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Towing with a Jimny
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Hi Travellers, Just wondering if anyone has any feedback on towing a baby caravan, such as a Little Guy, with a Suzuki Jimny ? According to specs, the Jimny will do it comfortably. I'm planning a trip round northern NSW, nothing too scary, first time out and going it alone. I don't want everything and th...
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Now a full-time Nomad
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Woohooo, I'm now on the road full time (apart from a short break over Christmas/New Year with family in Brisbane). However, excitement is tinged with sadness at leaving friends Sue and her son Tom, and Gayle (Sheba) in Cawarral, and also the loss of my friend Peter (Ontos45) a couple of weeks ago to COP...
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Rocky's little wander...
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Gday... Hope the attached ramblings are interesting to some. OH ... and season's greetings. cheers - John
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A Flag
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I have said this before and I need to say it again. We need a Grey Nomad flag. In a quick check of this forum, I found suggestions for a flag as early as 2012. I raised this issue about a year ago, and got a response from Cindy advising that there were problems with the proposed supplier and alternatives we...
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Tamworth Country & Western Week
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Just a "heads up" for anyone interested, Quirindi Caravan Park, 45 min from Tamworth has vacancies over the Tamworth week.
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Fishing around Australi
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Just a quick query.If you are traveling around Australia. You are a self funded retiree and you like fishing. Do you have to have a licence from every state. PLEASE tell me there's a loophole that you know about and you don't. Dave
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Diesel (Newell Highway-Peak Hill)
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Diesel at Peak Hill between Parkes and Dubbo on the Newell Highway is -99c a litre. Word has it that an agent for "Caltex" is purchasing the site with the intention to set up a major road house. Caltex/Vortex fuels to be sold with all the add ons. Current diesel prices reflect their intention...
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victorian weather alert
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http://www.9news.com.au/wild-weather/2015/12/19/14/21/severe-thunderstorm-warning-issued-for-parts-of-victoria-including-melbourne-horsham-and-warrnambool
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BLAZEAID. It's open again, in Grass Patch, WA.
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The tiny town of Grass Patch is about 60 Klms north of Esperance, WA. Right now it's the "nerve centre" of operations to help repair many klms of burnt out farms and farminging fences. My partner, Jennifer, and I worked in Blazeaid for 18 months in Qld; Vic. and NSW before coming over to WA. If...
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Took the plunge- bought new ute
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Took the plunge, after blowing two gboxes on the courier @ $2200 each and bought a 2011 dmax. Long range tank, and ARB suspension, dualbattery seup and only 44000 klms. Morepower, less fuel consumption.$10000 and traded in the courier. I think it was a good deal. Will post how in goes. Bill -- Edited by...
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Todd Flood
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Todd River in flood Wow that will certainly give the area a good clean up which is long over due . Pity the inland will now be littered with tonnes of beer cans and beer wrappers.
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Suicide Scooters
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I wonder if us pensioners started to carry out terrorist attacks, how much would they pay us extra to deradicalize?
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Attaching Break-away cable to tow vehicle
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http://www.candm.com.au/the-simple-breakaway-cable-mistake-so-many-make/?mc_cid=cd12dd86d7&mc_eid=9be2872b40I put this in General, rather than Techie's or Tips & Ideas as I f...
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Drinking water hose on a retractable reel
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Does anyone have any experience of these and also who supplies them. Most of the reels I have seen come with a preloaded hose not suitable for drinking. Any help would be appreciated. keith
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Tourists to be warned as South Australia's extreme heat continues
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/ses-warns-international-visitors-to-adelaide-of-extreme-heat/7032122Adelaide
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Eucla telegraph station. WA & SA
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I have crossed the Nullabor Plain many times over the last 40 plus years. At least a dozen times I have stopped to have a look at the Eucla Telegraph Station. Like many travellers, I have stood there only to see a chimney sticking out of the sand on the last remaining building. "THE" DICK SMITH...
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Another Tip
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We have a Sky Light in between our 2 single beds, and in summer that early morning sun light is Dazzling at 5 and 6 am. So I made up a quick solution which takes only a second or 2 to give us our darkness. A piece of cardboard with 4 bits Velcro and I leave it on my pillow so I don't forget to put it in place.
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Christmas is different thing to different people...
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Gday... Some thoughts I received from a friend last night to think about as we enter the holiday season. It is important to remember that not everyone is looking forward to Christmas. Some of us are not surrounded by large wonderful families. Some of us have problems during the holidays and are overc...
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Free Camps in SE QLD now attract fees...
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Gday... Travellers not happy with rest area permit system Story and Photo: Dennis Amor CARAVANNERS have been caught by surprise after a Queensland council introduced a new permit system to stay on once-free overnight rest areas serving the state's major highway. Fraser Coast Regional Council ha...
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Road condition Dalby to Meanderra
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Has anybody travelled the road from Dalby to Meanderra this year? I understand there is some unsealed sections that can be very rough! Any information will be appreciated, our van doesn't do unsealed roads very well. Merry Christmas to all Peter M
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