We headed south and stopped in Geelong for a bit of a look
around. We got to the riverfront park about 11:30 and while the weather wasn’t
ideal it was pretty warm and we were amazed that there were so few people
around. The boys went for a swim while I tried to figure out why the solar
system on the van was flashing and reading high voltage. I was also having a
fair few problems with keeping charge in the auxillary battery in back of Izzy.
After about four attempts I managed to get the problem in The Gator figured. In
the process I discovered that the auxillary battery in the back of the truck had
shorted out and had very nearly burnt the truck down. If petrol or diesel had
been stored in the drums beside the battery I may have provided some early New
Year fireworks.
After messing around in Geelong we went to Moolap, to camp
in the carpark of one of my customers shops! The guys at Mario’s Bait and
Tackle have always been great supporters of us and it was good to catch up with
them. We were still pretty knackered so we just stuck a movie on for the boys
and chilled for the afternoon. Once the boys were in bed I rewired all of the
earth leads on Izzy’s Auxillary battery and put few extra layers of insulation
on the place where it had shorted. As dusk fell the mozzies attached in North
Queensland like numbers! I retreated to the van and slept very very soundly!
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