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Here we are in Hervey Bay. That is the Boat Club in the back ground with the marina behind it. We get a lovely breeze flow through the bus and do not need to run the aircon at this stage. I think it will be turned on if the air is still. My little red shelter is now moved to the rear of the awning and a new green larger shelter is in it's place. Photos to come. We went on a boat cruise up the western side of Fraser Island all the way to the Light house. Derek climbed the sand dune to the light house while I stayed in the cool water catching lots of fish (darts). Too small to eat and I don't think you can eat dart. Anyway, more blogs to come.

Wow, what a difference a hair cut can make. This is SYD after me attacking him with my clippers. He sat there without any complaints through 15min of tidy up work on his long scruffy hair. I think he likes it too. His little doggy friends he plays with in the park also liked his new look.

New addition to our family

Derek is loving his new little companion "SYD".
He is a rescue dog and is around two years old.
He is not a yappy or naughty dog at all.
He is very obedient and polite and loves the bus.

The nights are still very cold and so I made SYD an emergency night coat which he wore without any fuss at all. He has since had a hair cut and wears a knitted roll neck jumper. Now the nights are a lot warmer in the past couple of nights so I think jumper will go away till next winter if we have to be south for that time of the year again. We think he is a Jack Russell x with a silky terrier, maybe.

Sydney visit

The best way to see Sydney and stay out of the stinch of the toxic streets.

Naughty Fridge

 This is the naughty WAECO fridge. It plays up every now and then and decides not to turn back on until the temperature is around 12c in the fridge compartment. Then turns off once it has reached 5c. This happens no matter what the temperature gauge is set at. Two weeks ago it was doing this constantly, instead of once in a while and then stopped alltogether. So we called in the experts.

 One week later, and having to use there little box fridge, they can't seam to be able to fix the problem. So they bought our fridge back to us!!! It was working mostly, but not constantly at the correct temp. Then it decided to turn off for the whole night. More food to throw out. This is so annoying. Do we buy a new fridge or are they going to be able to fix the problem. They seam to just want to moniter the fridge for days and then say they are puzzled, it works fine then doesn't work fine. I told them that right from the start. They did replace a switch the first day they had the fridge, but that only fixed the "not turn back on" problem.

The original pesky problem is still there. So two weeks on now and they still want to just monitor it. This is stupid. Out the door goes the overly expensive 24v WAECO motorhome fridge and in with a 240v SAMSUNG house fridge. We have 8 big solar panels, 8 house batteries and a large inverter so a two and a half star energy saving rating house fridge at $500 is a lot better than a dodgy $2,000 motorhome fridge that spoils our food and could make us very sick. Problem fixed. Boy, what an expensive weekend. Could have been worse.

Mold under bed

I thought this may happen but prayed it wouldn't. But it did, moisture trapped under the mattress. We lifted the top end of our very heavy pure latex mattress to put the fresh clean fitted bottom sheet on and there it was on the bottom of the mattress, MOLD. Yuck, how dare it. So now we can't ignore the fact that we have not bothered to put some sort of ventilation under our very expensive mattress. So off to Bunnings to find a good fix. This is what we came up with, a Bamboo Garden Screen and a pair of Secauters. The secauters was used to trim the screen to fit on the bed base. This should give the mattress some ventilation under the bed, plus leaving the covers off all day. The mattress cover had to be cut apart to remove all the moldy sections, which was directly under our bodies on the bottom of the mattress, and replaces with new material. We aired the latex out in the sun for the day. It didn't have any signs of mold on it at all. We were luck this time. The mold has developed only in the past 10 days. That is how long it has been since we looked at the bottom of the bed. Fingers crossed this works. The screen cost us $48, I know, cheap, but it was the best thing we could come up with and if it works, then perfect.

Getting Dizzy

We have moved sites but still at Paradise in Tamworth. That is us in the back ground. Main shot is of Getting Dizzy. We met these guys on Face Book. They mostly travel around all of NSW in this lovely little motorhome towing a trailer with their little car and a good size storage cupboard on it. This couple are wonderful Aussie people with lots of great stories to tell of there adventures. They will soon off load their trailer for a smaller one and not bother with a car in tow, so if you see them on the road, give them a toot and a big wave. There names are Lyn & Shane.