After our one day at Melrose, we then headed into Adelaide and spent 4 nights relaxing and recovering from the long stint across from WA. We also used the time back in Adelaide to make a number of repairs to the van, the main one being the replacement of the electrics lead that I’d managed to crush and temporarily fix back in Kununurra. I noticed on leaving Cape Le Grand that our indicators on the van were playing up, so my temporary wiring obviously needed a proper repair job. Which we had done at an auto electrician near the van park we were staying at.
Unfortunately, this repair led to the need for another repair which thankfully we were able to get done and for a lot less expense than might have been required had we not been so lucky. Now, my next sentence explaining the repairs I needed will immediately chill the spines of any cyclists out there as they will know straight away what happened. Roofbar mounted bike rack and a carport. I’ve heard many horror stories over the years about roof mounted bikes and low clearances and have always been so vigilant, even on this trip and checking before driving through petrol stations and under any bridges. It just took one tiny lapse of concentration, having to move the car at the auto electricians to allow another car to get past I went to drive into a parking space under a carport at the side of the workshop. We weren’t moving very fast and as soon as I heard the sound I realised immediately what I’d done and stopped and reversed. As I’ve said though, we were really lucky. I broke the leg of one of the roof bars and put a very minor scratch on the roof and the total cost to fix the roof bars was $41.