Getting the AC replaced

[This post is related to the “trials and tribulations” post about malfunctioning equipment. You can read it here.]

It was faster than expected: The new AC unit shipped from Melbourne arrived within five days and we could get it fixed a few days later. So instead of going straight down the East Coast to the Freycinet National Park, we took a detour via Launceston. The procedure was meant to take something between half a day and two days depending on complications.

The pictures below are from our campsite at Old Mac’s Farm on the southern edge of the city. We got up at sunrise…

… and made it in time to the electronic appliances shop that would handle the replacement of the air conditioner – on the sidewalk in front of the building along a busy road! (Other caravans had to line up on the curb waiting for their turn.)

The electrician was finished in record time: It took him less than an hour, every move practised a thousand times. But the weather was too cold to test the cooling function of the unit. We had to wait for a hot day… and when would that happen?! At this time we didn’t know that in ten days a 35-degree heatwave (one day) would be waiting for us at the Central Highlands and the AC would save the day.