Day 4

Our pre retirement trial trip- day 4
82km Cradock SA to Discovery Resorts- Wilpena Pound SA

Home for the night-Discovery Resorts- Wilpena Pound

The aim today was to make the short journey into the Flinders Ranges National Park to our base for the next few days. Job done✔️ but it was a little eventful 😳

Didn’t catch the sunrise as we chose a lazy start to the day with only a short drive ahead.

But the morning proved to be quite a stressful one 😥

Yesterday we made the mistake of keeping the van hooked up to the car for a few hrs and the fridge didn’t switch over to gas, instead it used the car battery 😳
This morning we noticed the charger1 for the Bluetti wasn’t working, and we thought we had an issue with that☹️

Following the short drive into Hawker, we left the van hooked up as we made a quick errand and on our return the car battery was dead
Zilch 🪫
Unable to unlock the doors.

Thankfully we had a Uniden portable jump starter kit and was able to get ourselves moving again

After much deliberation we decided the fridge was the culprit. But only as a result of our forgetfulness
Leaving the van hooked up had drained the battery and the short drive had done nothing to top it up.
Lesson learnt, hopefully 🙏🏻
On the ‘to do list’ - transfer fridge connection to ignition

Arrived at Discovery Resorts- Wilpena Pound to find it a little busier than when we were here previously, but the powered sites are spacious and set out to provide a feeling of privacy, so all good
There are so many places to stay in the ranges but we chose here as we could walk to the start of the trails we had planned, no need to drive anywhere for the next 3 days 😊
And we’re feeling a little more relaxed now that we’ve been able to fully charge the batteries 🔋

Johnny settled into the van to complete some outstanding work whilst Justine prepped for the next days hike 🥾🎒

Early to bed tonight for a very early start tomorrow 🛏️Leer más