13th July – Monday
The news from Georgetown isn’t exactly good. The local RACQ serviceman was unable to locate and repair the fault, therefore the car needs to be taken to the nearest Mitsubishi agent – 312 kms away at Atherton. Because we are more than 300 kms away, Mitsubishi required three quotes and finally awarded the job to the Georgetown RACQ agent. However, they can’t move the car until THURSDAY! We wont know until Wednesday if Les will be able to travel with the car or need to take the bus which, fortunately, comes through town on Thursday.
Either way, Les and the car will be in Atherton on Thursday, Pauline and the caravan will be in Georgetown. Once the car is fixed – knowing our luck, this will probably be a simple five minute job – Les will drive back to Georgetown to collect Pauline and the caravan. Owing to the large amount of wildlife, travelling at night is not a good idea. We will drive direct from here to Cairns in one day, a bit of a long drive but with two of us driving, shouldn’t be too bad.
The lady at Crystal Cascades was very nice about us being late and it wasn’t a problem. The people at the caravan park/service station have also been great – stay as long as we like and pay when we leave.
As we can’t use the car, we decided to “do” the town on foot after lunch. It didn’t take very long, especially as it is so hot. We did find a small supermarket cum general store, but they didn’t stock meat and the butcher looked to be closed and had a “For Sale” sign on the door. We might be eating takeaway by the end of the week! There is a very nice information centre which also has a library and I was able to take out the latest Lee Child novel after leaving a deposit of $30 which will be refunded when the book is returned.
There really isn’t very much to do in Georgetown and Cat is bored already. It is going to be a long week.
To make matters worse, someone mentioned that he had intended to do his birthday present shopping when we reached Cairns!!!
(Jack may also find some smarties in one of the cupboards.)
The news from Georgetown isn’t exactly good. The local RACQ serviceman was unable to locate and repair the fault, therefore the car needs to be taken to the nearest Mitsubishi agent – 312 kms away at Atherton. Because we are more than 300 kms away, Mitsubishi required three quotes and finally awarded the job to the Georgetown RACQ agent. However, they can’t move the car until THURSDAY! We wont know until Wednesday if Les will be able to travel with the car or need to take the bus which, fortunately, comes through town on Thursday.
Either way, Les and the car will be in Atherton on Thursday, Pauline and the caravan will be in Georgetown. Once the car is fixed – knowing our luck, this will probably be a simple five minute job – Les will drive back to Georgetown to collect Pauline and the caravan. Owing to the large amount of wildlife, travelling at night is not a good idea. We will drive direct from here to Cairns in one day, a bit of a long drive but with two of us driving, shouldn’t be too bad.
The lady at Crystal Cascades was very nice about us being late and it wasn’t a problem. The people at the caravan park/service station have also been great – stay as long as we like and pay when we leave.
As we can’t use the car, we decided to “do” the town on foot after lunch. It didn’t take very long, especially as it is so hot. We did find a small supermarket cum general store, but they didn’t stock meat and the butcher looked to be closed and had a “For Sale” sign on the door. We might be eating takeaway by the end of the week! There is a very nice information centre which also has a library and I was able to take out the latest Lee Child novel after leaving a deposit of $30 which will be refunded when the book is returned.
There really isn’t very much to do in Georgetown and Cat is bored already. It is going to be a long week.
To make matters worse, someone mentioned that he had intended to do his birthday present shopping when we reached Cairns!!!
(Jack may also find some smarties in one of the cupboards.)
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Oh dear! I can't stop smiling about the birthday present!!!
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