Eulca

The town we wish never to see again.

We stayed in a free campsite on the side of the road over night. Betty was getting a bit hot and needed to have a well earned break, so we decided to have tea/dinner and sleep.

In the morning Betty was drinking coolant and water like no one's business. This triggerd alarms, so we had to pull over. Nearly 5 hours it took the RACV to get to us. We was only 100kms away from Eucla (the last town in WA) 119kms away from the border craig and I had dreamed about crossing.

During the 5 hours we had been on the side of the road, we had made pancakes whilst Ben played with Bettys bits. We then made noodles. Good old backpacker food. The boys went on a boy walk to see what they could find. They found a stick and a fence. Whilst the girls tried to make, friendship bands and other mess.

When you drive along the nullabour your see all these different trees. People decorate them with things from tea bags to flip flops. There was christmas trees, cutlery trees, kitchen tress, electic-trees (all electrical appliances) teddy bear trees.
So as we had nothing to do we started our own tree. We planned that it would be the best tree on the nullabour. And in my opinion it was. We made the Pirate tree.
This part is a bit sick, but your love it.

So on went our blue latex gloves.
We decided to make a dead pirate, out of.... wait for it....... Kangaroo bones and string. It took us a while to do it but it was worth it. We even made a plaq for it. We decorated the tree with few pirate banners and a jolly rogers flag and a solar lamp underneath the pirate.

So if you ever go along the nullabour look for our tree. 100kms west of Eulca



So back to Betty..

She's ill, but fixable. We needed a good mechanic to sort her out. The RACV put us all up in motel for a few nights and they new betty would take a while to be fixed.

The next morning the good mechanic turned up. In fact the good mechanic was an excellent chef and goes by the name of Ben. Yes Ben, Bettys owner. It took him a few days but he done it!!

So yes we was back on the road after 2nights in Eucla.