Dramas, drames and more dramas

Well we waited at Waratah, a town with much history and once the largest tin mine in the world while Allan and Maureen caught up and as we were running low on fuel had to wait until new supplied arrived. Decided to camp at The Fossey River rest area and met up with fellow Qlders who were doing the same as us in a caravan.

Of course while camped there Allan's fridge goes on the blink and won't work on 12v. By the time they realised it was not working everything was starting to melt. Some was transferred to our fridge to save it but I think Allan had to live on thawed out sausages. It was discovered the converter gizmo (technical term) that runs it on 240v was only working intermittently and the fridge would work perfectly on the generator but not off batteries. It was decided Allan would return to Burnie to have repairs done while we went on to Cradle Mountain and he would catch up later.

We pulled into the car park at Cradle only to find we were parked nose to nose with Wendy Purvis, one of our Chapter members so we exchanged good camp sites after we had been up the mountain. Only wish we were 20 years younger and fitter for places like this that require so much walking. It is a truly spectacular mountain and you could walk for a week and not see everything. To our surprise when we returned to the car park we saw Allan's bus there, apparently the frig started working on 12v and still is but your truly will be effecting a bypass of the "gizmo" as soon as we get to a town where we can buy suitable cable for the job.

Tonight we are camped in the back of the Wee Georgie Wood 2' gauge railway tourist attraction at Tullah, only wish we were here on a day when it was operating. Haven't had time to read up on the history of the steam engine but would suppose it was used in the early mining industry around here. We started chatting to another Qld couple on the UHF as we approached Tullah and they are camped with us tonight.

Tomorrow who knows where but there are lots of alternatives with various lakes and towns within easy reach.