19th August

Another glorious day, crisp with bright blue sky. We headed off early again to stake our position as close to the front as possible. As per usual there was a window of opportunity to get fairly close. We had one of the Cricketers cars in front and one behind. We were quite pleased with ourselves. It was all looking good. Then an opportunity arose where we could take advantage of the situation so we jumped in their car to find something which we could use to bargain with. We made it quite difficult for them to remove us. We managed a few items and we also lost a few. It was then time to eat, so we left Candy and went and listened to a great school band. While we were at breakfast they managed to put a picnic table with attached stools in front of the car. One of the Virgin members of their team was extremely nervous when we came near - it was really very funny so we took advantage of that situation. Some of the locals wanted a photo of his team - he sat in the car with the window down for the photo and wouldn't get out!

As we headed out of town we collected our cupcakes for the day.

lunch was at Jamestown at a school. They had prepared a great lunch for us.

As we headed out for the afternoon we had to wait as someone had paid to have us wait.

The track we went on was very rough, resulting in another tyre being wrecked. With some help we changed the tyre and were almost done when he NRMA bus came to a halt. The 7 passangers piled out and proceeded to show us their spud gun using oranges. What an awesome machine shooting oranges 500m.

Along the track was a boy sitting at the gate in a wheelchair so we stopped and gave hime some things.

It was quite late when we pulled into Woomera a town of 450.

At tea we squared things up with the cricketers....what a funny day. They did bring us a peace offering of chocolate cake - unfortunately for them it tasted like it had had a dusting of petrol so we thought they were trying to sabotage us again.

We stayed in a school hall with many snoring people.