Mon, 21st Feb - Phillip Island

Today started well ... no battery!!  No battery means - no water pump, no toilet flusher, no lights, no auto light gas stove, etc. etc.  It seems that a certain anderson plug may not have been pushed right in to allow charging whilst driving yesterday.  Never mind ... running the motor for a short time fixed it ... another lesson learned, haha. Not having any sun for the solar panel didn't help either.

Getting out of the tight spot proved to be a bit of a challenge, but not as bad as imagined during the night.  The Wrecker maneuvered the big beast around leaving the faintest of bush scrub marks on a couple of windows.

With brekky over we drove to a place recommended on another campers blog ... Tidal River, which is further south on Wilson's Promontory. It's true ... it is a beautiful spot in a National Park.  There are only a total of 20 powered sites in the camping area and only one was left at a cost of $53 per night.  Even unpowered sites of which there are some 400 odd, were $23 per night. We decided this was a bit of a rip-off and kept going, driving on through wild wind and rain to a place called Cowes on Phillip Island.  By the time we arrived at the caravan park the sun had emerged and the world was full of joy again!

Once there we contacted Noel at Roadstar as we appear to have developed a slight leak in our front window.  Noel was very obliging and suggested we visit the Roadstar factory in Craigieburn, Melbourne as early as possible on Thursday, and they would have a look at it for us. Noel said they would like it overnight so we would need to stay somewhere in a cabin or similar for one night.

Panorama of Tidal River