Our new Caravan

 

On Saturday the 25th August we headed south towards Kings Canyon Resort. Unfortunately 65km outside of Alice Springs we lost a wheel off our caravan! Not sure if the brakes jammed or the bearing failed but the bearing disintegrated and hub, break linings and electric brake parts all caught on fire. First we knew was a young guy driving up beside us and frantically pointing for us to pull over! Pretty exciting time but we were lucky that we have dual axles and nothing worse happened. Could of have been a lot worse with us upside in a gutter if both wheels went. We were lucky we were still within mobile phone coverage and "Dicko" from Alice Springs Towing was out with us within and hour. It looked strange to see our caravan sitting high up on the back of a tilt tray. $320 tow job but worth every cent (imagine if we were 500 km out at Kings Canyon!) Took our caravan to the repair place and as it was Saturday afternoon in Alice bugger all was going to happen till Monday.


So without a home to live in we quickly booked into a Chalet (our new caravan) at the first dog friendly caravan park in town.











The chalet turned out to be a single room donga with a pile of dirt and tree root and crater. Not bad for a $100/night :).

Linda relaxing on our verandah












Hopefully repairs wont take too long but this is the NT (Not Today, Not Tomorrow, Not Tuesday,Not Thursday, and definately Not Friday cause were going fishing).