The trip up was nothing short of a disaster.. I woke up on the Thursday morning and found my servers were down.. They weren’t back online till around midnight that night so we didn’t leave Thursday.. Friday wasn’t much better waking up to discover someone had been in the back yard and stolen a few things.. I rang the insurance company to check on the policy and found out that it wasn’t current, and they didn’t even have a record of it anywhere Got a new policy organised and in the process had to upgrade the security of the house, so I spent most of the day fitting new locks to all the windows and sliding doors.. Had it all completed by 2pm and took off figuring we’d still make the barge..
We headed up the gateway and came to a complete standstill near Boondall.. After 40-45mins of standing on the side of the road, we finally got moving again.. It turned out a Pajero and caravan had rolled blocking both sides of the gateway.. The caravan looked like a pancake but the Pajero appeared ok.. We then flew the rest of the way turning up on the beach for the barge at just after 5.30pm.. The barges had stopped running so after 20mins of waiting and hoping that the one Fraser side would actually move, we decided to head back down the beach and set-up camp.
Continue Reading Add comment July 9th, 2006
After a false start due to me leaving my wallet at work I finally managed to track someone down to let me in to get it, I finally hit the road northward from the Gold Coast and spent the first night near Mackay, next day I visited Josephine falls before camping at Gordonvale on the banks of the river.