When we arrived back to the caravan last night after dinner at the local pub we lost all battery power to the caravan. It had been playing up a little over the past couple of weeks but we were ignoring it. Silly us. We eventually restored lights but there wasn't enough voltage in the battery to run the water pump. Sponge baths for us. When we woke this morning there was only JUST enough power to bring in the slide and lift the levelling legs. Philip is fairly certain that one of the two batteries has lost a cell that means it is not holding charge. The good news is that we will be in Toowoomba on Tuesday where there are heaps of auto electricians so we will swap out the two AGM batteries for one Lithium and because we are staying in Toowoomba for a number of days we can make certain that everything is running smoothly on solar/battery before we start heading north. We were going to go down the Lithium path at any rate so as it has turned out it is just sooner rather than later.
As I have mentioned previously, we have had to dodge flooded roads on our journey north/east and today when I put our destination of Toobeah into the Qld Transport app it told us that there were two routes - one had road damage but the other was all clear. We chose the route that was "all clear" of course. Big mistake. This road was 50km of gravel road. ****sigh**** It was a very slow road and when we arrived at Toobeah and I opened the door I was meet with dusty floors and benches. It could have been worse I guess but it is still annoying that Qld Transport sent us down this road. But, as Philip rightly pointed out, it is a gazetted road....
We are staying at another free camp tonight. This one is behind the Toobeah pub. It is a lovely green grassed area with lots of shade on the western side. We did pay the optional $10 for power hook-up that was an absolute necessity for us with no battery power, and I daresay we will be grateful for air-con later this evening as the temperature has risen to 35 degrees. Is it really just three days ago that we were warming the van?
Once we had given the inside of the van a quick clean we headed over to the pub for a counter lunch of steak sandwiches and cool beers (forgot to take photos). It was actually pretty good value at $12 and much better value than the very ordinary steak and salad I had for dinner last night at Bollon that cost $32.
Our journey today took us through St. George and the whole town is in Jacaranda bloom! I think the Jacaranda tree is my favourite tree. It's just a shame that it looks so ordinary when it isn't in bloom.
Tomorrow we will arrive at our friends place at Leyburn. Philip is looking forward to seeing the machine that they imported from Cananda and is used to to cut the felled timber into different sizes. I am just looking forward to catching up with our friends news. We will stay here a couple of days and should arrive into Toowoomba on Tuesday. I am looking forward to seeing my mum.
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