In the morning we in deed woke up with rain hitting the tent. At some point it stopped, so we broke up camp had a quick ‘brekkie’ and left. When we got phone signal back, Mo got a message from Mark, from just 15 minutes before (saved by the rain). The power went out.
We had a call and with the help of Marc I did some first trouble shooting. The main breaker had blown, also the earth breaker and the utility room break where out. As soon as the last one was put back up it would blow again, so I suspected the heater. Which was confirmed by unplugging it and then the breaker held. It was just after midnight on a Sunday. Not the ideal time for something like this to happen.
I instructed Marc to call with the alarm number of the home insurance. They found an electrician, but it seemed he preferred to stay in his bed. Meanwhile we had started to drive and when a bit of a traffic jam formed, we figured we might as well stop for coffee and some arranging. I went over the graphs of the heater and concluded the heater itself was not broken, it just had a short circuit in the mains wiring. Marc had a first look, but did not find anything suspicious.
I wrote an email to Pelltech explaining the problem and that was about as much as could be done from here. As the place we had a drink was nice we also had lunch there and went over options for the next camping place, a good internet connection was a first priority. We had two options, so we checked the weather forecast and decided to go for an organized camp site.
Luckily it was after season, so there was space. We had dinner and when to bed. At that point Marc let us know someone from Pelltech had stopped by and fixed the problem. And as a truly Estonian company they had not replied to the email. We should be able to have a decent night knowing the heater was fixed.
But somewhere during the night we both where awake and after some tossing and turning we decided to have a walk on the beach. When we found the way to the beach and pointed the flash light at the sign there was a bit of a scare, two big yellow eyes looked at us. There was an owl sitting on the sign. I quickly got my phone and got a decent picture. When we walked pasted we saw how the urban legend started that an owl can turn its head 360 degrees, as it kept staring at us.
At the beach we noticed is was pretty dark due to the clouds, so we collected some sea weed and formed a line at the entrance of the beach to make sure we could find it back. After about half an hour we went back to the tent and just in time we got in as the first drops fell on the tent. By morning is was really poring.
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