What can go wrong but it's an adventure.....Dan keep smiling...we will get through this....

Not all our trips go to plan and this day we got a little bogged in Beachport Conservation Park.  Our second sand bog since we have started my Lighthouse quest. Once again I was all ready to provide suggestions of how we could get out of the situation...always looks so easy on TV shows.  Eventually rang the RAA who were unforgiving of us not being prepared.  When you are in a situation like this you aways call the Publican.  A quick call to the Beachport Pub to see if a local farmer wanted to earn some money and assist us and immediately the Publican's son was out to help.  Such a lovely thought and he appeared to know what he was doing with his 4wd ute.  30 minutes later who was in more trouble than us!  

Next call was to the SES who were located in Victoria doing some training ops which turned out to be us!! 4 men and one tough lady along with 2 mega tough long based Nissan Troupe and 20 minutes later they had our rescuer out and another 15 minutes later we were out...No charge and they seemed happy to be called out to do real rescuing rather than pretending to rescue people.  Anyway we really appreciated the fact that our trip to the Beachport Conservation Park had ended 200 metres into the real sand and two hours later we were nursing our pride.  That night we went to the Beachport Pub for tea and bought up in appreciation of the local lad trying to assist us.

We learnt a few things on this day.  Make sure your vehicle is suitable for real 4wd.  Our vehicle had a very low under carriage clearance and if we were serious about 4wdriving we need to upgrade our car.

Still it was an adventure and we learn more about working together under pressure the more we move out of our safe little suburban life and out in to our amazing country.  Australia is a pretty amazing place with so much to see in our backyard.