Day 3

After staying at the Ambulance relief quarters we headed off to the local school for breakfast. Equipment was donated to the school, and the children did a gymnastics display.
We parked close to the gate so the exit was relatively straight forward, made easier by the Benz Boys letting us in ( only because my window was down and they could squirt us with their washer) We fueled up before leaving, although there seemed to be a problem with our guage and the pump. However we set off on a relatively long run to Hungerford.
It was in total 320 km of dirt and bull dust covered roads.
We made a right hand turn only to be pulled up by the camera crew to do a live telecaste for NBN news. About 10 cars lined up on the dirt road ready to do a drive by. Not long after appearing on the news Candy came to a spluttering halt. We had run out of fuel! Our excuse was that we wanted to try out our funnel. We got a jerry can out of the boot and were very speedily back on the road.
Lunch was just over the Queensland boarder.
It was back on the road for another 200 km of dirt and dust. We had a late arrival into Thargo as there were a few breakdowns on the way. We offered help , moral support and chips to the weary travellers.
Bill and Ben our friends from the Central Coast ran into radiator problems so we stopped and celebrated sunset beside their fire with some fellow travellers that we flagged down.
It was then time for us to get moving so as to make tea, get our supplies out of the baggage truck and find our accommodation.

There I meet the local teacher and some of the children.