Beginning our Sydney to Melbourne return leg late yesterday, we only made it to Gerroa…

…NSW for the night. We stayed in a nice cabin by the creek in the Discovery Park Gerroa.

Toast and cereal for brekky. We poured a thermos of tea for Tom and then set out in search of coffee for Francis.

We headed for Silos Estate, just south of Berry, since it has Tesla Superchargers and serves coffee. We are heading south, but Silos Estate is on the north heading side of the highway. The Tesla/Google navigation had us doing a loop on the overpass, but it turns out we could have just turned right into the estate.

Silos is on a beautiful outlook. We parked, plugged in and walked over to get coffee. But they don’t open until lunch time! 😫. Customers have been down since Covid, but they hope to expand hours again.

So, we hopped back in the car and drove off, using a U turn bay in the highway to head south again.

Charging:

We haven’t charged since we left Erina yesterday. We included a message in our on-line booking at the park last night to ask if we could plug into a power point. We didn’t get a reply, and we arrived after the office had closed, so we didn’t connect.

We had hoped to charge while getting coffee at Silos Estate, but only connected for the four minutes it took us to find out that there was no coffee. Coffee takes priority over car fuel. PlugShare showed that the next south bound fast charger is in Batemans Bay, about 135km away. The Tesla navigation predicted we would arrive with 7% charge. “No worries”, I said. The guy next to us in the Cupra EV wasn’t so sure. I told him we had previously arrived in Batemans Bay with 4%, so this was fine.

Of course, we had lots of opportunities to charge so far, passing many fast chargers, including this one in Berry. But we prefer to only charge while parked for some other reason.