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Days end
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Another nice sunset Mulwala NSW.
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water supply
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Hi folks, we hope to be off by years end, stilll gathering info. Where do travellers usually fill up with fresh water? Do petrol stations allow it? .. where else.
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Jude and David
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lake elphinstone
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Hi everyone we are currently at lake elphinstone west of mackay very nice place (free camping) but not a lot of fish (a few redclaw) can anyone advise of any fishing options in the near vicinity as am reluctant to leave such a beautiful setting regards
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peter and rose
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Modifications to my camper
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I've posted before about my son modifying Gypsy to mount the fridge on the draw bar. So here she is! He had to stregthen the draw bar, make the box to suit, and attach the bracket for the gas bottle which will run the fridge when I'm stopped. He also added a crate to carry the small gas bottle, guy ropes...
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Esmeralda
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I got a phone call from the insurance company today telling me that they had approved the claims for Esmeralda's repairs. The man told me that they had almost decided to write her off!!!! The repairer is going to remove the awning altogether (I will use the annexe which looks like it has never been us...
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a nice place to stay
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d/day pple. this week i am moving from cairns up to lake tinaro. spent 2 days there last week camping , taking the van this time ,staying a month first up think mabe more, park managment are realy freindly and the park is very neat. had pancakes and coffee thurs morning met (free) par...
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G'day from the high seas!!
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G'day me hardies... Milo here just checking in to see if your all still here.. Dad and I are having a great time on the Pacific Jewel, she is a grand ship! And you just about need a gps to find your way around it, first day on the sea i was sea sick as much as 75% of passengers and crew were, very rough seas but i...
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failed PLBs
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A friend of mine is paddling around Aust. He started last year at Broome & keeping Aust on his left has arrived at Nhulunbuy, on the NW tip of the Gulf of Carpentaria on his way to Darwin in a couple of weeks, (you could follow him on Google, Stewart Trueman around Australia). The purpose of this post i...
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chris & terry
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Need Help Asap
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A few weeks back a Caravan park owner advertised on our site on the East Coast of NSW $20 powered for grey Nomads The Ladies name was Lyn I think can't remember the bloke's name Between Port Macquire and Coffs Harbour i think Pets were allower Special rates being off season...Can anybody help me as...
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How much to take
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Happy vanning to all. We are collecting our bits and pieces for our van but with limited storage there is always that question "how much to take". With regards to sheets and towels etc. as we have seperate beds just wondering how many of each other people think is enough for say a 2 months tr...
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Map it!!!!!
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Wouldn't it be interesting if we could have a big map of Australia which we could all log our current positions into!!!!!
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pricey43
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can someone help photo comp
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Photo up loading was working I have tried for 2 days now to upload more photos but it will not upload anymore can someone advice me what to do.
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davkar
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The first step in the upgrade!!!
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Well we have taken posession of our 100 series landcruiser. Now we have to find some money for the van upgrade and to add a few more extras to the cruiser. Pretty happy with our find. The car yard had 4 more people return to put down a deposit in the next 24 hours and he even had to remove it from the lot becau...
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Heading off
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My wife Shirls and I went to Mildura with our dogs a couple of weeks ago It did'nt work....Shirls is going too QLD in Sept with a Girl friend and I am Heading off next Month to Northern NSW to rough it....I'll be a Solo Nomads for awhile...I intend to visit some of the spots you nice people have suggeste...
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5 sleeps and we are off....
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Five more sleeps and we are off again,, up to Bowen, out to Mt Isa, down to Longreach, Charlieville, then Chinchilla, and finally home to the Sunny coast,,,,all in four weeks, we are excited to be back on the road, and looking forward to meeting lots of nomads out there....
Wishing you all lots of happy...
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Hot Off The Press Wee Waa/ Narrabri.
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The other half went to Wee Waa/Narrabri for the weekend camping. He asked me to tell all that there were no mice, it was not cold, no frost at all. He slept in his sway with just one blanket. Watson's Bakehouse is still not opened on Sundays though, which was a big disappointment for them. It had become a ri...
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Perth to Darwin
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Just found out about this site via a friend downunder. Grey Nomads Huh! We are in that brigade. More power too us. We are a couple of Scots. Flying to Perth WA and should be there by the end of Feb 2012. Plan to drive to Darwin via the coast road. Would love to hear from other nomadic followers of itineraries...
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Answering PM's
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In the past I have sent helpful pm's to new members in answer to a query they have had either to elaborate on a reply or give more info to them without disrupting the thread. Some answer, some don't, to those that do I say thank you, for the ones that don't I am not sure if they just don't know how to but I have se...
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camp heating
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ok i maybe getting old ok i've got that out of the way,, i'm looking for some sort of camp heating to use when i go away and it's a bit cool, ok yes i know i can light a fire when i;m free camping which i'll be doing at lake gilles on the long weekend, but we have a camper trailer and oztent that we use, don't have a...
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Magpies!
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May I ask if there are any Collingwood Fans out there..AS I have been wanting too ask that for Yonks......(Lets not be rude either because we are nice people))
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