The Road Trip (pt 2)

We reversed from the driveway at 6am. Biancas new second hand toyota rally ute was packed up pretty high and was covered in ropes and tarp. It was still dark, yet the traffic of Cairns seemed to be getting ready for a very busy day.

If anyone has ever driven from QLD to the NT, they will know that the rest of this story is quite a boring one but there are a few things that i would like to share with you.

During our first leg, which happend to be from Cairns to Cloncurry (1200km) Bianca wouldn't stop with the persistant "I still can't belive we haven't seen a kangaroo yet" comments. I kept telling her to stop mentioning the damn kangaroos or we would create a kangaroo magnet. It was dark when we were about ten kms out of Cloncurry, i was driving and it was at this point i let down my 'thought bubble' barrier and started thinking 2 things to myself:

"It is very strange that we are yet to see a Kangaroo..."
and
"Wouldn't it suck if we hit a roo now..."

You all know what happened next but the sadness of it was that the Roo was no more than 1 metre away from the Cloncurry entrance gates. If we had made it through the entrance gate the lights and lack of flora would have guaranteed no roos jumping up and getting blended by the engine.

As you can imagine Bianca was distraught - fearing her new beloved car was destroyed beyond repair. I felt like like a marsupial killer and am still having repeats of the bone crunching sounds that just didn't seem to been shaken from my brain.

This killing spree continued along the Barkley Highway. Although the Roo was a one off event, i am a serial killer of birds and a locust mass murderer (these were so gross - it looked like it was raining and the car turned from blue to a lovely green).

So we obviously arrived home in one piece, and the car somehow managed. And that ladies and gentlemen concludes the road trip debrief...