Firstly - how good is self timer. For a solo traveller, such as myself, sometimes you find yourself travelling through Northern WA near exmouth by yourself and not a single other car driving past you for ages. SO, whilst the sun was rising, the flies were literally swarming me and a cyclone was about to come through - I decided to stop in the middle of the red dust road in my little hired orange Suzuki on the way to Coral Bay from Exmouth. With my camera propped on its camera bag, I managed to snag this whilst walking back to the camera to see if I actually turned the timer on - photographer problems. But it worked hey - those colours.
First things first - I am six foot two.. so how come every time I hire a car I get the smallest one?
Fast forward 8-9 hours after this photo was taken, and I am on the road back from a day of diving with Whale Sharks in Coral Bay to my little motel and pub meal in Exmouth. Firstly.. there is only about 45 min left on sunshine for the day.. and then its pitch black. This car, well, it doesn’t have the strongest of lights and animals come out to play at night. Secondly, my phone has died, won’t charge and the radio has gone bust. Thirdly, and this is when the dead phone starts to scare me more, there is a cyclone up ahead that I am blissfully unaware of (until I am told when I get back to exmouth). So here I am driving in the pitch black, trying to keep myself entertained by singing (new Beyonce plzzzzz) and it starts pouring with rain. The speed limit I believe is 110km/ph., but I am driving about 50km/ph. So this 2 hour drive is about to get reaaaal long. The wind is going crazy, the windscreen whippers are barely keeping up and all I can think about is “I’m burnt from the boat, and I want a burger” - prioritise right?
Eventually I make it to Exmouth, and being the only orange Suzuki in town, when I proceed to tell the owner at the pub where I drove from, she is shocked and shows me the weather report and yes I indeed did drive right through a cyclone and lived to tell the story. So I got that burger, I drank my beer and thought - what a hell of an awesome day.
