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Wednesday morning 2nd September 2015

Home at Taree. (And b...dy cold!) 3 deg. overnight!  7 deg. at &.30 am.

We arrived home yesterday at 1.00 pm.

Smoke signals were sent from the top of Middle Brother Mountain at Johns River to announce our imminent arrival at Taree.   Thank you who ever arranged this gesture.

The trip from Macksville was fairly slow owing to the vast amount of road work being carried out. There were long stretches of 80, 60 & 40 kph stretches with some lollipop men thrown in for luck.  This resulted in our best fuel economy for the whole trip, 8.39 ltr/100km or 33.67 mpg.  Actually, there are big road works happening from Brunswick Heads to just below Ballina.  Because we went inland from Grafton we did not see what is happening from Grafton to the Raleigh intersection where we re-entered the highway. More works started there   and continued through to south of Nambucca Heads, Warrell Creek, Eungai and nearly to Clybucca.  Can’t say that no money is being spent on the Pacific Highway!

We travelled a total of 15,868 km. used $2,415.75 worth of diesel at an average cost of $1.407 per ltr. Returning averages of 10.90 ltr/100km or 26.10 mpg. .15 cents per kl.

The cheapest fuel was at Ceduna @ $1.209, the dearest at Renner Springs and the 3 Ways @ $1.74.

Well I had better get back to doing something usefull now.

Best regards from Des & Bev.