The Grey Nomads - General

Allyoops · Allyoops

Hi All I would like to hear about the difficulty and cost of installing a 240 volt inverter and portable solar panels on my 19 ft Grant tourer (built by Creative prior to liquidation of the company) The van has 2 x 100amp batteries which are now 4 years old and appear to be in reasonable condition. I would...

TheoViv · TheoViv

Could anyone suggest a good caravan park at Hervey bay, not too far from the beach that will take dogs please.

Eaglemax · Eaglemax

Burkes bakery Euroa. Wow. A good sausage roll has the right amount of onion and has some carrot. Esk bakery has some pearlers! And nice bread. Ive heard Yackandandah bakery has good ones. Where are your favourites?

briche · briche

We are about a month from leaving for a two year trip to WA and are in the process of downsizing the stuff to lcarry. One item that comes to mind is our high lift jack. We do not intend to get off road very often with dirt roads being the furthest from the seal that we will get. So the question is "do we leave it at...

SouthernComfort · SouthernComfort

Could anyone with intimate knowledge of the Adelaide Hills please give me a view on towing a van through & around there? I'm looking at approaching Adelaide from the north on A1/A17 to Glen Osmond, then on to Mt Barker via Stirling on M1 & B37. Any mega climbs or tricky spots to avoid? Will leave...

SouthernComfort · SouthernComfort

In case it's of interest to anyone, I'm prompted to post this since it was touched on in another thread today (there may have been other threads on this topic, so apologies if it duplicates): As we all know, many people are dumping the landline to go fully mobile, we did it about 2 years ago. Apart from eli...

Bas + Eve · Bas + Eve

Planning next stop. Where on the Adelaide river NT to camp and best place to see the crocs? Thanks again.

NormJean · NormJean

Suggestions would be appreciated for places to stop crossing the nullarbor. We are looking for a powered site and friendly travellers and hosts.

Darmc · Darmc

During a recent visit to the Barron River at Cairns, a couple of visitors said they had forgotten to bring bread to feed the ducks. Vets and Park rangers discourage this activity as it causes health and behaviour problems for the animals as well as, uneaten bread changes the water quality, causing blu...

Mike Harding · Mike Harding

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GME-MT410G-406MHZ-PERSONAL-LOCATING-BEACON-with-...

JeffRae · JeffRae

Hello All, The email notifications that arrive when there is a new reply to a topic used to include links that if clicked would take you to the topic. They are no longer clickable and I was wondering, is it just me or is this new to the forum? Cheers JeffRae

Megafishaholic · Megafishaholic

Hi All, Getting back to caravaning after a 30 year break, wow have caravans improved in the meantime. We developed a list of places along the area where we lived before and the areas we frequented that was friendly for stopping with a caravan. Like, this town has parallel parking close to a coffee shop o...

kiwijims · kiwijims

If any of you good People are racing West to see this year's Wildflowers, You can all take your time, there is very little to see at present, Here is an up-to-date report on where they are, or rather where they haven't appeared as yet, The report does say that late rains have helped, lets hope the rain has...

Eaglemax · Eaglemax

A day stop at an RV park main street Beggenden Queensland (inland from Maryborough, has found us at the bakery. The best pies and sausage roll I've ever tasted. A local lady told me people travel from Rockhampton to buy them. Great little town. Where have you had your best pie taste?

marydoll · marydoll

hi guys can't find my previous post so will try again . We have booked a motorhome to travel around Tassie from 15 - 31 st Dec would we need to book campsites ahead of time or can we wing it ? Not sure yet what we want to do and see , would like to do low cost / free camps if possible any advice appreciated

Ellen Werry · Ellen Werry

can anybody explain how the water tank swith is set up to show both tanks.....baz is confused after water troubles on the Oodnadatta track a few weeks ago

Weevil · Weevil

http://veteranretreat.tripod.com/images/Meentheena2014.pdf

Ubif · Ubif

Well my wife and I have been campers all our life. but now have a van and joined this site for information and have found a lot. Here we go I read as many of the posts as I could find then followed advise and lit wick !!!. no bang so this is what I ended up with. Thanks for all the help and advise regards Mark

Splottboy · Splottboy

Hi, I am having a problem playing music or podcasts from my LG Android phone through a USB in our 3 year old Fiat Ducato Motorhome . Can anyone help ? thanks.

Cowboy7307 · Cowboy7307

Just had an automated phone call from Centerlink so it said telling my wife her pension will be stopped is she does not reply to the emails that have not arrived, or press button 1 on the phone,

