Police Rescue

At our first stop on the Nullarbor we thought we were in the middle of nowhere so were surprised when a Police Divvy Van turned up around 5pm. They came to chat then went on their way. About 10ish, when we were heading to bed, we hear a 'Hello mate'. We absolutely packed ourselves as we were completely in the middle of nowhere and had heard no cars and it was pitch black. Daniel went to investigate then heard 'Hey Katta, its the coppers from earlier', Daniel laughed then asked if they were bogged, 'Yep, badly, we need a hand'. After unhooking the van, the cops squeezed in (one had to sit in a car seat) and they headed to the bogged van (it was actually only about 1km away so they had been trying to get themselves out for hours. They had burnt the winch out and had buried their spare wheel as a winching point (by hand as they didn't have a shovel), then they proceeded to dig the car deeper and deeper into the sand dunes whilst trying to get out. The sand was up to the bottom of the doors! Of course Daniel managed to get them out (with a lot of digging and the snatch strap). So they didn't even get the abalone they had come to dive for, they now had to explain a broken winch to their boss (on a car they had borrowed whilst off duty) and they were embarrassed as they couldn't even give Daniel a 6 pack because they worked in a dry zone!!!
The moral of the story is always carry a shovel!

When we told Emilia and Jackson the excitement from the night before they played 'towing someone out of a bog' with their bikes!!