Whats that Skip?

After leaving Camooweal 125 Km from Mt Isa two Kangaroos decided to commit suicide on my front end. I think I have driven close to 40,000km with a video camera but this is the first time I have hit or been hit by anything. The 2nd one is very small and I guess young. I do feel bad :(

I t was a bad end to a good day. I left Alice Spring and had some success with one of my main objectives. There wasn't anything really open in Camooweal so I stupidly pressed on the 190km to Mt Isa. This was the first time I had driven in the entire trip after dusk and it was also the first Kangaroos I had seen in the entire drive. As the guys from 'Panel Repairs' said "That's 1 from 1- Awesome!" but it may even be 2 from 1 after reviewing the video. The car is mechanically alright. No structural damage but both right hand side head lights are smashed and the front driver door wouldn't open at first. This was simply due to the front quarter panel being pushed back preventing it from opening. I went back but only saw one dead Kangaroo - the larger one, amid the ruins of the Falcons front end. Panel repairs got me driving again in 15 minutes free of charge which I really appreciate.

Before

Driving straight at the Sun

No penguins... I may have been a season and 12 hrs late as it is autumn and they go back to their burrows at night so off to Mt Gambier which is really nice. I've always wanted to at least pass through Mt Gambier but wish their coffee and Bacon & Egg shops opened up earlier.

The wind has been almost constantly off the ocean with a really light intermittent drizzle. Its been beautiful green dairy beef country turning into huge pine forests, dairy beef country up to about Robe SA. I am sure it can switch back to drought land very fast though.
What I thought would be a quite boring section turned out to be uniquely beautiful -  along the edge of the Coorong National Park.
I think I spent almost all day with the sun in the windscreen which was quite hot so I opted to find a motel in Port Wakefield and found a 2 bedroom house for $140 a night. I'm happy

Tomorrow is going to be another day driving north.

Time for a new drive!

Currently in Port MacDonnell SA after leaving Bootsies house in Geelong via Lorne, Colac and Portland. Beautiful coast. No WIFI and only low bars on the phone... cant have everything :)

And I just realised I have about 70km of fuel and the nearest non-dodgy service station is in Mt Gambier so will see if I can see some fairy penguins at Cape Northumberland then north to refuel.