10/5/2022 – Tuesday – 558km

We departed at 13.22pm after lunch & headed off towards Melrose in South Australia, the annual Kimberley Karavan Owner Group get together. After refuelling in Yass we turned off the main highway to Bowning & Binalong, then Harden, Temora & Griffith. The driving was very nice through the rural farming areas with an overcast sky. 

At a small locality called Kamarah on the Burley Griffin Way, before Griffith, Tereza & I got the fright of our lives, a small car drove from a side road onto our lane of the highway & stopped when they saw us. In our lane. We were travelling at around 100km/hr. I stamped on the brakes, locked the caravan wheels up & there was the squealing of burning tyres & smoke everywhere as I tried to avoid a collision. Luckily, the driver was smart enough to reverse & I managed to just miss the front of the car as I went past. Otherwise we would have been straight into the driver’s door of the car, it was that close. The adrenaline rush caused our hearts to beat a lot faster for a long time afterwards, it certainly shook us up. The rest of the drive to Griffith was uneventful & we stopped for a meal in Griffith before continuing to Hay in the dark & stopping overnight about 20km west of Hay at the Pevensey Rest Area with about 6 trucks & 4 other caravans.