Well Rockhampton certainly didn't go to plan. We managed to get all our shopping done that we needed, including a warmer doona for Erin and we were ready to continue north by about 2.30pm. We had parked on the main road outside Stockland Shopping Centre because we didn't want to try and tow the trailer around the shopping centre car park. When we got back out to the car, we found a note on our windscreen to say a woman had seen a delivery truck side-swipe our 4wd and keep going. We quickly ran around to see how much damage was done, because we hadn't noticed anything while packing the groceries away in the trailer and Geoff hadn't noticed anything from the back of the car to the driver's door. The side of our bull bar was torn and twisted and amazingly no other damage was found. We were parked behind two other cars and in front of another one but he had managed to miss everything else, just clipping our bull bar, but with enough force to write it off. We were directed to centre management for more information. The lady at centre management gave us the witness's phone number and the rego number that she'd received so we could go to the police and make a report. It turned out that the rego number didn't belong to any vehicle and when the witness was called, she said that the boys in the car with her had told her the number and she'd only seen that it was a truck.
We left Rocky about 4pm feeling quite angry and frustrated at how some people could be such bastards. We had to find somewhere to stay reasonably close as we still had a short in the trailer and therefore no tail lights so no night driving. We decided to stay behind the Marlborough Hotel, $12 per night with hot showers sounded very good to us. Tomorrow we'll look for somewhere a little further away from civilisation and crazy truck drivers.
