Monday 19th October 09
Stereo/DVD player produced a lousy picture. Tried several different DVDs but all were the same so checked all connections but achieved nothing. Tried another DVD but it wouldn’t play at all, and it will not eject it either.
Tuesday 20th October 09
Merry discovered water on the en-suite floor whilst the washing machine was on. It was coming from the washing machine during the filling process but not from the external inlet pipe. Can only assume there is a leak in the machine or the internal inlet pipe.
Wednesday 21st October 09
Rain stopped play
Thursday 22nd October 09
We drove over to Garon/Sue’s original house to see it with its newly sanded/polished floor which looks really good along with the new paint job.
In the evening, just to add to the joy of owning a new caravan, the Microwave died.
Friday 23rd October 09
Contacted Jayco about the equipment failures but didn’t gain much other than ‘I’ll call you back’ which didn’t happen
Saturday 24th
Stereo/DVD player produced a lousy picture. Tried several different DVDs but all were the same so checked all connections but achieved nothing. Tried another DVD but it wouldn’t play at all, and it will not eject it either.
Tuesday 20th October 09
Merry discovered water on the en-suite floor whilst the washing machine was on. It was coming from the washing machine during the filling process but not from the external inlet pipe. Can only assume there is a leak in the machine or the internal inlet pipe.
Wednesday 21st October 09
Rain stopped play
Thursday 22nd October 09
We drove over to Garon/Sue’s original house to see it with its newly sanded/polished floor which looks really good along with the new paint job.
In the evening, just to add to the joy of owning a new caravan, the Microwave died.
Friday 23rd October 09
Contacted Jayco about the equipment failures but didn’t gain much other than ‘I’ll call you back’ which didn’t happen
Saturday 24th
Rain stopped play.
Sunday 25th October 09
Garon/Sue drove down to us to see the new caravan and we all drove down to Mornington for lunch which gave us a brief look at the town and a very tasty meal. This ended a bad week pleasantly or started a new week pleasantly depending whether you consider Sunday to be the last day of the week or the first day of the following week.
Monday 26th October 09
Contacted Jayco again but still didn’t gain much response.
Tuesday 27th October 09
We took a late morning drive down the Mornington Peninsular to Portsea and Sorrento where we had lunch. We then went back to the end of the road in Portsea and visited the National Park and took a walk out to the beach and then back a different way to the car park.
Sunday 25th October 09
Garon/Sue drove down to us to see the new caravan and we all drove down to Mornington for lunch which gave us a brief look at the town and a very tasty meal. This ended a bad week pleasantly or started a new week pleasantly depending whether you consider Sunday to be the last day of the week or the first day of the following week.
Monday 26th October 09
Contacted Jayco again but still didn’t gain much response.
Tuesday 27th October 09
We took a late morning drive down the Mornington Peninsular to Portsea and Sorrento where we had lunch. We then went back to the end of the road in Portsea and visited the National Park and took a walk out to the beach and then back a different way to the car park. 
We headed back to Sorrento and watched the ferry to Queenscliffe leave, and are considering using it to go across and look at the Great Ocean Road to travel the western side of Victoria.
We also checked the beach in this area but found that in this State you can not exercise your dog on the beaches during daylight hours when ‘Daylight saving’ is in effect, or effectively during the summer months.
Merry hiked up to Coppin’s Lookout. We started to drive home which took us through several small coastal towns which had caravan parking along the foreshore which looked appealing and at reasonable cost, so we checked out the possibility of us using this area when we leave Frankston and over the post Christmas school holiday period. This proved negative as dogs are not allowed during the peak periods. We then drove out to Flinders and back to Frankston via the more casual route rather than the main highway.
Wednesday 28th October 09
Contacted Jayco again and his time gained a bit of attention in as much they arrange for the various equipment agents to contact us to inform us of the nearest respective service point.
Thursday 29th October 09
I took the microwave oven to Mornington to the LG agent for repair and discovered from the serial number that the machine was built in March 2008, so it was 19 months old before it became ours. We don’t know yet if LG work from the time we bought the van or from the time they sold the item to Jayco. If the later is the case, Jayco will be getting a wake up call.
We drove to Garon/Sue’s place for dinner and to stay the night. We took the washing machine with us as we had to take it to a place on Kooyong Road in Caulfield to have it repaired. The possums in the trees in the adjoining gardens make a heck of a noise at night.
Friday 30th October 09
The washing machine was found to leak where the inlet solenoid is connected to the inlet nozzle via a shot hose which did not have a clamp around it, which is now cured. The service agent waited until I had returned to Frankston and re-installed it in the van and then rang and asked us for the serial number that he didn’t check whilst he had the machine. This of course meant pulling it back out.
