Domestic day in AS doing washing, cleaning, catching up on the Blog. We head into town and visit Tyre Power, Super Cheap Auto, Bunnings, and a number of other camping places for supplies for the vans and cars as well as Woolworths for some staples.
Tony is busy looking for jerry can holders to instal onto his back bar to provide additional diesel or water carrying capacity as well as provide better weight distribution on his towball.
The weather is in the mid to high 20s and very pleasant this afternoon sitting under the awning typing the blog and talking to van neighbours – Lacky and his wife.
Following numerous calls to the car & van’s electrical system installer, Michael links up our Land Cruiser to Tony’s van and identifies that his van’s compressed air/dust system switches off minutes after the car’s ignition system is switched off. This identifies that the wiring in Tony’s van has been wired direct to power rather than a relay to the ignition……..an auto electrician job to fix.
Michael is now attempting to locate the 50 amp fuse in the van that supposedly controls the power flow to the grey Anderson plug. He locates this fuse and with the help of a multimeter from Lacky identifies that it is not working. Michael replaces the fuse and with further testing identifies that there is no current flow either side of the fuse, even with it plugged into the Land Cruiser which is supplying power via its grey anderson plug. A real mystery and too late to ring Electricians in Melbourne……a job for first thing in the morning!!!!!
Our installer guide of yesterday, Mark pops in for a chat and discussion on caravan issues. He has a very good caravan maxim of “Stop travelling after any of the Three threes” i.e.
- Three Hours
- Three Hundred kilometres
- Three O’clock
to which Tony laughs and comments that he has travelled 700+ klms on Day 1.
After tea, cooked in the camp kitchen [ chicken drumsticks and salad], we head off to the Kangoanemu Shed for an evening with local singer and landscape photographer Barry Skipsey. He sings many Australian outback songs, many of which he has written himself, and requires the audience to become involved in singing the chorus of many of these songs. His slides of over 400 photos are stunning and bring back memories of familiar sites. One photo of Rainbow Valley with water in the pans in front of the rock escarpment, took 9 consecutive days visiting Rainbow Valley to get the right conditions of no wind for reflections in the water. It was most enjoyable and relaxing night.
Michael, Tony and I head back to our van for a night’s sleep…….quite warm with sleep not coming easily for Michael, so he gets up and reads.
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