Paradise Lost on the Track

Day 15 Anzac Day 25^th April

This blog is being written from the bedroom of a very expensive resort in Broome!

 We decided to leave Cape Leveque a day early to go back to Broome!

 Kooljamon Resort is beautiful, especially if you are an environmentally friendly camper and the pristine beaches are your main, agenda!

This cute little crab joined us during a morning swim.

We had adopted a great ritual of down to the beach early in the morning for a day break swim and then back to the tent, for coffee and breakfast, then pack up lunch, chairs and a shade tarpaulin and back to the beach and set up our little day time shelter complete with chairs, fridges and food  to relax for three hours. Then back to the tent for a nanna nap!

Sounds great, right!!!

Let me tell you about the mosquitoes!! Two of them were big enough to cart us away, but they chose to send their whole army of 50.000. Paul was worried about which fever he would end up dying of caused by these giant mosquito hoards  which acted more like giant dive bombers from WWII. Which would strike first, Malaria, Dengue fever or Ross River Virus or perhaps some other virus you could relate to a mossie plague!

Even worse, Cape Leveque can- not sell Alcohol, AND PAUL RAN OUT OF BEER!

So we decided to depart from Paradise.

Wrong move!!

We were heading back along the really, really bad road, (appalling track), I had my nose in a riveting book  (just to help the rough ride go quicker), when I felt a rather larger bump.  I heard Paul say "There goes the wheel (actually he said more than that, but I feel it would be wiser to leave some of it out) I really didn't take much notice as we had already had one flat tyre so I assumed that was what he meant. I just gave a quick glance up, only to see our entire wheel rolling past us and on down the track! The wheel bearings had given u the ghost

The following pictures can spell it out for you, and you know why this entry is being written from a Resort (expensive) in Broome.

 All I can say Di and John,  Stewie and Caroline, BEWARE  the Cape Leveque Road. Total bill; Camp Site, $160 dollars, Flat Bed tow truck (after a long discussion and bargaining because he did have to travel nearly the full section of the unsurfaced road) $1000, hotel accommodation and meals, $700 and we still have to get the trailer fixed!

Paradise can be expensive