THE WALLABY TRACK WITH LIONEL MUSSELL

Somewhere along the track to Far North Queensland , my windscreen was hit by a stone in the bottom left corner . Each day , the two cracks that it started crept further and further across the windscreen .

My insurance coverage allows one replacement windscreen a year – I ' ve had two before this one two years apart so I contacted the windscreen people in Mareeba once I was settled at Walkamin .

Because I ' d had bad experiences with windscreen sizes before , I carefully measured the height of my screen and told the lady at the windscreen place the measurement .

The boys came out with a screen a few days later , but it was raining so they said they ' d come back another day . Murphy was hiding somewhere but I thought I heard him chuckling . He chuckled some more when they came back a few days later and found that the new screen was the right height but the wrong width !

I made the mistake of telling them that I was in no hurry as I was

here for at least two months , so they took their time . Finally , they came with the right screen and had it changed over very quickly .

Quite a bit has happened to improve the Walkamin Van Park since I was here last year , including lots of flowers and shrubs . Mark ' s a skilled gardener and his handiwork shows ! There was quite a lot of bindi eye weed and Mark ' s spraying has almost eliminated them .

They have installed an irrigation system and a huge new sign at the entrance to the park leaves no doubt which van park you have reached . The cackle of chickens in a new chicken pen adds to the rustic ambience of the park and the eggs are shared among vanners .

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