Adelaide

Trip Start Sep 12, 2007

Trip End Jun 01, 2008

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Some find driving the straight roads of the Nullabor boring, others go so fast along it they see nothing but road, We on the other hand thought it was great, we took our time and enjoyed every minute of it. We took about six days and camped in the middle of nowhere. The roads Trains constanly roared passed sending a cyclone on wind in to the cab, a spray of grit and dust lashed the sides of our faces and left Caroyn's hair in disturbed ringlets. With the suction of wind all four bonnet catches un hooked and and the two locating pins came out from there holes, the only thing that kept Chitty's bonnet on was the trusty leather Marks and Spencer belts. We took the oportunity to stop at most scenic sights of the southern ocean and it was well worth it.
Secured to Chitty's grille was the brass Spitfire plane which en-route the propeller flew round from the Isle of wight across the globe. Sadly when Chitty came out of the container in Fremantle the Spitfire mascot had been stolen in Malaysia. Although sealed in the container it was re-opened and we lost a few personal bits and bobs but most importantly the mascot had gone. Half way across Australia we passed by the town of Kimba and found a Kangaroo and a friendly engineer nexk door who drilled a hole in it for us! so now we have Kimba the Kangaroo on the bonnet.

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It rains sometimes!	Seals at cape Bridgewater	A wild Koala how cute!	Cape Bridgewater
Birdwood nr Adelaide or is that England?	A mouse in the camp...that was my lunch	Birdwood national motor museum	Gawler town..how grand!
Please can i have a roo snack	Cute eh! the Koalas not bad either!

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tadiw on Feb 23, 2008 at 09:04AM

Happy Birthday Nick
23 Feb
Have an Oz-tastic birthday Bro! Relax, sit back and enjoy the ride....Oh, you are already!
Good to hear you have a new mascot. Now you will have to hop along instead of fly!
Lots of love Tad, Kim, Tom & Tash xxxx

jaynei56 on Feb 23, 2008 at 03:53PM

HAPPY UPSIDE DOWN BIRTHDAY!
Happy bithday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Nick-o-las! happy birthady to you!

have a bonza day mate!
lots of love, Jayne and Dave x x x

Oh and welcome to Kimba the kangar-anger-roo!

kimberleyg on Feb 23, 2008 at 05:01PM

Happy Birthday Nick!
Hey Nick, hope you had a fab aussie birthday!
Martin & I survived our hol in the arctic - our photo's are complete contrast to yours!!!! Talking of which - how about some photo's of the pale B'day boy on the blog????!!!! or has Carolyn traded you in for the Koala?! Great to hear you've got a new mascot - but think you could've called her kimmie!!!!
Miss you loads - easpecialy as you're a year older than me again (for a few months anyway!) Take care. Kimxxx

smudger86 on Feb 23, 2008 at 07:02PM

Hey guys
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK.
How are you both??
Hope all is well and having tonnes of fun and documenting it all for a great recap when your back..
Take care and speak soon.

Rich

kev.m on Feb 24, 2008 at 12:46AM

Happy Birthday!
Hi Nick!, Belated birthday greetings, hope you had a wonderful day.

Really enjoying your posts, did'nt realise western Australia was so beautiful, i can't think what you can do next to top this trip but i'm sure you have some ideas already.

Take care both of you, see you soon.

Kev.