Sorry to be leaving St Ives showground tomorrow morning, an idyllic situation amongst the gum trees ... but all good things must come to an end and and so it's on to Marulan.
thankfully Big al came to my rescue and recommended a repairer to look at "moonshines" engine so hopefully in a few days we will sail through Taralga toward Bathurst
We had the delightful pleasure of Milton and Pam's company while we were here and they were surrounded with all their "pets" and the more bromide they fed them the more they visited them. I must say that we felt very left out and discriminated against that they had all that company and we had none.
Today, in anticipation of of higher temperatures in "the outback", we purchased a 3 kw generator to run the air connditioner
Monday, February 21, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
St Ives
Its a cloudy Friday morning and yesterday I started dismantling the turbo from the motor but when I saw that the oil was coming from the manifold and not the turbo, it knocked the stuffing out of me as we had spent so much time and money fixing and examining the motor at LBJ tours. Looks like a broken ring on the left cylinder bank I guess it comes down to the old addage..."pay peanuts and you get monkeys"
We are at St Ives showground, just north of Sydney and I was surprised just how close to the city it is.
The showground is a huge complex with about 5 or 6 arenas for all different activities . It is all tree covered and camping is very spread out. They have just finshed filming a segment of "Rescue Special Ops" here which will go to air in about 16 weeks. It has to do with a van park that has been hit a cyclone and birth of a baby by a woman trapped under an overturned caravan. ( And yes, they used a real baby)
Think we will stay until early next weekafter both Queen Elizabeth II and queen Mary II have been and gone... must have a look at them.
After that it's probably off to Richmond and then Bathurst
Both Maureen and I have recieved just about 100% clearance from our doctors, and have been declared fit.
We are at St Ives showground, just north of Sydney and I was surprised just how close to the city it is.
The showground is a huge complex with about 5 or 6 arenas for all different activities . It is all tree covered and camping is very spread out. They have just finshed filming a segment of "Rescue Special Ops" here which will go to air in about 16 weeks. It has to do with a van park that has been hit a cyclone and birth of a baby by a woman trapped under an overturned caravan. ( And yes, they used a real baby)
Think we will stay until early next weekafter both Queen Elizabeth II and queen Mary II have been and gone... must have a look at them.
After that it's probably off to Richmond and then Bathurst
Both Maureen and I have recieved just about 100% clearance from our doctors, and have been declared fit.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Still More Bellambi
Wednesday night finds us at youngest sons' place for the night while Maureen undertakes a sleep test.
Last night we had dinner at the Hellanic club with Jim & Glenda & Alan & Dawn. Tuesday night is a pasta or lamb shanks night. I think we embarrassed the others when we both refused to drive home. Eventually a compromise was reached by Alan and Dawn delivering us safely out of the tenticles of the law .
No.1 daughter came to the rescue to retrieve the car this morning.
We moved the bus to a slightly safer location (we hope) while we are away tonight and I am loathe to return to the boatramp due to the degredation caused by the salt which is now becoming apparent, however I have an appointment there with an auto electrician on friday morning to sort out the house betteries which I am sure need replacing.
Hopefully, next week will see us in a new location.
Last night we had dinner at the Hellanic club with Jim & Glenda & Alan & Dawn. Tuesday night is a pasta or lamb shanks night. I think we embarrassed the others when we both refused to drive home. Eventually a compromise was reached by Alan and Dawn delivering us safely out of the tenticles of the law .
No.1 daughter came to the rescue to retrieve the car this morning.
We moved the bus to a slightly safer location (we hope) while we are away tonight and I am loathe to return to the boatramp due to the degredation caused by the salt which is now becoming apparent, however I have an appointment there with an auto electrician on friday morning to sort out the house betteries which I am sure need replacing.
Hopefully, next week will see us in a new location.
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