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Depth of water at Gympie
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My partner went from Hervey Bay to Brisbane today.Luckily she got through OK. I just checked out the Qld Alert site a few minutes ago.The Bruce Highway through Gympie is closed at Deep creek with water over the road. I know the bridge there and normally it's around 50'-60' down to the creek. That's deep...
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Sold Our Van
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Finally sold our Jayco Hawk to a lovely couple reasonably local. We put it in Gumtree about two weeks ago, had a few tyre kickers and then a lovely couple rang to look and ended up taking her for us. I told them about this forum so hopefully they join. Also gave them our Camps 5 as they had heard of the book but...
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Canberra Nomad Meetings
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Over the last couple of weeks, Chi Chi (Mel) and I have had the pleasure of meeting up with some other "Grey" Nomads. Bill12 called in for a cuppa, having driven many k's out of his way enroute to Greens Lake; and today we met rrox (Richard and Felicity) at the Botanic Gardens coffee shop. New f...
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What to call a new dog
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Some friends of ours have just bought themselves a new dog, and asked for suggestions with names. We suggested they call it "Dick". (see photo) Daryl & Sylvie
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where can i find a list of free camping sites
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can anyone help by river or sea would be good
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PENNYFARTHING RACES
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Anybody in Tassie for the Pennyfarthing races at Edith Vale tomorrow. If so where are you staying?
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van park
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anyone stayed at the granite gorge van park out fron mareeba ?
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We start our journey in August, where do you buy those do not over take turning vehicle sign? We live in brisbane
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Roll Call
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Apart from the ski boats on the Murray it is way to quiet here at Psyches Bend near Mildura. Just for a bit of fun, where is everyone tonight? Free camping? Caravan Park? House sitting? At home dreaming or planning?
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Hello everyone
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Hi to everyone from us (David and Cheryl) We are new to the forum but have been watching for a little while. We have decided to make the big jump and sell up and become full time nomads. Our decision was an easy one as the GLW (good lady wife) is not as well as she used to be. We have our house on the market, found...
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More rain
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It's been raining almost constantly in SEQ for the past couple of days. Cooroy is copping a beating, poor b.uggers. More than 214.8mm today alone. Gympie is on flood alert. The Mary River is ready to burst it's banks...again!
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How dangerous are Pythons??
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I don't think they are poisonous but can't they strangle things. My son in Biggenden arrived home tonight with the kids to find a 2 metre long python out the front of the house. The kids stayed in the car till he got rid of it. Scared it off to the neighbours who is away at the moment. He said there are heaps of...
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Japanese Air Raids On Australia in WW2
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For those who may be interested on the Anniversary of the Darwin Bombing; With 64 bombing raids on Darwin in WW2, there were more bombs dropped on Darwin than on Pearl Harbour. Other towns in WA and Queensland were also bombed, see the info on these further down the link; http://www.anzacday.org.au...
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ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR AGAIN;
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Yep, still having problems with this nett service so another new modem is comming, this one is to be turned off at any time. Catch up next week. JC.
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No helping some wombats
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Dont know if this is our wombat but was spotted in the northern suburbs of perth yesterday. Can only be descibed as rude, open displaying. I feel we do need some for of wombat controller (maybe a sharp knife).
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I'm here volunteering at The Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach!
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Hi All, Thanks Grey Nomads site, this is where I found the Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach call for volunteers which I followed up - and now I've been here a week! I'm assisting the Hall's Curator to catalogue the thousands and thousands of photos, memorabillia etc that wonderful Australian's gi...
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Im happy...
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Well, after 8 years my litte Road Runner, the mazda 2 has gotten regoe'd again!! yay!! and now has just done 65000 k's, any ways i also booked to see Joe Satriani, my favorite guitarist of all time, who I've seen several times in sydney, but this time booked for canberra, as its much easier to get to tha...
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More Telstra, watch them;
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We recently had another landline outage due to consistant wet weather, this has happened four times in the last 12 mths. So reported as usual , they set up a forward of incomming calls to the mobile at their expense. This last time I requested mobile calls during this outage to be charged at landline rat...
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I wish you enough....
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I got this in an email, thought it was too good not to share;Recently I overheard a Father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the Father said, 'I love you, and I wish you enough.' The daughter rep...
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Karratha Caravan Park
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Can anyone help me with advice on caravan parks in the Karratha area. We will be going there in a week of so, and there seems to be a shortage of caravan parks. I would welcome any suggestions in the area.
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