May 6th: a windy night at Devil’s Marbles and the inverter still didn’t work in the morning despite a number of reboots of the system! We reached phone reception at Tennant Creek and Nic  proceeded to ring REDARC the maker of the inverter who recommended service agents in Katherine and Darwin and then he rang Cub (speaking with Ashley). The autoelectrician in Katherine had no capacity to see us but we were able to arrange an appointment with Tate Autoelectrics on Friday at 12pm and they will come to us in the caravan park. They will try to repair our inverter and if they can’t then they will replace it with another one the same. After all this organising we recuperated in the Bay Leaf Cafe and I had a purple yam cookie! Who could resist  it, considering my love for all purple vegetables! 

We set off once more now armed with a plan of action! Katherine tomorrow night and Darwin the following night. To this end we stopped when we had had enough driving and that was at the uninspiring Elliot, where we are basically camped around the back of the post office with one other caravan !! I made a vegetable pasta sauce with 2 extra servings to freeze. 

 



Mornings views of Karlu Karlu


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  1. NoelMay 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM

    Hi Suzanne and Nic
    Good to hear about your progress. Seems like you are going to some interesting places! Lovely pics Suzanne especially of birds - loved the red tailed black cockatoo! I hope you manage to sort out inverter and other issues, but assume that apart from that, the caravan is performing well? Politics from which you are presently far removed has taken an interesting turn here, though many like us hope that Labor has the courage to translate its success into more concrete steps especially in environmental issues. Time will tell, but not sounding all that positive at present.
    Still apparently a slight chance we might get the Independent Jessie Price in our electorate to replace the sitting uninspiring Labor candidate.
    Travel safe and enjoy,
    Best, Noel

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