The Sherriff Cometh

We ended up staying seven nights at St. Lawrence free park. As I said it is a great place if you don’t upset the local “Sherriff”. A council guy came over to us on Tuesday and told us we were not allowed to run our generator where we were. The wrong side of the sign, I told him that the old couple next door to us were the only people in the whole park!!! We both had genies going and were not disturbing anybody but the birds. We could not park on the other side as it was too muddy from the six inches of rain we had over night. He said any one who came in would go straight to the council and complain!! Oh! Well OK then. I moved the genie 15 mts to the left of the sign and ran it as I needed to charge the batteries. He came past again, saw what I had done and just drove off. I think I inflamed the situation when I told him to go and get a plastic Sherriff’s badge. Never mind, my mate next door left the next day as he was a bit pissed off with the guy, we had both spent money in the town and liked the place.
We left on Monday to head further south, it rained all bloody day. We spent a night at Boyne River Free camp, not bad but the toilets were very dirty. From there to Gin Gin Rest Area where they were doing road works, we met a couple from earlier in the last two places, Rod & Terri were going to their mothers place for a few weeks R&R. Nice couple and a bit of fun, with a big dog too!!
The next port of call was to Bundaburg Caravan Repairs to get a leak fixed. We followed the mud map I had written down from Barry’s wife Kerry. We went over the Cedar Creek crossing, bloody hell !! the water was lapping at the edge of the concrete pathway, very narrow too. We finally arrived and had to negotiate the very muddy driveway.Barry and his wife looked after us very well indeed. We stayed at their mini park as they were all set up for visitors, power water etc. Misty loved the place, she had a hundred acres to explore with her new found friend “Bennie” the boarder collie pup, dad’s name is “Jack”. They played for hours, Misty saw her first chickens!!!! And tasted Chicken food and chicken droppings as well, Yummmmm!!! She was a mess, Fae got a bath ready for her , too bad little dog, she was not coming in like that.
The next morning Barry and Kerry came to say goodbye as they were off to Bundy for the day. See Ya Later we said, not knowing how soon that would be!!***###
We hooked up and headed off down the drive, dodged a couple of holes and slid a bit in the mud. Went off the very cut up track for a piece and ended up in a drain at the side of the drive, Tug down in the LH rear, van down RH both axels, Hopelessly bogged in Barry’s driveway. Shit ,Dam!!!***###
No phone reception, van looked as though it should have been in a cross country derby, mud every- where from the tugs spinning wheels. The tug was a complete mess. No phone coverage, hell what else could go wrong. We walked back to the house and Fae picked up one bar of signal on her mobile. We called Barry and asked when he was going to be home!!!!! How embarrassing.
Barry turned up with his Hyundia to provide the extra grunt I needed and we were out. He had a bore outlet about 50mtrs from where we were so the van and tug had a quick wash to get the very sticky mud off. Thanks again Barry Wells from Bundaberg Caravan Repairs 0408 757678