We had a late start this morning as our next stop would beWalvis Bay. We stopped briefly at Solitaire and viewed some of the old cars scrap cars the were lying around the entrance.
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| The entrance to Solitaire with its display of scrap cars |
We no sooner had left and dissaster struck. Des had gone through one of the dips which are frequent along that road probably a little on the fast side and the sudden dip tore something loose on the chassis. It was as if the chassis had bent backwards.
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| A local road repair fellow looks on as Des jacks the camper |
We nevertheless jacked the trailer up at the back and managed to tie the trailer forward so as to keep the mudguards from touching the wheel. Our journey then became very slow. Every couple of kilometres we had to stop and tension up the ropes as there seemed to be stretch on our ropes. This continued all afternoon with us making very slow progress. At dark we contemplated pulling off and sleeping for the night but it was so open, proper dessert, so we just continued and eventually arrived at Walvis Bay at 9pm that night. We booked camp site at the Lagoon Challets. We were however still in good spirits, so we had our evening meal at midnight.
