What shall we do on this stinking hot day?

I know, let’s walk around in the sun, buy hot food and drink hot coffee! Well, we did!

Highly recommend Eumundi markets. We visited on a Wednesday and it was absolutely packed, visitors hoping for a bargain, a “completely organic” ointment that cures all or some gadget they didn’t know they needed in their life.

Delicious arancini balls and the obligatory Dutch poffitjes (kind of mini pancakes) were devoured, Fran bought us two candle holders made from Australian banksia seed pods.

Many visitors meant many cars. We parked in the $9 grass car park right next door, with everyone else, in the baking 36° heat. We had perishable food in the car, so we put up the windscreen shade and turned on the air con for a few hours while we wandered the markets and had morning tea. No hot engine or fumes.

The best part was pre-cooling the Tesla and revelling in it at the end of our wanderings.

Charging:

Oddly, no public chargers in Eumundi. We arrived with 34% battery, having stayed in Marcoola the previous few days without charging. We left with 29% charge, having run the air con and Sentry Mode for a few hours in the parking area.

We’ll stop at a public charger at some town further north.