It was particularly cold last night, down to zero, but we
survived. Merry took a walk through part
of the town for a bit of exercise, from the visitor centre to the local church
and cemetery via the track alongside the river where it passes under the under
the grey stone road bridge. She managed it quite well without knocking herself
out and subject to the weather will walk around a bit more of the town
tomorrow. The batteries we ordered
yesterday arrived late in the afternoon so Barry can replace the original
tomorrow, and then work out where to mount the extra one, plus find somewhere
to get some cables made up to join them.
21st June 2013
We survived another cold night at a temperature below
yesterday’s temperature as we had no water to the caravan because the outside
tap and our hose had frozen. Fortunately
we still had some water in the underfloor tanks that we were able to pump
through to make our morning tea/coffee and breakfast. We will fill the tanks to a fuller level in
readiness for more freezing weather. We
didn’t get this cold when we were in Hobart a few years ago, but that is
virtually at sea level, not at 1900 ft (603 metres) up Mt Macedon. You don’t realise the height as you drive
from Melbourne as it is a long very gradual incline except for the last few
kilometres after turning off the Calder Highway. We took another walk through another part of
town along the creek to continue building up Merry’s fitness again.
22nd June 2013
Another morning of heavy frost but the tap didn’t freeze up
this time buy wasn’t far off it. It
starts to melt and drip off the trees onto the caravan at about 9.00am when the
sun finally reaches it, and then it sounds like rain. Terry does a lot of
quilting as her hobby so this afternoon we visited a quilting show in Lanceton but it
didn’t particular excite us including Terry. Some of the designs were quite good but most
had been given to professional quilters for the actual quilt work.
23rd June 2013
Yet another no-water-first-thing-in-the-morning event but
the prediction is a few degrees warmer for the next few nights. Apart from having an immediate supply of
water in the morning it is unlikely that we will notice any significant difference
in the temperature.
24th June 2013
We drove back to Taylors Lake again and returned the Grundig
PVR that we had bought as it didn’t live up to expectations and had our money
returned, and then went to another shop and bought a slightly more expensive
Sony equivalent. This has already proven
to be more superior and actually does what it should. The external appearance of Merry’s throat is now
totally normal with no signs of having been burnt in anyway. Internally her throat has good and not so
good days but generally is vastly improved now that the predicted ‘worst two
weeks’ are over and done with. Her
appetite is still good and with the softer type meals that are prepared with
her in mind, there are no real swallowing problems, probably due to the
steroids which she has now decreasing. We drove to New Gisborne and had a
couple of cables made up and have connected our two batteries together to give
us longer lasting battery power when we free camp in the future. That will have to wait a while until we leave
here and even then it will need to be somewhere warmer. We also had a quick look at the pretty town
of Gisborne and a stroll around the local shops.
26th June 2013
Merry’s throat is much improved and eating slightly more
solid food but still needs to build up some fitness so we’ll continue with the
short walks and try to gradually extend them. It will be quite a while before we do 2 hour
trips to the base of waterfalls again, we’ll just use the lookouts at the top. It is our turn to cook today and the plan is
a have normal oven cooked roast pork and vegies in the traditional style, to
really test Merry’s swallowing ability.
The meal was a success although Merry knocked herself out
with the monumental project in preparing and cooking it, including a dessert
and Merry managed to swallow it with relative ease.
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