All is not good on The Road Trip!!

Coffin Bay Oysters

Slow Track into remote beach campsite

Beautiful campsite at Lincoln National Park

Day 25

Packed up and headed to IT repairer. The LCD is buggered!! Only option is to phone DELL and find out what to do. In the meantime we buy a new camping table as our old one is just about ready to pack it in. While I am on the phone... for about an hour, Alan decides to go to a caravan shop to see if we can fix our awning so that it is not so noisy in the ever present wind in this part of the country (they always have camp spots with beautiful views of the ocean but are as windy as hell and doesn’t matter which direction the wind is coming from!!) He meets a guy who makes canvass awnings and he is just back from hols. And doesn’t have any work on at the moment so agrees to make us a new awning out of canvas and it will only take a couple of days. Finally get on to a person at Dell!! And after going through the check list they agree to replace the LCD.....but I need an address for them to send it to with a repairer!!! I don’t have an address I tell him!! To cut a long story short the friendly IT repairer that I been to earlier in the day agreed to be my address. Not sure how Dell are going to do all this (are they going to send a little man with an LCD...pink of course...from Malaysia?????) Oh well, that’s their problem!!We also arrange for Sarah to send our mail to the Port Lincoln post office and should be there when we get back Wed. Or Thurs. On top of all this Al gets his glasses fixed and sees a doctor about a boil which has developed on a strategic body area. All the things we have achieved in one day is amazing!! We are exhausted but decide to head off to Lincoln National Park about ½ hour away for a couple of days armed with a key for a remote place called memory cove which we have heard is just lovely(we must also return the key Wed. Or Thurs morning). Things are falling into place... we hope!! Nat. Park maps are a bit unreliable but we decide to go down a trail to find a lovely remote camp spot. 45 minutes and 3 km later!!! We find a lovely little secluded spot right on the beach. I am hopeful that we can’t be struck down with any more bad luck and with no awning we cross our fingers and settle down for a nice cold drink watching the sun set over the ocean. It is serene and peaceful and the wind does not spring up that night.