Today was just a drive day. We packed up around 9, dumped our rubbish and went and filled with water.
We popped up to Dampier Peninsula to look at the Red Dog statue and have a look around the port area. The large ships get loaded with all the material from the very long trains.
We then popped down the highway to head south. Along the way we fueled up and managed to find a dump point to empty our loo, which was disgusting because there was no water to rinse the dump point so everyone's poop was all over the place.
Later in the day when we got sick of driving we found a free camp on the wikicamps app and it was actually quite nice. The free camps are always the best ones. Plenty of space so we feel like we are the only ones there but there were other people spread around so safety in numbers and it had a nice rock formation for a back drop.
I used the opportunity to pop a rubber spring helper back into our caravan coil spring that I had removed way back when we had our little suspension issue on the Gibb. In doing so I had to let the tyre down very low to get the clearance I needed to pop it in.
When I pumped the tyre back up the on board compressor blew a fuse. No problems it has done that before, mainly because I use light rated fuses as Id much prefer to blow a fuse than melt a wire. But on this occasion it continued to blow fuses as soon as it really got a big load, which it does putting the high pressures into the caravan, which was odd.
A quick google search for the spec on this particular compressor would suggest the fuse I use is in fact way too light. It is only a 20 amp fuse and the ARB compressor will draw over 20 amps when it is under a heavy load. Of course I do not have anything larger than 20 amp fuses in my kit so we will have to get some at the next servo. I managed to get enough into the tyre during the fuse blowing exercise.
We had snags, mash, onion and gravy for tea and it was so yum haha.
We watched the logies on telly and went to bed.