Thank you for your input, we are members of an Australia wide RACV plan for mechanical emergencies and will investigate the cabin chains. I appreciate your list of destinations. As for the 'Joe Blakes', I figure I have two options; send Tony in first, which might leave me with an awful lot of driving to do on my own or to train a Kookaburra to check it out for me. Much like the canaries the coal miners used to take down the pits to detect gas.

Cheers, Sue Waterloo ON (currently in Castlemaine)