Technical Difficulties

25 June – Wednesday

Decided last night to use the laptop and mobile phone to connect to the internet and update The Blog. Just a small panic until the right connecting cord was located, then a click on the icon which the nice man in the shop had set up and tested – it worked just fine in the shop, of course. What did I get? A message to say there was no dial tone! Had to ring Telstra, try and explain to a computer what my problem was before finally being connected to a very helpful techie. We had to set up a new connection and everything worked perfectly. Keep the fingers crossed for tonight!

A very cold night but fortunately we realised the insulation in the caravan does help – 1o outside and 9o inside. It also pays to get up first, have breakfast and a shower. We discovered our power pole had a very dodgy connection and we lost power just after I had my shower and before Les cooked his toast. Much muttering as the gas was connected to cook toast and fingers were crossed I had left enough hot water for a second shower.

Onwards to Canberra, only a couple of hours down the road and similar country to yesterday. High country grasslands and hills, lots of sheep and some cattle, plus an ostrich or three! There didn’t appear to be many houses about but there were certainly plenty of letterboxes at the ends of roads.

TomTom is proving very helpful and making life very easy as far as finding addresses, especially. He hasn’t been upset for a couple of days now.

The Crestview Caravan Park at Queanbeyan is very similar to most parks now – mainly on-site cabins with a few powered sites. However, the sites are very large and flat and hopefully there wont be any power problems. We have booked in for 7 nights (same price as 6 nights), so decided to pull out the awning for the first time. After much reading of instructions before and during the operation, the awning was set up and looked lovely. The weather was glorious, with not a cloud in the sky. Unfortunately, three hours later there were still no clouds but it was very windy and extremely cold. The decision was made to roll up the awning – instructions were to reverse the procedure. Easier said than done! Again, much muttering took place before the awning was secured and hypothermia had set in.