After saying farewell to our neighbour, who was also leaving the Head of the Bight his journey would take him was whilst our destination is Ceduna in South Australia. Here we are hoping and really looking forward to meeting our friends Bob and Jackie, from Milton NSW they have been travelling west towards us!!
We turned right on to the Eyre Highway, we had approximately 300 kms to travel. For about thirty kilometres the highway was very quiet with not much happening, until, we spotted a road train in our rear view camera he was approaching us at some speed! The road ahead was clear so he overtook us but, before he was half way at our side he started to indicate and was going to cut us off!! Helen immediately reached for the 2 way to tell the driver not to cut in just yet!! it was a bit hair raising.
We had only travelled for another 2 or 3 minutes when coming towards us was police "paddy wagon" we thought it was strange, but then, a black sedan type car followed and Helen noticed it had WA plates on it. He was driving at some speed. He was going off the road and when we looked at our rear view camera he had turned very quickly and started to follow us. We could see he was wanting to pass and did, but once again he nearly cut us up....we soon realised this wasn't going to be good as we spied another police vehicle heading on our side of the road and the black car was in his sights, the police officer decided to swerve his vehicle sideways as to try and stop the black car! Only for a second the black car stopped and somehow went around the police vehicle and there we were looking face to face with the police office who had quite a task to turn round and give chase......soon after the other police vehicle overtook us and gave chase too. Richard grabbed the two way and told the police to get the "bas&&rd" this all happened hundreds of kilometres from anywhere.
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| Police apprehending the young couple |
We regained our composure and continued along the highway, hoping we may see the police catch this maniac. It was at least 70 kms later we heard from one of the Nomads coming towards us "Woodies there are police and Federal Police sorting out a car that has crashed into a tree" another 10km further we came upon the scene. Richard pulled over and ran back to talk to the officers.... The young man was in the back of the paddy wagon shouting out. Richard banged on the side and told him "You nearly killed me" the reply was "sorry sir", it seems this young man and his partner, who we hadn't even spotted in the car, have been known to them since crossing from WA into SA all the roadhouses (servos, fuel) had been told not to sell them any fuel, as they wouldn't pay anyway! They were high on drugs etc...the police wanted a statement from us and would visit us tonight. Thank goodness we are here to tell the story.
Our journey became quite uneventful and we tootled along and arrived at our destination, Shelley Beach Caravan Park, all we had to do was walk over a sand dune and there
was the sea! We had just settled in when we had a visit from Bob and Jackie, there were hugs all round it was fantastic to see them, but, unfortunately they were on the caravan park in town, we had tried to book there but no room for a large caravan. We soon organised to see them the next day and we intend to eat out together but only one place in town, the Hotel/Motel.
Later this evening the police officer found our caravan and asked Richard to read and sign the report/statement of the incident that we had witnessed. He was a very nice young man who chatted with us and told us of the various situations he had to deal with.
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| The very long jetty, Helen, Jackie and Bob at Ceduna |
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| Gypsom Silo |
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| Our pitch at Shelley Beach, Ceduna |
Our time in Ceduna was just what we needed spending quality time with Bob and Jackie and we did go out for dinner at the motel, which was OK and then on Sunday we had lunch for $12 which was even better!!
We had to say farewell as Bob and Jackie were on their way west and we had our eyes set on the Eyre Peninsular, SA.
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