Day 33

Day 33 Point Sampson

Today was an early start, Trude had a doctors appointment at 7am in Karratha so we got up at 6am, Dawn has broken and all that. Trude had a small problem since Exmouth. In Exmouth we had her

Drill Bit Maureen

How big's the pipe

cooling system repaired and a new temperature gauge installed. Both items were working well but all of a sudden she was running rough when running on petrol, missing on one cylinder, but smooth as with gas. We asked a company on Karratha, Just Automotive Repairs, if they could have a look, it was something that had happened during the previous work but had shown up a day or so afterwards. It had not been a real problem as we were running on gas at the moment but we might not have that later on, so I wanted it looked at. Anyway they said they would have a look at her if I brought her in at 7 am and they would do an investigation. Well, we duly arrived on time and the mechanic had a quick look whilst I went through the background and ran the motor, he was fairly

Red Dog

Packaging plant and flare

sure it was an injector cable as there was one that had cooling fluid on it and looked a little corroded, so we left him to it and wandered down the road for a coffee.

The café was a bit quirky and looked like someone had a second hand furniture shop and wanted to run a café as the furniture was all old and aged. The coffee was lovely and we waited the hour to go back, which we did. We went back just as he drove Trude back in the yard. He said he just wanted to check the bearings. We went in and he came in 10 minutes later. It was all running like a clock again, it was not

Storage

Port Authority

the injector cable but he cleaned it anyway and coated so it wont get any worse, it was one of the injector cable plugs for cylinder 1. In the repair work done before they must have unplugged it and the plastic clip broke and it was not holding together. He had taped it up and showed me where it was in case it happened again. The bearings were fine, just tyre noise – Lyle all looks good so far and people agree with you, mind you I have found a solution to the noise, put 2 ton of caravan on the hitch, no problems.

From here we went back over Burrup Peninsular to get the pictures again that are on Maureen’s

Roebourne from Mt Welcome

Roebourne

phone, so have a look. We also drove through Roebourne and Whickham. Roebourne is a small town that really shows the face of some of the problems they have here, few shops have windows and those that do have heavy mesh on them. There is some growth work going on, but not sure what it is. We went up Mount Welcome and the view is just spectacular. Whickham is just an accommodation town for the loading

Roebourne

Yacht Club

facilities going on behind it. We drove down to the back beach which has a launching ramp and the road takes you past the train lines and where they are constructing a new loading facility. There is a lovely beach there and a Yacht Club there as well.

Back at camp we had a breather and lunch and then we went to drinks with the locals. There is some

Back Beach

Construction

bench seats opposite us and every day they gather there in an open house arrangement and we joined them tonight. They are a happy group, some new today, others leaving soon etc so we swapped stories and arranged to meet at 4 tomorrow for gambling night, game of left, right or centre. I will report back on rules tomorrow.

Construction

Train

Maureen with train

Maureen with truck

The crew from Gamblers Anonymous