As we were worried about getting towed out of the site on Sunday morning early to leave in time to arrive in Shoalhaven Heads to watch the league grand final, we ended up leaving on Saturday. Alot of people had the same idea and people were trying to flag down tractors to get towed out.
Michael and Mitch went for a walk and found a tractor down the muddy street and we were lucky enough to be the first in our street to get towed out. The mud was terrible and people were filming us getting pulled out as our van was one of the biggest there. We survived and got towed out but we took alot of mud with us under the car and caravan.
We had plans to stay in Wagga at a caravan park for the night so we opened the taps on our 180 litre water tanks underneath the van and emptied the tanks as we didn't need it.
On the way to Wagga we got diverted due to the floods which put another 100 klms onto the trip. There is so much water on the sides of the roads and in paddocks.
We arrived in Wagga at the caravan park to find out that it was full, so we kept driving. We then arrived in Gundagai to find out that both the caravan parks are located between the river and creek and both had been cut off due to the floods.
Just outside Gundagai we filled up with petrol and then visited "The Dog On The Tuckerbox" statue.
It was starting to get late and we had no idea where we were going to stay.
After doing abit on research on Wiki camps we found a little pub called The Beehive Hotel. They let you park your caravan out the front for free. So we went straight there and went and had a drink in the pub to pay for our parking spot.
As we had dumped all of our water, we didn't have any water for showers and we had mud all over clothes. We looked a treat but we had heaps of fun at the ute muster.
Mitch cooked the BBQ that night standing on the side of the road outside the pub.
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