After Waipu we thought we'd return to the Tasman side and explore some coastal scenery northwest of Auckland. En route, however, we decided to spend a couple lazy days back at Orewa Beach. It was a fateful decision since it was there, at the Orewa Beach Holiday Park, that we discovered our Jucy Chaser was not connecting to the AC current at the campground. The mains, as Brits say. As our house battery dwindled and we enacted the usual conservation measures, I checked every connection that could be checked. The mains worked, the electrical cord worked, no fuses burned nor tripped; nothing got past the electrical box in the camper, however.
A day and a half of calls to Jucy in Auckland availed nothing but promises to have someone come and look at it; and a dozen un-returned calls and messages. Saturday we decided to just drive to the Jucy facility in Auckland. The mechanic there never actually got to the electrical problem but found something else amiss in the water heater and said we'd have to change vehicles. So we unhappily spent Saturday morning at Jucy transferring all our stuff, including many improvements and additions we'd made, to the new vehicle. This all took four hours. The good news is that the "new" vehicle, identical in design and features to the old, has 40k fewer kilometers and appears much less worn on the interior. It even had a kettle. Everything, including the connection to mains, works. Plus we had the opportunity to once again go through all our stuff.
One of the things I had wanted to see in Auckland was the MOTAT Aviation Hall, its vintage aircraft and its memorial to Sir Keith Park, Auckland native and commander of the 11th Fighter Group that defended London during the Battle of Britain. We did this and then headed south to overnight at Onewhere Rugby Football Club facility and its freedom camp. By no means our first campsite at a rugby club.
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| In addition to nice walks on the beach, into town, and a nice lunch, there were some Pohutukawa trees in Orewa still in bloom |
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| Our Saturday morning consisted of moving the contents of the left one to the right one |
1 comment:
I'm sorry you had trouble with your Jucy, but glad you got the problem fixed, and hopefully got a better rig in the exchange. Nice to see a photo of the RV, too! I was wondering what it looked like!
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