The three Doctor's Who finally reported in this Sunday morning by Satphone after a tense wait at blog central in Adelaide. The short version is they successfully completed the first leg of their voyage across the South Australian outback, arriving late and somewhat exhausted in Arkaroola last night at about 9:00 pm after an eventful day.
Back at the start line, there were plenty of friends and family to see Bash Car 89 (the 'Tardis') off the start grid. It was a beautiful morning, warm, clear and everyone was wound up with the colour of the cars and costumes and the excitement of the moment. Car 89 cleared the starting gate at about 9:30 am, attended by dutiful 'Darleks' in tow under the watchful eye of Dr Who (Chris) with Dr Who (Russell) at the helm and Dr Who (Dallas) navigating.
A link to all the photos will be posted shortly and a video clip will be on Youtube later today.
On the road. Dr Who (Russell) reports the first stop was Mallala for a tank top up. Shortly after that there was a minor mishap when the height flag on the bow came adrift. (An omen). They missed going through Clare as the route through Armagh joins in Clare to the North of town, and this came as a disappointment to our hero's who hold Clare as their Xanadu of red-wine.
15km North of Orroroo they all got quite a fright when a rear axle snapped. The 'Tardis' threw quite a 'wobbly' and fish-tailed down the road at 100km/h before coming off the road backwards. In Dr Who parlance, the 'Tardis' hit unexpected turblence when the integrated ferric motion modulator experienced molecular separation causing the navigation system to lose lock in the 2nd dimension (only, fortunately). Three Dr's Who uttered explicatives not previously heard on the TV Series.
The support crew caught up with the Drs about 30 minutes later and a spare motion modulator (axle) was fitted. (Good thing they had a spare or it would have all been over there and then).
Much to their displeasure, the delay meant they missed out on lunch (Ye Gods, what these guys have to put up with).
During the afternoon Dr Who (Dallas) lost his intergallactic communications device (mobile phone) but the telepathic communication system continued to work well. (The other Dr's Who, knew his mood was not good). To everyones delight, said phone reappeared mysteriously wedged in a crevasse which turn out to be Dallas's ass. He had been sitting on the thing all the time. Shame someone didn't ring him up.
Midst the confusion of the moment, the 'Tardis' (Bash Car 89) entered into a time and space mix with the fleet of Victorian Bash Cars and the navigation system (2nd dimension again) was thrown into disarray. Tracks were followed that lead to locked gates, fraudulent Bash Cars from across the border laid smoke-screens of dust and the navigator was in a tizz trying to find the way to Arkaroola and a cold beer.
As the sun went down on our intrepid hero's, they rounded off the day finally on the right track but several hours behind. Amid turbulent weather, threatening rain, lots of lightning and thunder they arrived at the Ark around 9:00 pm and just in time for the last of the evening meal. The tent and swags were unpacked and they were finally able to collapse by about mid-night.
In true Dr Who fashion Russell, Chris and Dallas fought their way through thick and thin and finally won through at the end of the day to a heroic arrival to claim yet another drama filled stanza would work out for the best.
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