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.. 2011 Mareeba Rodeo is done an' Dusted !!
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Hi folks .. well .. just 12 months ago I experienced the hospitality of Far Nth Qld for the first time, and it brought me back again .. just love it here !! Another successful Rodeo has come and gone .. the attendance figures were down on the previous years but unless you were told that, you probably wouldn...
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HOUSE SITTING
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We have been offered a house sitting job about 40ks west of Millmeran Qld, but we aren't able to do this one. Is anyone out there interested, its very rural (in the bush) one dog and one cat to look after, no mains power all solar and may have to use the genny when the batteries run low, generally look after...
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Greetings and what can you tell me about Rig lengths etc
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We are Sue and Phil and we have just started the process of selling the farm in Wandin Victoria and hitting the road. We hope to leave by Easter 2012 or earlier if all goes well and have been planning the whole thing for a few months now. What a lot to go through to get started. Which caravan, what layout an...
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How things have changed . . .
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How have things changed since you were a kid? I don't mean the obvious, but something that really sticks in your memory. For example, as a kid, everyone in our neighbourhood knew everyone, from our house down to the next corner about 8 houses away, and around to the other side of that block, and most ni...
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GOODBYE DOUGIE
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Well, it seems we have lost yet another valued member of our forum. I had an email from Doug this afternoon and he has decided, everything considered, to delete his account with the grey nomads. He will be missed as his informative posts will also be missed. Thank you Doug for being here.
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Do you think the carbon tax will effect the Grey Nomads?????
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Will it be good or bad......
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when is agood time to take of
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hi all still pauring down with rain cold wet here in newlandsarm eastgippy lakes vic,heavy at times slippy in the back garden,unloaded my campervan have to wait awhile till weather gets better,daylight saving warm weather,i was abit down coming home from my 1st trip cos of the bad weather,glad i did...
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We didnt do the Gibb River Road
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...But we are probably in the minority!!! Yesterday we took the tent and camped overnight at Windjana Gorge, (Lovely place!) which is off the GRR. The campground was very crowded, mostly with camper-trailers with families. A few tents too, but very few day-trippers like us from Derby. Conversa...
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OVERTAKING SIGNS
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Hi All. We're thinking about the " DO NOT OVERTAKE TURNING VEHICLE " signs. I have checked on the legalaties in N.S.W. and are wondering who has them and why. We thought if you turn left and go into the adjacent lane to clear the corner and someone hits you ,your in the clear with these signs at...
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small caravans and wild weather
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They reckon more wild weather like we've just had. made me think about people in small caravans ? how do they cope ?
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RAIN RAIN
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We have had 150mil since 9am this morning. Will it never stop.
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feedback on AustraliaWide Annexes
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We are looking to buy an annexe from AustraliaWide Annexes and do it ourselves as we are out of the area to have it custom done...does anyone have any feedback at all on the company and the annexes???
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back home weather to bad
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hi all just got back from my 1st solo trip,drove along east coast into nsw overcast and rain of and on all the way to Eden caught abit of sun, stopped on wharf to check out fishing blowing a gail white caps did a quick u turn drove threw stopped the night at Narooma daliemany camp pk,good ammienities nic...
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Nurioopta SA until Tuesday 26th
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Just checking in ad to say that we are at Nurioopta Tourist park until next Tuesday. Barb and Darryl
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Long Weekend
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Our last long weekend until Christmas this weekend, being the show holiday for Cairns. We are off once again to the old Plantation caravan park and camping area at Bramston Beach. Leaving this afternoon and back on Sunday. If you are in the area call in for a cuppa - glass of dark - bottle of amber. ...
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WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
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Article in Cairns Post this morning. This could happen to anyone. Damm scary.Cairns woman, 65, killed by rock on Northern Territory highway Thursday, July 21, 2011© The Cairns Post TRAGEDY struck in a split second for a grey nomad couple from Cairns yesterday when a rock smashed through the w...
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Lake Eyre - Flights?
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We are currently planning our Sept Oct trip out of Brisbane & are considering a flight over Lake Eyre. Can you please help. What's best fixed or rotary wing aircraft? (I assume that rotary will only be available from Marree. Is that right?) Has anyone done the flight 1 or 2 days from Longreac...
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Huge Task
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I am hoping against hope that one of you may help me find a New Idler Bracket for a Toyota Coaster 1983 3b Diesel motor Cannot for love of money find one in Melbourne...I'm told by Toyota that these vehicles are all being wrecked in Qld. I have just had the Air conditioner done and the man tells me I nee...
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BAD WEATHER
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I hope if there are any of our forum members in the Southern Highlands area that they have battened down the hatches. Snowing in Bowral at the moment and temperature hovering around the degree mark. It's only 7 degrees here in Ulladulla with rain straight off the snowfields and almost horizontal at t...
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JUST CHECKING IN
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Just letting all my friends know that I am still around, currently housesitting at Coochin near boonah until next tuesday (no internet reception) and then over to Kalbar for a week, after that back to my sons place at Jimboomba for a week and then off to Tara for the camel races.
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