You never know what might happen.

The last 4 days have seen Canberra covered in rain and water that just about washed my house away, but thats a different story.

We have two horses located on a farmers property not far from my house, and yesterday we recieved an SMS saying they had some problems with one of their dams and it has over flown and damaged a road.  Now me being me, the wife, daughter and I decided to go for a look see.

All the dams were over flowing with water that had eludged the property for some 12 months, and the creeks were fully up.  We drove around for a bit and then decided to turn around a head for home.  Well what was until the new Hilux hit slipped on the soggy ground and then stopped any forward motion.....  On getting out and having a look the front wheel was at least 1 1/2 foot in mud, and the rear was almost up to the diff....  It was about this time that I wish I had my old truck back, as its mud tires and double diff locks would of made getting out of this a whole lot ease, and if all else failed I could of used the 12,000 winch.

Well that was then and this was now....  Putting the wife to work in digging out mud and getting the daughter to find some roughage for the wheels I removed the extra mud from the sides of the truck...  All this proved to be in vain as it became obvious that this truck wasnt coming out with out help...  A quck phone call to the farmer had him down in my direction and a quick snatch backwards saw the trusty hilux free again...

While this only chewed up some time, it would of been much more serious if I was out of reach and was unable to get some extra assistance.  Heck I could of been there for days or until the ground dried up.

What it did highlight to me is that I need to transfer all the safetly equipment from my ould truck to this new hunting truck so I can get our of situations like this if and when the need arrises.  This is something everyone that hits the bush to go hunting should consider.  Just because you have a 4x4 doesnt mean that you can get into trouble every now and then, and the best thing to do is be prepared.