Our Carnarvon pack-up was smooth and we started heading back to Roma. There was no real plan. We had lunch at Injune, at the same picnic spot we'd visited in 2020. (I had Nick shake hands again with the miner)!A little further along was Gunnewin, so we stopped to have a look around there. We re-fuelled at Roma but weren't ready to return home at that point, so decided we'd go to Mitchell - and soak in the mineral baths after all our walking.
I'd not long booked a site at Mitchell when the plan hit a huge bump. As did we.
Nick pulled over when it was safe. By then we thought the trailer might have a flat tyre but once stopped Nick could see the issue. Sadly the Spacevan's spare tyre had worked free of it's drawbar mounting and then dropped onto the road. The bump we felt and heard was trailer running over the tyre. We were both quite shocked to see the side panel damage. We circled back to look for the tyre but couldn't spot it in the long grass along the roadside - and weren't really sure where it had dropped onto the road. We stopped again, so I could rescue a tortoise - and then we headed to Mitchell.
Once checked in and set up (on the same site as our first trip in the Spacevan), I used the free wifi near reception to lodge an insurance claim via the app. Neither of us felt like soaking in the mineral baths and we had a fairly early night.
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