Furniture-trying at Fantastic Furniture, Rockhampton
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After three days in and around Yeppoon, we headed back inland to Rockhampton. We parked next to the library and grabbed lunch and a coffee at The Two Professors cafe.
We found Fantastic Furniture to try out some lounge options, much to the amusement of other customers. The lounge is not for the Tesla, but for our soon to be new home in Emerald, Victoria. Not enough boot space to transport it from here, though 😉.
Next, Capricorn Caves.
Charging
Three days ago we arrived in Yeppoon, with 70% battery charge. There was nowhere in Yeppoon to charge. After a few days trips, sentry mode etc, we left Yeppoon with 20%, arriving in Rockhampton with 9%, (37km) as predicted by the Tesla’s navigation.
We turned off the air con fan for the rear, which was probably triggered by the luggage weight on the back seats.
The Tesla only shows Tesla branded chargers en-route, and warns if it can’t find any. There are no Tesla superchargers in far North Queensland, yet. But we can type in a town’s name and “charge” to navigate to other branded chargers. That took us to the Yurika/QESH/Chargefox charger next to the library, where we have been on previous trips. We had just enough time for lunch by the time the charging reached 97%.
We found Tesla GPS navigators preference for Teslas a nuisance when it once decided to take us on a longer route between Western Sydney and Dubbo via a Tesla Supercharger when there was a good non-Tesla charger available in Lithgow. It was also a nuisance in Tasmania where there is only one Tesla Supercharger in the state and in Western NSW that has no Tesla Superchargers.
I have previously used PlugShare to find a charger, then send it to the iPhone Maps app, then share it with the Tesla. Oddly, the PlugShare app doesn’t facilitate sharing directly to the Tesla. That’s a lot of switching, and often results in only an approximate street address.
We turn off “Trip Planner” in the Tesla navigation settings when we don’t want it to send us to Tesla Superchargers, especially up in North Queensland, where there aren’t any.
I reckon you've accidentally hit rear seat air conditioner because even when we have 3 adults in the back it does not automatically turn on, it's a feature you have to turn on and off each time 🤷🏼♀️
We got a 3 seat recliner and a stand alone one seat recliner, we are getting old now 🤣