Bregmen Ozzie Adventure: Mt Isa

Well what a week this has been! We originally booked in to the caravan park for two nights and ended up staying nine nights.
I thought I had turned the fridge to electricity. Found out, when I went to get some meat to thaw out, that I had turned the dial to "off" and not to "AC".
Wondered why the tv turned off every time I turned the range hood light on until one night when I walked back from the ablution block and wondered which direction everyone had their aerials pointing, discovered that our aerial was still lying flat on the roof. Once I had put the aerial up we got lots of channels and the range hood light no longer affected reception (funny that).

Upon our arrival at Mt Isa rang the oven manufacturer in Melbourne and they agreed to "see us right" making a new bracket for the oven door glass and we are to install it. Decided not to wait in Mt Isa for the oven part but asked that it be sent to Charters Towers.

Sunday went to church. As we walked up the steps recognized the guy standing at the top. Bishop Bill Ray again. He was there for baptisms, confirmation, reaffirmation and presenting lay ministers with their licenses. He recognized us too and said, "am I following you, or are you following me?" (he and his wife had left home at 3:30am to get to Mareeba by 8:30. This time he had a 10 hour drive back home and said he expected to get home at about 1am Monday morning.)

Brandt is always doing something under the vehicle and on Wednesday discovered that the exhaust tail pipe bracket needed to be welded back in position. That done he then noticed an oil leak. Discovered it was from the diff lock. Now while at Mareeba we had the air bags and diff locks done. The short story is that one of the air bags kept leaking. Finally got that sorted at Normanton. The leak from the diff lock was due to the bolts being cross threaded. Thankfully the Mareeba garage took ownership of the problems. It would have cost him a lot of money for these other two garages to fix the problems. While they had the axles out they called us and said that the wheel bearings needed repacking so got that done while it was all open. Full marks to Mareeba for paying for it all with no quibbles. RACQ has come to the party and will reimburse our caravan park fees Wednesday to Saturday.

So we finally got to drive to the Mt Isa lookout and see the city.