John
captured the sun rise.
An unexpected visitor who was not totally happy with the visit.
But he did fly in the door.
We
spent time using data then headed back out. I dropped into the office
to say thanks and that we survived the night.
There
is a lot of hay being moved around. Not sure if it is being picked
up in paddocks and carted somewhere or what. Have not seen any in the paddocks.
We
drove through Celilabad and onto a white road finding a camp on the
edge of a paddock. A couple where turning the hay with forks and John
asked if we could camp there they seemed fine with it. I went over
and invited them to come and visit when they had finished, but they
finished and walked away.
A
few guys drove past with waves and we started to settle into our
evening routine.
Three
farmer types showed up and asked John what we were doing here? John
replied that we asked the couple and they seemed happy. Then another
car stopped and two guys got out. The farmer type took a step back
and these other two spoke to us strongly. However we did not
understand. With a third person on the phone we were told that we
were invited to this guys house for tea and we could park there. This
went on for a long time as we just wanted to stop for the night. We assumed he was the big wig of the local village. They were insistent,
but continued to tell John no problems we just want to invite you for
chai! Later the farmers three returned, John asked them if the other
two where good people he was told cops. So we asked if he was police
and he just pulled at his suit to indicate that of course he was
police he was wearing a suit…. Silly of us not to realise.
So
we had the plane clothed police trying to take us to his house. Well
about 20mins later the cop car arrived with 2 uniformed police, and
yes of course we would follow them….. So
we followed al the way back into town and ended up parking in the
police car park. He did give us the option of parking between some
trees which we accepted. As we collapsed into bed after putting all of
our privacy screens up John said “ I hope they tell the next shift
we are here”
158km