Day 15 – Manning Gorge – Silent Grove (Bell Gorge) 23/7/18

We left later than usual this morning at 9am, as we only have a small drive today to get to Silent Grove approx 130km. Dad made Pan fried toast for breakfast this morning which has quickly become a favourite breakfast food for all of us on this trip – seriously considering selling my toaster LOL.

We were planning to call in and see Galvins Gorge and Adcock Gorge, we saw Adcock last time but it wasn’t all that special so we were thinking of missing it and just seeing Galvin’s but as we were packing up our neighbour mentioned that they did them yesterday and Galvins is crap and Adcock is the one to see so we changed our plans and decided to go with Adcock instead this time around.

We turned into Adcock Gorge track and i quickly remembered that this was the track where we actually unhitched the trailer last time as it looked a bit too intense for the trailer as well but after we got through we realised we would have been OK with the trailer, I passed on message to Mum and Dad that although it looks a bit wary it will be OK to keep going through, not long after I said that Dad stopped mid track and got out of the car, he came over and said that there are some big rocks which he will bottom out on and just doesn’t want to bother and risk breaking anything so he is going to reverse out a bit and park up on side of the track and we can walk in, all good.

We backed up a bit to let him move the car and trailer to where he wanted to park it up – the side of the track has a dry gully area which drops off from the track and some trees so dad decided he would park it up along side that under the trees.

Mum was watching the back of the trailer to make sure that it didn’t hit the trees and no one thought about the car so the back wheel accidentally dropped into the gully and the whole car got tipped up, scared the shit out of us all but dad put the foot down and it was able to move forward and go back down onto all 4 wheels again. After that we decided to call it quits on seeing Adcock so we headed off toward Silent Grove again.

We arrived at Silent Grove at 1.30pm and found a beautiful large shady site to call home for a few days. We were warned that the solar hot water runs out fairly early on and is once again gravity fed so low pressure, we have worked out that if you don’t have a shower by about 3pm in the afternoon you are guaranteed to have a cold one.

We had a lazy afternoon and will go down and see Bell Gorge tomorrow morning.

Mum told us that their stereo is working again, just turned on and is working perfectly normal again so who knows what’s going on there

Damage to date: 2x flat tyres, 2x reflectors missing, 2x batteries in cars gone flat, 1x freezer, 1x rock dent to intercooler guard, 2x handheld radios, 1x stuck kitchen, 1x solar cable lead, 1x stereo stopped working temporarily but started again, 1x Anderson plug broken, 2x front Mcpherson Struts buggered.  Overall, not too bad – and most importantly we are all safe and well so that’s all that matters.