Travelling with a kombi obsessed critter like Luke and being married to him for a couple of years now, means that whilst we have been trawling this great big country, we always have our eyes peeled for... yep, you guessed it... kombis. And while there seemed to be a bit of a VW drought as we crossed the Kimberly and down to Uluru, heading from Tennant Creek to Mount Isa proved pretty exciting for us!
First we spied this little beauty, which to the untrained kombi spotter eye could look rather like an old rusted out shell of a car, that has been stripped bare and left for dead. Well, that's pretty much what it is, but it's also a split screen kombi from the 1960s. You know, the rare kind? Anyway, Luke did a crazy maneuver on the Barkley highway, about 93km west of Mount Isa, just to see this guy up close and decide whether it may be worth calling our old mate tow truck driver from Tennant Creek to rescue him too. The verdict? Unfortunately this old boy kombi is a little too far gone and is best left to add an interesting glitch to the barren landscape of central Australia and a little excitement to any kombi fans driving past.
We also discovered this split screen van at a top secret location (hey, these things are like finding a massive gold nugget to the kombi fanatic) and we're kicking ourselves that we didn't take the time to go and chat to the owner. But we're not going to forget this little splitty just yet and have been playing detective for the past few days in the hope of tracking down the person wanting to get rid of this pile of 'junk' from their backyard. We'll take it!
Yours in the great outdoors,
Odette
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