One hilarious story from the weekend wasn’t mine to tell but I’m going to share it anyway! One of my friends drove up to Rainbow Beach by himself on Saturday morning… Armed with his trusted GPS Guidance ‘thingy’… Following its every instruction, he ended up following the path less travelled… As in NOT the sealed highways and main roads the rest of us took…He travelled through a number of small towns and eventually was instructed to turn on to a dirt track. The instruction was followed by a note that the track should only be used by experienced 4WD owners in the wet season. He was driving a new Commodore… Oh and did I mention it was raining the past few days and the night before?

Apparently the track wasn’t too bad initially.. But then the car started bottoming out a lot while driving through the deep 4WD ruts… The rain had also left a lot of areas of lose mud which meant that he had to keep the throttle open powering through it, chewing up path for fear for getting stuck…

Apparently he passed a group of 4WD owners on the track… who, impressed by his determination to get through the obvious unsuitable conditions for his car, cheered him on as though it was a Aussie Battler!! Some passing trail bike riders gave him a applauding wave as well…

At one point he said he was contemplating turning back, although there was apparently no easy way to turn around, and he’d gotten quite some distance already… However he zoomed out on his GPS map to find that the beach wasn’t too far away, apparently ONLY 19 klms… Hahaha!

End result was a two toned car – top half black, bottom half red… a thick layer of red clay decorating the wheel arches! But apparently he made better time than the rest of us? It would seem that when you tell a GPS Unit to find the shortest or fastest route it really does! Hahahaha…

I’ll upload photos of the car soon!