FISHABOUT- King Ash Bay Aug.Sep. 2011: FISHABOUT

Two weeks in Port Lincoln fine tuning the 'TROOPY' for her maiden 'TOWING' trip.

Haven't even left town and a chipped windscreen from one of
DK McDonalds trucks. Insurance covered this. Tinnie had 2 cracked ribs, Mark fixed these had him weld up all rib's plus add a step on the rear for easy access. 3" exhaust not delivered in time, will get fitted in Oct. on our return to the Driver River Church 100 years. Quick flick thru the local new's paper - spotted a 'SHED'!

Routine road check up the road found van bearings / brakes HOT. Recently adjusted brakes, so backed off the brakes.

Not until we got to Port Augusta figured out the problem. With head lights on, the electronic brakes were 'LIVE'. Thus activated slightly - no head lights whilst driving with van in tow all okay. Alice Springs - Scorpion Auto Electrics stung us $20, for 2 minutes to advise us the brake controller was faulty = Hogwash!

Coober Pedy camels being relocated - tour operator conducting camel treks thru the outback

Frill neck lizard - couldn't get him to FRILL!

Here for the day - only 204k's big days drive, serious head winds.

Set up weather station

Wind gusting at 58.7kph, no wonder fuel was 4.3kpl or 23.18 ltr's per 100k's. 5th gear, more on that later - Strez Track.

What no parking sign! All the way from USA. East Coast to Perth via Great Central Road, hoping for the head winds to abate, or get a lift out to Eyers Rock.

Camped south of Alice Springs - gravel pit. Watching the

bush fire and wind direction

Wind's changed we are out of here. Went back to

Rainbow Valley, fire already burnt thru there.

Next morning - our gravel pit camp burnt out!

One way to carry a back-up vehicle

Impressive set up complete with trailer

Yes, enjoyed the rest, but ________!

Tire monitoring system - Tireguard saved the day. Very slow leak with the alarm going off after we parked up for the day. Check out - www.daviescraig.com.au - well worth the investment, we found the booster was required to get signal from rear tires.

Taking our time - 8 days, and ready to kick back and relax!

and relax we did, once our camp was set up. 4 days of wind, this is the first calm morning at King Ash Bay.

Adding some velcro tabs to the new shade extension

Catching up with Don & Chris who were at KAB in 2010

Easy this fishing - tinnies not even in the water and vaccum sealed fish. Thanks Bill and Luba (BT owners) we meet in 2008 at KAB.

Bill cleaning more fish!

Kim (Woody) - our neighbour was very happy with this fish!

We got the fish wings for tea.

Our 1st fish each - both released!

Mitre 11 - KAB, good frame, now repaired

with seat belt webbing and in our SHED!

When ya! gotta take a DUMP! Ya! gotta go!

KAB - Golf, 6 holes, 3 rounds = 18 for those

numerically challanged

Very professional

Looking the part! Good practice for our Nullabor links

tour in November.

Best part of the day - no wind!

This family found the high spot amonst the mangrove,

not hard to do, but a good referance point

Yeah! Teased this fellow out for Sue - at least 10 cast (fly fishing). Then Sue flicked in a weighted fly, bang 1st cast, Sue was still shaking for 20 minutes after landing!