We put a fair amount of research into what sort of stove, heater and hot water system we wanted, we were not too keen on going with gas simply because we do not know where in the world we will end up and you just can’t get gas everywhere (so I have heard anyway), diesel just seemed easier because we already have diesel on board.

We ended up going with Webasto products as they seem to have a good wrap in any reviews I have read, and there is really not much out there anyway in the diesel cooktop market.

The cook top is a Webasto Diesel Cooker X100, it is very sleek and low profile being only a sheet of black glass on the bench, so is super easy to keep clean, it has a very low fuel consumption of between 0.09 and 0.19 litres per hour.

So if there was ever any doubt as to the strength of MonoPan the material we have used to build the tuck, I think we can now put them to rest.

Before we took off on our last trip Peter came up with the idea of building some wheel levels for the truck out of some left over MonoPan. He used increasingly shorter pieces of Monopan and welded them together with his poly welder. He then welded a piece on each side so they look nice and neat.

They have been a great success, we have used them on the road, on sand and on dirt and they are fantastic.

After being used many many times they are still going strong. 

“Bremer Bay a long way to go for nothing”

I had heard so much about Bremer Bay and how beautiful it is, so had high hopes that were absolutely crushed.  The caravan parks here look really quite upmarket, very clean and nice green grass, certainly some of the best I have seen but if you are after somewhere to do a bit of beach camping forget it.