We were on the move by 8:15 which we figured would give us
plenty of time to get to Tom Price for the 10am mine tour. De drove as I
attempted to catch up on my blogging! We were going great guns even when we
realised that the shorter route to Tom Price would be 70kms of dirt road as it
had just been graded recently.
All was going well and we were about 30kms from
our destination when, while it wasn’t a pop a loud rumble started to come from
the back of the truck.....we had blown a tyre!!
No problems I was onto it and had the old one off and new
one on in about 15 minutes. De called the visitor info centre to let them know
we were now going to be about 5 or 10 minutes late....no problem...we still had
20kms to go and only 5 minutes before the expected departure time when the
phone rang....sorry they couldn’t wait. I planted my foot in the hope we could
intercept the bus but no luck as we pulled in 12 minutes late.....the nice
ladies said there would be another one on Wednesday....I really really had to
bite my tongue!
Jacko was pretty crushed but I said that every cloud has a
silver lining and sure enough I peeked my head into the community centre next
door and they were having vacation care/entertainment. I explained our
predicament to Deb the organiser and she was more than happy to bend the rules
and have them join in! Yeah! Not only did that mean they were happy but we were
free until 11.30!
De went for a cuppa while I headed to the industrial area in
search of a new tyre. The first place wanted $400 for a single tyre, but he who
resembles a fishes bottom managed to find another place up the road who was happy
to balance and fit a near new (90% tread – same tyre) for....$50! He had two so
I got him to also replace the other back one that was down to about 30% and
seen you are such good value throw in a wheel alignment while you are at it! I
had to come back at 1 as they, like a number of shops in town, close from 12-1.
As a treat we went to the greasy spoon for lunch and then I headed back to do
the tyres while De and the boys hung around in town down loading new games and
goof on their Ipoos.
All done and dusted and only $160 lighter I grabbed the
troops and headed to Karajini. As we pulled up to register we recognised the
rig in front of us as Mark and Amy so the boys were straight down there and we
joined them for a brew before heading in for the night.
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