Nice early start today for a big drive. We did not expect to get all the way to Exmouth, but were certainly not expecting what happened about 120 km's out from Tom Price. The rear windscreen in the landcruiser suddenly exploded and shattered into thousands of pieces. Initially we both thought it was a tyre blowout until John looked in the rear vision mirror. All very strange as the obvious cause would be a stone thrown up against the front of the caravan which then bounced onto the window. However the caravan was unmarked so this seems unlikely especially since we were travelling on a sealed road at the time.
Anyway, we knocked out as much glass as possible, it was all over the gear in the back of the car. Then we had a choice; return to Tom Price or continue on. We decided on the latter as the car was fine to drive without a rear windscreen and the caravan provided a wind shield anyway. This occurred on a Saturday so we knew it would be 2 days before we could even start to get it fixed and anyway we had no phone coverage and wouldn't have for another 500 km's.
So we continued on through the hilly arid countryside until we reached a convenient rest area in the mid afternoon where we could free camp for the night. John managed to fix up a piece of plastic sheeting to keep out any dew and we stayed hitched up for the night for a quick getaway in the morning.
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| No rear windscreen |
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