We packed up last night and gave a lot of thought to the drive home south through inland NSW, with the horrendously hot forecast.
By comparison, the night and morning in Fingal Bay was cool. Its difficult to prepare for extreme heat when your eating breakfast in really mild tempertures by the beach with a cool sea breeze.
The problem was Melbourne was quite mild today and stinking hot tomorrow and Sunday; inland NSW was horrendous today and tomorrow. We decided to play it by ear and see how the drive went. We stopped for fuel in Yass and opening the car door was like getting smacked with a red hot brick …. the heat was incredible.
Camping over night anywhere in inland NSW was going to be shockingly uncomfortable, followed up by the same in Melbourne tomorrow when we got home. The decision was made for us by the weather ……. any value in breaking the drive would be lost in the restless hot night. Neither of us like to use the aircon at night, its noisy especially when powered by the generator, and it also dries out the air. In the tempertures forecast we would have been forced to use it.
So onward and upward …… taking the weather out of the equation, the plan would have been to drive to Holbrook from Fingal Bay which would leave about a 4 hour drive home from Holbrook. So the extra 4 hours today would allow us to unpack and organise ourselves in relatively mild tempertures.
Wow. Welcome to Victoria ….. now that was a shit sight accompanied by a shit feeling
This is an Ultimate Camper which is claimed by its manufacturers to be the “Ultimate” extreme off road capable camper … a go anywhere unit. The car towing it has road tires and no winch. The significance is no-one goes extreme off road with road tires and no winch and the Ultimate Camper cost $60,000 (not a typo) and is very very basic. All it frills are in its capabilities, but certainly no aircon, and certainly no Foxtel. When Im sitting in a ‘not extreme off road place’ I would prefer to keep $25,000 of the $60,000, sit in my air-conditioned camper and watch Foxtel …… quite possibly right next door to this guy.
So thats it. All over bar unpacking the camper and doing a load of washing ….. we arrived home at 9pm tonight (Friday). 13 hours exactly after leaving Fingal Bay at 8am this morning. 1100km in 13 hours door to door, towing with fuel toilet and food stop was a dream run.
Daniel was amazing for the entire trip home. He didnt whine or whinge at all.
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