or so we thought, we flew up to Darwin to get Skippy from the good hands of Niko, this part of this went superbly and Skippy came out with flying colours.
New oils, new battery, fresh new rubba and we were off, but first a hoon around Litchfeild Park with Niko and Yessi and a grand day out.
Phil Scott had taken delivery of our new tyres so we spooned these on at Nikos.
Kakadu National Park, anyone who is anyone knows that Crocadile Dundee was filmed here so for me it was a must stop and see, which we did.
On exiting the park after no cell service we had many messages to call home, a quick call to home established my dad had fallen very ill and very quickly, they gave him 6 weeks at best.
Our descsion was to either back track to Darwin or B line it to Cairns or Townsville.
Our descison was to Cairns as it appeared to be the only airport we could fly back to Christchurch direct.
We rode 2596km in 4.5 days with the easterly wind in our face at about 70 km/hr all day so like trying to ride Skippy at 140km/hr all day, one day was 636km which was very hard.
A well earned stop in the middle at hot pools.
We made it to Cairns where we had organised a place for Skippy to stay with the help of fellow international travellers Belinda and Patrick Peck, they saved our arses for which we will be forever grateful.
Flying back to Christchurch was staright into the cold and with bad news looming so we were not exactly excited about heading back.
No comments:
Post a Comment