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On the road again.
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After a small test trip away we are departing this morning for approx 3 months cruise on coastal and country QLD. We have a blue BT50 towing a Kingdom Kensington van. If you see us parked up please drop in for a brew or coldie. Cheers.
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History of Henry Ford's Factory
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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=031f4fc2e6&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r8634263726692188828&th=16bde5d4728db581&view=att&disp=inline&real...
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Travel Videos
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I have been an occasional contributor to this forum over the years, but last year our advancing years caught up with us and we had to hang up the keys. We accumulated a lot of home movies of our travels. I have taken short clips from some of them to put together videos that I hope others will find of inter...
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Annexe floor matting
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Hi All, just wanting to know peoples thoughts on annexe matting? the matting we have at the moment is green Air Weave type and we are replacing it as we have bigger van now and was wondering what the Camec grey weave type is like and if it was better than the Air Weave ?? any thoughts would be appreciated C...
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Spikes found in national park be aware Oberon
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Public Safety Warning Tyre spikes located and causing damage in State Forests. ***Editor's Note: some of the images depicted in this post were obtained from open sources online. *** Police have received a number of reports of homemade tyre spikes being found on public roads within Vulcan and Gur...
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Fire at Adele Grove
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https://www.facebook.com/ABCNorthWestQLD/videos/442125959969518/
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mini washing machine
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We are thinking of purchasing a mini washing machine for carrying with us as we travel around in our caravan. Not necessarily installed but one capable of washing and spinning. We would appreciate member's experience with these machines and the pros and cons.
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Do many people here use Wikicamps?
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I've been using wikicamps for about 18 mths and love it. I use it almost daily to plan my trip. I find the comments amusing because, like people, there are huge variations of the comments posted. Comments with vary from a near hell-like experiences to others stating its being in heaven - all on the sam...
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Bull Attack
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Came across this massive bull stuck in a cattle grid. The grid was blocked off for about an hour and every now and then the bull had a big struggle to get out before collapsing again. It was bleeding form the nose, mouth, and legs. A fella came along and was standing near the grate when the bull got himself f...
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Overweight caravan Accident, now court case
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https://magazine.rvdaily.com.au/en_US/14476/208710/caravan_crash_tragedy.html-- Edited by Craig1 on Thursday 4th of July 2019 09:09:14...
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2019 The Year Of Outback Tourism.
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Not too long ago the QLD government announced that they were allocating $3,000,000 to encourage visitors to Outback QLD this winter. A few months ago they had good rain over a large part of the area. 2019 has now been renamed the year of the bushfly plague. In most of the places that we have visited over t...
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Caravan parks are the worst option
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I'm not a fan of staying at caravan parks but sometimes you just have no other choice but to use their facilities. Recently I had a call at 10:10 to remind me that checkout time was 10am and could I please come to the office to pay the additional nights rent. I was already 30 mins down the road so I asked...
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Do you have a backup plan?
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Apparently Australia's diesel reserves are only good for 21 days should supply from overseas be interrupted. This started me thinking about the "what if". What if I am at the other side of the country and the proverbial hits the fan and fuel is rationed? How will I cope with that? I have sufficient fuel...
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Breakaway system problem
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Hi all I am having some technical issues with my breakaway system, just changed battery, test button wont do anything unless I have a charger connected to the external charge ports. Appreciate any help Breeza
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mazda t3500
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hello all, looking at buying a Mazda T3500 (maybe) Can someone with experience with these answer a few questions for me? Can you cruise comfortably at the speed limit and what are fuel use figures like at this speed also fuel use like at my preferred speed of 80? Drive-ability at that speed? Anything el...
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SUV DOORSTEP video review. that doorstep thing you've seen on face book
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Hey all, you've probably seen these dohickeys floating around on social media of late. they seem to be everywhere. Now I know you can't use this on your van but I figure most of you are towing with a 4wd of some sort and would probably spend as much time up on the roof as I do.You might even have ducks d...
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Caravan Park Logic
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Gday, For the second time in 6 weeks ourselves and two other couples have buzzed off for 5 nights but not much further than 150 kays from our Echuca base.The last trip being an extended silo run in the West region. Our last weeks adventure took us to stay at Corowa,Wangaratta and Benalla .We prebooked ea...
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Weight distribution hitches
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Do caravanners out there recommend the use of weight distribution hitches when attaching caravans to your Y62 (2018 model).The van I am having made has a GVM of 3.5 t (probably won't weigh that much when loaded) and my Y62 has had airbags fitted. Does the front axle weight of the Y62 (1650 kg) mean that w...
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Cost of diesel
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Diesel at Undara QLD is $1.98 Litre !!! However down the road at Mt Garnett, it was $1.38 Litre. The most expensive?? and the cheapest?? fuel in Qld within 100 k.s of each other. Joe. -- Edited by Farmhat on Saturday 29th of June 2019 05:34:16 PM
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Diesel heater fuel consumption
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we've had our eberspecher diesel heater in the van for near on 6 years now and we've used it a lot , its a 2.2kw unit and its in our 23'6 van , I'm looking to see if the fuel consumption is on par with others in a similar setup. If I turn it on around 5.00pm and run it at say 18 - 20 degrees till late around 11.00pm a...
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