Day 3 – 26/7/09
Cervantes to Geraldton
Woke at about 9 after freezing our balls off in Eugene’s tent or Wendy house as Finto has dubbed it. Eugene got up about 12, no doubt afraid to be seen in public with that freakish mop of red hair (couldn’t blame him). He swears blind he was in a Timotei advert when he was 16. Packed up the gear said goodbye to the German’s daughter on the banks of the river Rhine and hit the road.
Our first stop was just up the road at Molah hill. Class spot for photos, if we bothered to charge the camera! Still it’s one less photo with that weird man Steve in it. Didn’t spend much time here, jumped back in the cars and headed for Geraldton. Passed the ‘leaning tree’, it looked bent to us. Stopped in a nice wee town called Dongara for a few peanut butter and jelly sambo’s (as they say in the states). The ground over here is a lot harder than muddy fields back home so we bought a badly needed hammer for banging in the tent pegs.
Arrived at the Belair Campsite at about 3 o’clock ($44 for 5 in a tent and 1 car). We managed to sneak the Tercel in as well. It looked well at home among the $200,000 Winnebago’s. We set up camp and headed into Geraldton town, to the Freemason’s bar. No such thing as a Sunday session in Freemason’s, nearly tripped on a tumbleweed on the way to the bar! Efforts to chat to the barmaid were abruptly put to an end by the angry old manager. So back to the campsite, food in the bellies, long overdue shower and sat down to watch Mission: Impossible 3 on a dodgy black and white TV in the games room, Tom Cruise what a legend!!! (wasn’t as good as his performance in Gladiator tho)
Distance travelled: 240km (625km)
Keeping up with the saga in Qatar – good stuff!!
See what can happen when 4 Greaneys meet!
On account of his flatulence problem….I take my hat off to any man who stays in a tent with Uge!!!! He was so bad in College, he went to see the Doctor about his chronic wind problems…True story!
Stevie G…eugene uncle here
Thats not a wind problem but a unique darwinian evolutionary development. The doctor story was a decoy. Its in the family gene pool and as other tribes fall away as a result of climate change and lack of fuel, the greaneys will be able to power their own worlds with the new wind gene. “Eugene” is actually a project code name for newgene. Its survival of the fittest…
Geno-u told me is was a pantene add!!?? lads nice to see ye’v travelled such a distance but we actually rekon we’ll be seeing ye in Darwin at da rate of things!!!! oh and PS-stop forgetting to charge da camrea-you’d swear ye didnt have adaptors to charge them!!!! oh sorry thats actually us that cant charge a camera or anything for that matter if we wanna watch tv at the same time!!!!! well wear-keep going upwards in the world dudes!!!
Lovin the commentary,very witty, so whoever’s responsible congratulations!! Just wonderin who was chattin 2 the barmaid when the angry man appeared?? Was it Nigel by any chance? Back in Ireland he’s a legend with the ladies….
nigel is a lgend with the ladies….anika are you sure you have theright nigel?!?!
Loving the unique style of tourist guidebook you’ve got going on lads – keep it up!
the ladyboys. class stuff lads.