Sunday, 20 February 2022

Locked-in at Yunta!

We re-fuelled before leaving Broken Hill.  Yes, even before spotting the no fuel for 200km sign!

It was about two hours to Yunta, a very small highway town with a several petrol stations.  

We quickly spotted the park and public toilets.  I was so keen to go that I didn't register the lack of handle inside - till it was to time to get out and I couldn't. 

The vacant/engaged indicator jammed in the locked position - and I called out to Nick for help. He then worked with a screwdriver to free me from the cubicle!

There were some tourist info signs in the picnic shelter and a list of fruit which shouldn't be brought into South Australia.  

We didn't have any fresh fruit or vegies with us but did have dates, which were on the list.  We made a point of eating them before arriving at the quarantine station 40km down the road (which was over 200km from the NSW/SA state border via the Barrier Highway).

The quarantine officer didn't seem concerned by our admission of eating the dates and wasn't interested in keeping the seeds.  He did get Nick to open our Engel though, to verify there was no fresh produce on board.

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