Even though I was involved in the Adelaide Rally for the last 4 days, I have a capable Deputy so left the Event around 2:00Pm only leaving 3 stages left for Kieran to look after.

After dropping the gear at the Rally Office, picking up the caravan from the Showgrounds then home to get Jenny, we were on the road around 4:00Pm for the run to NSW.

My plan was to get to around Balranald tonight.

An hour into the drive, I contacted the Rally Office to see how the last 3 stages went. It appeared that they didn’t.

On one of the stages, SAPOL and SES needed access to find a missing child possibly in a dam. This stage was cancelled.

Another stage had a car flip over and block the road. By the time this was cleaned up, this stage was also cancelled.

That left only one of the three going through to completion.

We arrived to the Victorian Border before sunset. There were a couple of SAPOL members checking arrivals from Victoria but no Victoria Police to check travel passes into Victoria.

We only had a couple of hours as we traversed Victoria to the NSW Border and the road was very quiet with a couple of trucks and cars over the whole journey in both directions.

We arrived at the NSW Border at Tooleybuc around 10:00Pm and there was no-one to be found and no traffic either.

It was onto Balranald for fuel then just down the road to Yanga Creek Rest Area for a sleep.

We travelled 524 kms today and fuel at Pinnaroo was $1.649 a litre and Balranald $1.619 a litre.