read stories of diesel being close to $3/l as you get up into Cape York Peninsula so $1.78/l seems like a real bargain when you’ve got 180l to fill.

It’s been nice having another 3 day stint of not packing up the van. We had to replace a stabiliser leg on the van, although the one that arrived was damaged in transit. Chris managed a workaround but trying to now get a replacement sent as we are about to set off into remote country will be even harder. We can’t organise a parcel locker as there are no major towns around, but hopefully one of the post offices in Cape York can hold it for us, if it gets there in time as we travel through.

We also have been chasing a hitch lock for weeks and had to go on a bit of a detour to finally buy one that was in stock. By this stage the car passengers were getting a bit restless, and I’m sure the blog readers are getting bored of all these chores, so it’s time to focus on the road.

The coastal road up the highway is just beautiful, it winds around hugging the ocean with amazing rainforests and wpmountains ranges to the left. It’s actually a very unique place where two UNESCO world heritage sites meet – the Daintree rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef

Whilst we initially planned to go to Mossman Gorge today, by the time we arrived we would have been too rushed, so instead we decided to book in for a Dreamtime walking tour for tomorrow instead and headed off to set up camp for the night.

Camp was at the back of a golf course with huge fields of sugarcane right behind us.

Just then, Chris realised that there was water pouring out from under the van. He quickly found a leak under our main bed from the hot water pressure valve (or something like that), and managed to stop it. Now trying to find a replacement part turned out to be much more problematic given we had left the last major town. 

Whilst Chris and the girls chased a replacement part I had some meetings and finished off some work. When they came back, the news was that the part  would have to come from Cairns, but luckily the amazing guy Chris spoke to arranged a courier to drive it up to us the next day! It just meant we would have to stay an extra night, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s no issue and at least we would have water for the remote parts where we absolutely need to have our own water! Phew, lucky I have such a clever, handy mechanic for a husband.

The girls kept busy with duplo and a bit of homework and before we knew it, we were into the regular dinner and bed routine. Another left-wing, adventurous in the wrong kind of way day, but let’s hope there’s more fun to come!

Kms travelled – 140