Quick Update

Cairns has been a bit of a trial really. We got the bus back on Friday afternoon after 3 weeks of work to rebuild the engine, not a cheap excercise but had to be done, a cyclinder bore had failed and water was going into the engine where it shouldn't have. The drive back to the caravan park in the "new" bus was cut short when I noticed the temperature gauge very hot, pulled over,and found water pouring from the side of the engine. It had blown out a welch plug!! 2km from the mechanic.... They sent out a couple of guys to fix it and 3 hours later I drove the last 1 km to the caravan park. We are looking forward to getting back on the road tomorrow, over the Great Dividing Range to Atherton and Lake Tinaroo where I am going to try and catch a barra. We will just have to wait and see how our new engine goes, we do not want to get too far away from Cairns until we are confident that the bus is 100% again. The computer saga also continues, had to go back in again....... So much of this journey to catch up on, will try and write about our Cooktown adventures soon. All the best, A