Cadet Reporter: Michael Gavin
Broken car in Broken Hill!!! The weather for the day not looking promising with a lightning storm and tropical downpour to start the day.
The accommodation we were placed in by RACV was a renovated miners cottage – Hebbard Cottage. It is great with everything you need and more including breakfast cereals etc. A good view can be seen at www.uniqueoutback.com. it is the white cottage with the bull-nose verandah.
The Prado is delivered to Toyota Broken Hill for assessment once the other jobs in the workshop are attended to. Finally late morning we receive the diagnosis of a collapsed/broken front shock absorber and spring damage……with Monday being a public holiday in NSW we are told that earliest Toyota could repair would be Tuesday next week, provided they had received non Toyota replacement parts.
Numerous phone calls are made to Melbourne and Paul at Patrolapart – Lilydale arranges for new shockers to be air freighted to Broken Hill that day. RACV had extended the accommodation and hire car for us, until the repairs are resolved, which is a big relief.
Hopefully the parts will be here on Thursday to enable repairs by the NRMA/Repco Agent either Thursday or Friday morning.
Whilst we are waiting, Tony & Jen, Michael & Dot intend to take in as much of Broken Hill and surrounds as possible.
We hope to be on the road by Friday, heading to home. We understand the grandchildren are in count down mode for our arrival…which has now been delayed by a day or so.
See you soon Belle, Mikey, from Nanna & Pa.
See you soon Asher & Jarvis from Nanna & Pa, Grandma & Grandpa.
This is the final blog entry for Tony’s Tag-along Trip. It has been a wonderful trip experiencing such a diverse, rugged beautiful empty outback Australia. Thank you to all members of the party for their contribution, fellowship and friendship during our journey. Dot has said how the next weeks will be somewhat lonely without the daily contact and interaction of the Group.
Thanks Tony for organising such a great trip and especially for inviting US. We had a marvellous time and saw parts of Australia that we would never have been able to do by ourselves.
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