Whoops!

Our first real-time recovery experience ...

We enjoyed Yengo National Park and the surrounding area so much that we returned the next day for more exploring.

Lured by the promise of a geocache, we had driven down a very wet track (fortunately) without issue. After finding the cache we spotted a dryer track for the return trip, thinking it would be better than our original route. However the track edge gave way very soon after we turned on to it, so it didn't turn out to be better at all! In fact, it was all a bit scary as Vaughan and I were quite high on our side - and even when the angle wasn't so steep, Vaughan undid his belt to get out and promptly slid into the downside door!

Fortunately Nick had packed all the recovery gear, so we were able to winch out fairly easily. Vaughan operated the winch control while Nick wound out the cable - and then Nick took over the control while I steered Elmer and Vaughan became our camera-person. We watched the "footage" (complete with Vaughan's commentary) when home again - he did fine work!

After all that excitement, we checked out a camping area and may well return to stay there. I initially thought the access to it was down the very wet/soggy track and had wondered how we would get the trailer down but of course, it had a proper track in very good repair - der!