5th Week - Wednesday - Wynyard

Packed up and hooked the car up.  The caravan stabiliser unit turned red, it is meant to go green.  Okay we will travel without the stabiliser.  Plugged the caravan brakes in and the controller in the car shows a fault.  Great now what.  Pulled the van out of the site and tapped the brakes a few times and the controller resets.  Off we go.  Drove for about 20 minutes and the controller indicates the the caravan brakes aren't connected and various other errors.  Decided not to go to Cradle Mountain without brakes.  Found a spot to turn around and headed towards Burnie.  Once in mobile range we rang RACT.  Half an hour later a guy turns up and recommends we go to an auto electrician and gives us the name of two places.  Ring the first one and they can fit us in next Tuesday.  Rang the second one and he said this afternoon.  Got a park in Burnie to wait the 3 hours until we could get the van looked at.  While waiting we rang Cradle Mountain and were very lucky as they could cancel tonight and move it to Friday so we will have Thursday / Friday there (if the brakes can be fixed).  Rang where we stayed the last 3 nights and said we would be back.  Finally it was time to take the car and van to the auto electrician and the car wouldn't start.  We had left the fridge on battery because it won't work on gas but the fridge was meant to be set up so it would run off the second battery and not the car battery.  We couldn't even jump start the car from the second battery.  We turned the fridge off and we had only just filled it with food!  Ian walked down to the auto electrician who said he would send someone to jump start us.  Ian arrived back and decided to try and start the car from the second battery again and it started just as the auto electrician pulled up.  We followed him back to the yard and 1 1/2  hours later they have done everything they can think of so we set off.  Unfortunately 5 minutes down the road it started playing up again so we have decided to stay put for a week and take it to the first auto electrician and hope they can fix it.  This is the one the RACT person had recommended in the first place so we are booked in for next Tuesday.  So here we are back in Wynyard for the next week so don't expect any posts for awhile as nothing will be happening.  (Luckily the food survived so one good thing for the day)