We travelled over 2000km before we met up with another Moke!
We stopped for one very chilly but fine night at Glen Innes and there was a Moke parked at a cabin in the caravan park. It was a “bits & pieces” car with identifiable parts covering a range of years. The young owners were on their way round Australia in so we wish them good luck. On that frosty morning the ignition switch was frozen and everything had a coating of frost as they are travelling with just a bikini roof and no side-screens, just lots of layers of clothing.
From there we travelled through Tenterfield and over the Dividing Range to Casino to find another Moke belonging to a friend at the Casino Motorhome Village needing some help with brake repairs. Two and a half weeks later it was finally fixed after a saga of wrong parts supplied and new problems to be solved.
Casino Village was a great place to stay with very good facilities and fine weather almost every day. Plenty of birdlife and rabbits in the camp area. We spent the time between car repairs relaxing and doing some local sightseeing and eating good country food at the local hotels and tourist sites such as New Italy which was settled in 1880 by Italian immigrants rescued from a disastrous settlement scam north of New Guinea.
Yesterday we moved north to Ipswich near Brisbane so we’ve made it into Queensland. As we left Casino we set the GPS for Ipswich but it wanted to send us through the twisty hill roads we’d already explored (in the Moke) so we took the easy route which confused the GPS completely. It then instructed us to “Proceed 60,000km”- hmmm, always knew that shortcuts were the longest route. Someone suggested it was trying to send us to Ipswich, England!
The bus has a name - BERTHA - pics on our next blog!
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