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Locate budget inverterl solar system on caravan (Preview) Hi All I would like to hear about the difficulty and cost of installing a 240 volt inverter and portable solar panels on my 19 ft Grant tourer (built by Creative prior to liquidation of the company) The van has 2 x 100amp batteries which are now 4 years old and appear to be in reasonable condition. I would...	Allyoops	9	818	10:19 PM Jul 22, 2017 by C00P
	Dog friendly caravan park at Hervey Bay (Preview) Could anyone suggest a good caravan park at Hervey bay, not too far from the beach that will take dogs please.	TheoViv	5	1756	09:30 PM Jul 22, 2017 by Cruising Cruze
	The best sausage rolls ever (Preview) Burkes bakery Euroa. Wow. A good sausage roll has the right amount of onion and has some carrot. Esk bakery has some pearlers! And nice bread. Ive heard Yackandandah bakery has good ones. Where are your favourites?	Eaglemax	10	1202	08:16 PM Jul 22, 2017 by snap1946
	Preparing to leave for WA (Preview) We are about a month from leaving for a two year trip to WA and are in the process of downsizing the stuff to lcarry. One item that comes to mind is our high lift jack. We do not intend to get off road very often with dirt roads being the furthest from the seal that we will get. So the question is "do we leave it at...	briche	12	760	04:25 PM Jul 22, 2017 by blaze
	Adelaide hills with caravan (Preview) Could anyone with intimate knowledge of the Adelaide Hills please give me a view on towing a van through & around there? I'm looking at approaching Adelaide from the north on A1/A17 to Glen Osmond, then on to Mt Barker via Stirling on M1 & B37. Any mega climbs or tricky spots to avoid? Will leave...	SouthernComfort	6	1579	04:04 PM Jul 22, 2017 by SouthernComfort
	Save big on phone costs (Preview) In case it's of interest to anyone, I'm prompted to post this since it was touched on in another thread today (there may have been other threads on this topic, so apologies if it duplicates): As we all know, many people are dumping the landline to go fully mobile, we did it about 2 years ago. Apart from eli...	SouthernComfort	10	1032	11:05 AM Jul 22, 2017 by macka17
	Adelaide River (Preview) Planning next stop. Where on the Adelaide river NT to camp and best place to see the crocs? Thanks again.	Bas + Eve	2	783	10:38 AM Jul 22, 2017 by peacewalker2
	The nullarbor trip (Preview) Suggestions would be appreciated for places to stop crossing the nullarbor. We are looking for a powered site and friendly travellers and hosts.	NormJean	10	1552	08:27 PM Jul 21, 2017 by Cmate
	Feeding wildlife bread (Preview) During a recent visit to the Barron River at Cairns, a couple of visitors said they had forgotten to bring bread to feed the ducks. Vets and Park rangers discourage this activity as it causes health and behaviour problems for the animals as well as, uneaten bread changes the water quality, causing blu...	Darmc	11	780	05:06 PM Jul 21, 2017 by Dunmowin
	Spot Messenger v PLB (Preview) http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GME-MT410G-406MHZ-PERSONAL-LOCATING-BEACON-with-...	Mike Harding	9	1044	02:25 PM Jul 21, 2017 by Mike Harding
	Email notification of posts in topic (Preview) Hello All, The email notifications that arrive when there is a new reply to a topic used to include links that if clicked would take you to the topic. They are no longer clickable and I was wondering, is it just me or is this new to the forum? Cheers JeffRae	JeffRae	7	658	12:29 PM Jul 21, 2017 by JeffRae
	Caravan Friendly stops (Preview) Hi All, Getting back to caravaning after a 30 year break, wow have caravans improved in the meantime. We developed a list of places along the area where we lived before and the areas we frequented that was friendly for stopping with a caravan. Like, this town has parallel parking close to a coffee shop o...	Megafishaholic	11	1147	10:22 AM Jul 21, 2017 by brickies
	A very slow start to W.A. Wildflower Season.... (Preview) If any of you good People are racing West to see this year's Wildflowers, You can all take your time, there is very little to see at present, Here is an up-to-date report on where they are, or rather where they haven't appeared as yet, The report does say that late rains have helped, lets hope the rain has...	kiwijims	4	960	10:02 AM Jul 21, 2017 by sufil
	Best pies in Oz? ( 1 2 ) (Preview) A day stop at an RV park main street Beggenden Queensland (inland from Maryborough, has found us at the bakery. The best pies and sausage roll I've ever tasted. A local lady told me people travel from Rockhampton to buy them. Great little town. Where have you had your best pie taste?	Eaglemax	39	2062	09:54 AM Jul 21, 2017 by Cupie
	Xmas in Tassie (Preview) hi guys can't find my previous post so will try again . We have booked a motorhome to travel around Tassie from 15 - 31 st Dec would we need to book campsites ahead of time or can we wing it ? Not sure yet what we want to do and see , would like to do low cost / free camps if possible any advice appreciated	marydoll	14	987	09:18 AM Jul 21, 2017 by RosieW
	Jayco discovery water tank selector switch (Preview) can anybody explain how the water tank swith is set up to show both tanks.....baz is confused after water troubles on the Oodnadatta track a few weeks ago	Ellen Werry	1	1803	10:46 PM Jul 20, 2017 by Warren-Pat_01
	Serving and Ex Serving Veterans and Emergency Services Veterans Retreat in WA (Preview) http://veteranretreat.tripod.com/images/Meentheena2014.pdf	Weevil	1	586	07:08 PM Jul 20, 2017 by Cruising Cruze
	I joined this forum to get Knowlege (Preview) Well my wife and I have been campers all our life. but now have a van and joined this site for information and have found a lot. Here we go I read as many of the posts as I could find then followed advise and lit wick !!!. no bang so this is what I ended up with. Thanks for all the help and advise regards Mark	Ubif	9	1271	04:48 PM Jul 20, 2017 by Ubif
	PLAYING MUSIC FROM A ANDROID PHONES ON USB IN A FIAT DUCATO (Preview) Hi, I am having a problem playing music or podcasts from my LG Android phone through a USB in our 3 year old Fiat Ducato Motorhome . Can anyone help ? thanks.	Splottboy	6	1704	02:36 PM Jul 20, 2017 by Splottboy
	scam doing the rounds (Preview) Just had an automated phone call from Centerlink so it said telling my wife her pension will be stopped is she does not reply to the emails that have not arrived, or press button 1 on the phone,	Cowboy7307	8	1032	10:05 AM Jul 20, 2017 by PeterD
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