Day 27: Townsville

Oly lured me down the magpie road again.

Henry was being moved to B & J Autos, the only VW specialist in Townsville, where he would hopefully be revived. It was kind of sad looking in him, stripped of our necessities. He was very messy too and we didn't have time to tidy him up. Since he broke down the only times we have been in him we have grabbed what we needed and locked him up.

Back to the magpie. Oly said we would be fine and I let him go ahead of me. As we approached the stretch we saw the magpie position itself on top of a lamp post ready to swoop. I panicked and started peddling faster and so did Oly, all the time he was looking behind which made him not go as fast as he could have and as a result slowed me down. I didn't' want to overtake as I figured safety in numbers. Oly started shouting, "it's flying after us!" I started squealing... Oly is STILL looking behind! We passed some road workers who said "G'day" and all I could manage was "there's a bird chasing us" as we flew past on our bikes. (no pun intended)

We bought some delicious sausages from a butcher on the way home and eagerly returned to the camp site, salivating. I set up our gas burner and got out our plates and corn wraps. It was when I went to chop up some onions I realised that we had no utensils or cutlery... it's really hard cooking with plastic knives.

Em