The agents for the Stereo/DVD player rang and told us they were posting out a new unit for us. Apparently, a different brand and more upmarket unit.
Saturday 31st October 09 and Sunday 1st November 09
Very dim drizzly days
Monday 2nd November 09
We drove south to a small village called Loch to check out the memorial reserve that offers cheap camping at $10 a night including power, water and gas BBQ. It is the village footy/cricket pitch in a very quiet, pleasant setting, alongside a river. The river has a $54000 pedestrian suspension bridge across it which is guarded at one end by a soldier at attention with is rifle, carved from a tree trunk. The bridge is the result of the local committee known as the ‘Loch, Stock and Barrel committee’.
On arrival back home, the replacement stereo/DVD had arrived.
Tuesday 3rd November 09
Victorian public holiday for the Melbourne cup horse race. At the moment we are experiencing very strong blustery winds and the threat of rain. We have installed the new Stereo /DVD upgrade but it didn’t cure the problem but it does return our DVDs when we want them back. The original one returned our DVD after disconnecting and reconnecting the power. After experimenting with both units and a domestic type recorder, we are now convinced the poor picture quality is due to the cabling, but as this is encapsulated in the roof there is nothing we can do about it. When we contacted the suppliers to find out where to return the original one to, they told us to dispose of it rather than return it. We now have two units.
Wednesday 4th November 09
The first few hours of the day presented a continuous drizzle, but cleared later so we drove down to ‘Ashcombe Maze and Lavender Gardens’ despite the threat of more unpleasant weather.
Wednesday 28th October 09
Contacted Jayco again and his time gained a bit of attention in as much they arrange for the various equipment agents to contact us to inform us of the nearest respective service point.
Thursday 29th October 09
I took the microwave oven to Mornington to the LG agent for repair and discovered from the serial number that the machine was built in March 2008, so it was 19 months old before it became ours. We don’t know yet if LG work from the time we bought the van or from the time they sold the item to Jayco. If the later is the case, Jayco will be getting a wake up call.
We drove to Garon/Sue’s place for dinner and to stay the night. We took the washing machine with us as we had to take it to a place on Kooyong Road in Caulfield to have it repaired. The possums in the trees in the adjoining gardens make a heck of a noise at night.
Friday 30th October 09
The washing machine was found to leak where the inlet solenoid is connected to the inlet nozzle via a shot hose which did not have a clamp around it, which is now cured. The service agent waited until I had returned to Frankston and re-installed it in the van and then rang and asked us for the serial number that he didn’t check whilst he had the machine. This of course meant pulling it back out.
The agents for the Stereo/DVD player rang and told us they were posting out a new unit for us. Apparently, a different brand and more upmarket unit.
Saturday 31st October 09 and Sunday 1st November 09
Very dim drizzly days
Monday 2nd November 09
We drove south to a small village called Loch to check out the memorial reserve that offers cheap camping at $10 a night including power, water and gas BBQ. It is the village footy/cricket pitch in a very quiet, pleasant setting, alongside a river. The river has a $54000 pedestrian suspension bridge across it which is guarded at one end by a soldier at attention with is rifle, carved from a tree trunk. The bridge is the result of the local committee known as the ‘Loch, Stock and Barrel committee’.
On arrival back home, the replacement stereo/DVD had arrived.
Tuesday 3rd November 09
Victorian public holiday for the Melbourne cup horse race. At the moment we are experiencing very strong blustery winds and the threat of rain. We have installed the new Stereo /DVD upgrade but it didn’t cure the problem but it does return our DVDs when we want them back. The original one returned our DVD after disconnecting and reconnecting the power. After experimenting with both units and a domestic type recorder, we are now convinced the poor picture quality is due to the cabling, but as this is encapsulated in the roof there is nothing we can do about it. When we contacted the suppliers to find out where to return the original one to, they told us to dispose of it rather than return it. We now have two units.
Wednesday 4th November 09
The first few hours of the day presented a continuous drizzle, but cleared later so we drove down to ‘Ashcombe Maze and Lavender Gardens’ despite the threat of more unpleasant weather. 
Ashcombe boasts two hedge mazes a rose maze and a lavender maze plus lake complete with water lilies, a rock garden a potted plant garden all surrounded in acres of woodland.
They are set up with a café and a marquee for wedding receptions. We spent several hours meandering through every area and then used the café for a coffee just as the threat of more drizzle became a reality. 
The hedge mazes have grown so thick that there is only just room to pass along the pathways whilst brushing both sides. The roses where not at their best but still very effective, whilst the lavender was in it’s peak.Despite the frequency of the rain, the dams are still less than 40% full.
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