Today’s journey was an average length to our next free camp at Jilah Rockhole…

As we got going a loud cry was heard from Gordie….. his caravan lights were not working again…. Branch had a quick look…. Gordie was very unhappy as he had just spent $500 at the auto electrician…. Anyway the decision was made to continue on as the road was straight – not many turns would be needed and we would sandwich Gordie in between us and the Weiss van… Macgyver would take a look with Gordie at the camp tonight – probably just a loose wire or fuse – hopefully simple…

Gordie was really keen to stop for firewood so after looking for a while, we stopped at a small rest area to try and collect some… Gordie and Trev cut down a small dead tree and loaded it into the back of the Titan….

In the process, Gordie sconed himself on a dead branch (not the blue kind)… fortunately with his sunnies on he did not get poked in the eye!!

We passed the derelict Balladonia homestead…

The familiar warnings about stray animals appeared….

As we commenced the section of the longest straight section of road in Australia it was interesting to see on the GPS when our next turnoff was…. The road did seem endlessly straight!!

To the left of us was the long range of rocky hill… and then we drove through Madura pass looking toward our right over the plains below – after the long straight and flat journey it seemed impossible that there would be a drive down a pass….

Road trains were quite frequent – and happy to overtake us as we were sitting on approx. 98kmph average trying to be economical on fuel…

We found Jilah Rockhole without too much of an issue – it was quite full already with vans however we were able to make a wagon train of sorts with a fire in the centre….

Branch and MacGyver took another look at Gordie’s 12 pin plug – Gordie opened it and a lot of rock and debris fell out – so a good clean was in order then a spray with the autoelectric lubricant…. and the lights on the van were working again!!

After happy hour and dinner, Rose led us in a devotion on Luke ch 1 and Zechariah’s reaction to the news that he and his wife Elizabeth were going to have a child – John the Baptist…

Toward the end I noticed a black thing on Dave’s precious Uggies…

At first, I thought it was a bug, then noticed it smouldering – his Uggie was on fire as a hot coal had landed on it and was burning through…

Dave quickly removed it and extinguished the fire… and Branch could not resist an inspection…