We managed to catch up with a kindred spirit, Ric Richardson, for breakfast in Byron Bay…

…at the Marvell Street Cafe. We’ve worked on a few projects together, over the years, building apps to demonstrate various patents. Emails, chat messages and video chats are great ways to communicate data and specs. But there are some people where you just cherish the chance to meet face to face.

As usual, we have all of our gear, including food, packed in the car. We left the car with aircon running, on low fan. We set the Tesla to "Camp Mode" so that it would keep power on for the camp fridge we have in the back seat. But, it seems we can't keep Camp Mode and Sentry Mode active at the same time 😞.

Charging:

Byron Bay seems pretty progressive. There are electric bikes (and non electric) everywhere. But there only seems to be one fast EV charger in town, at the library, and it was off line this morning when we tried to connect.

We only had 12% charge, so I wanted to top up before we left town.

Fortunately, according PlugShare, there are one or two more banks of fast chargers “coming soon”. But that doesn’t help us today. Plugshare also showed some destination chargers in town. So, we parked under the local Woollies and plugged in. The Chargefox app didn’t seem to work, which was annoying, but we managed to just press the green button, plug in and charge for free. $7 to park for the 2.5 hours while we had breakfast. That got us to about 50% which was more than enough to get to our next stop today.