9 March, 2026 10:57

In Canberra for a lakeside chilly shower. Just got here. On the way in got water, saw Queanbeyan pool was full, and sold my two much appreciated batteries for $10 each, in fyshwick.

Then ordered a cheap inverter with thanks to MH who let me deliver it to him.

That’s it. Canberra done, and literally a huge weight off not carrying around two sets of heavy batteries.

WTF to do now?

That’s one of them above sitting on the ground at the fyshwick scrap metal yard after being sold. Marcus the mechanic gave them both to me in payment for a Transporter van that gave me endless grief. $500 in lieu of.

Here now:

And during a very chilly and twice loudly interrupted night I took this shot over the toilets of the moon. From in bed the only angle I could get.

11.21 AM Just boiled the jetburner and ready to go and sure enough, because I’m here it gives them the idea, down come people so I can’t shower with it. Cold southerly and my shower is getting cold! My fault I should have gone somewhere invisible. But it’s the same principle as people who park right next to me in two hundred yards of open space. People are sheep.

12.10 PM

Managed a shower by angling the car. Added a new glucose sensor. And just this minute chucked outvthe rwo empty Dune Battery boxes that I’ve been carrying around in case of returns. Overcautious but free now, decision made.

I really have to work out where I’m staying, pushing it at Brooks Hill with the prying natives.

4.38 PM

Back at Brooks Hill having a coffee. Got more $4 clearance lights at BigW which are bright, then out to Gungahlin Anaconda to get inverter cables, ordered earlier today, because I thought I’d stay out there.

But it was late, and I went only as far as just before Lake George then chickened out and drove the old Federal Hwy until it looped back, past some campers which might be the spot, then the Sutton Rd to Queanbeyan which bypasssed the whole Canberra thing. Still late re dinner.

Very tired and lonely, alone. Don’t want to go back to the coast.