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Badgers Caravan Park Reports downgraded.
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I believe that Badgers was a welcome tool for travellers to use, giving an opportunity to envisage some what lays ahead and correspondingly an asset to well run parks. It may still be there but buried in another site. Suspicious of intervention by those that could not stand criticism. I was told once...
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A meeting in Townsville
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We have had a great day in Townsville today with a true gentleman of the road Dougwe! .Doug showed us around parts of townsville that we could not have found in the motorhome. Hazel and I can't thank him enough. it has been a great day with great company and a new friend.
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Poppy sore eye
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Just like Drop Bears?
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Hi ... Just picked this up on Kayaking "Paddle News".Looks like the USA has little known risks perhaps not dissimilar to our Drop Bears http://www.paddling.net/articles/feature.html?show=60&utm_source=email_newsletter&utm_medium=emailhope the link works......
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Cupie
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keeping in touch
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Hi everyone Just wondering how everyone keeps in touch with family at home? Planning on hitting the road as soon as we sell the house so was wondering to buy new laptop or iPad want to be able to Skype the grandkids (we are not popular). We also want to be able to keep records of where we have been and get maps...
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full annexe - new rules
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Hi, Just went to look at new and secondhand vans today and got told the new rules are: if you have a fridge, hot water, or gas on the side of the van where the annexe is you can no longer enclose the annexe with canvas sides. what will happen to the canvas making businesses? they have vans like this for sa...
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the rocket
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Broome
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We are in Broome - at Broome's Gateway CP - nice place - a bit different to normal CP's - no power! Have water, and the place is run on solar panels - $30 per night - which is cheap up here - has all other things needed - ablution blocks are individual shower/toilet units, plenty of room (shower with a frie...
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Today is the day
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Just wanted to shout it from the rooftops, I have been married to this wonderful woman for 38 years today, love you forever!!
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Poppy sore eye
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Road conditions/Hughenden/Winton/Longreach
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Hi, am wanting some information from anyone who has gone from Hughenden to Winton via Kennedy Developement Road, then from there to Longreach via Landsborough Hwy then along the Caprico Hwy. as to road conditions.your feedback would be appreciated -- Edited by Seaeagle on Thursday 26th of June 20...
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Caravan park owner venting ,not good
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this letter was in the local paper for Monto in QLD this was lifted from FBWHAT CAN WE SAY !We are not often found wanting for words but we are flabbergasted at this full page advertisement the Central and North Burnett Times.Never in the Freedom of Choice camping debate have we ever seen such tactics us...
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Fridge and Stove
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Hi folks just a question, i am tossing up between having full stove or full fridge i think you need the full fridge but dose any one use there Oven. Cheers Chris
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Smithy
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Itinerants
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Can I declare or organise my Wife & I to be itinerants, while traveling full time around Australia in our caravan. We do not own a home & we sold all our furniture. Also we will have a Qld mailing service as our postal address.
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trij217365
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Why is it so wth a passport ?
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Upon going to Vanuatu 8 times in 5 years looking at my passport the customs guy just open any page to stamp it ? My passport was current from Janurary 1990 till janurary 2000 looking in it is like a maze to find the departer stanp from Brisbane inter airport to Port Vila for each trip I did But its worth a tri...
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WOMBAT HAS BEEN KNIGHTED
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Ooops, that should be Mastered and not only that Master of "Mischief" Well done mate. I might be nice to ya this week. I did put a similar topic in i Digress but hey you know me and besides it is worth mentioning twice.
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Just wanting to say Hello
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I am just a new member of this site and would like to just say hello to all the other grey nomads out there, as I have already met a few on the road and where I am currently staying at Inskip Point. I will be here for a while as I have blown the clutch in the bus as I came through Gympie a couple of weeks ago, and am st...
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Hehr screen door
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I just fitted a Roamsafe security screen door to the motorhome. Subsequently I want to sell the old Hehr screen door from the Winnebago but I cannot find any for sale to get an idea of what it is worth. Anybody have experience with buying or selling one?
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On the road again
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Finally on the road again after nearly a year. Having no home for that long was not good. Have had our new home for two weeks now. We have finally found some warm weather in Emerald Queensland.
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wanderers
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Corrugated roads... love them or hate them?
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Today we travelled over about 100 k's of dirt road, mostly corrugated, several dips, (one with lotsa water, which I diligently walked through), and I never want to feel so shaken and rattled again! My arthritis hates all the vibrations, so I'm on the pain-killers this evening. Yes, Mr D had lowered th...
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Your opinions on toyota coasters pre 1990
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Hi I am thinking of buying a Toyota coaster, I have been travelling on and off in a Hiace for years and now find I need to live permanently in something for a few years. So I need something bigger. Funds will be tight so it will probably need to be pre 1990. Does any one have any thoughts on diesel as compare...
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New Windows 8
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We have just purchased a new laptop computer and it is loaded up with the new Windows 8. I am finding it almost impossible to navigate around. Is it just me or are others having problems with the new operating system? Cheers Pete
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daily site fees plus electricity
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just rang a few parks in and around Gladstone to book in. Got told by one of them the site is per night plus site has their own electricity meter and you pay for that on top of daily rate. They wonder why people free camp. I am quite happy to pay a reasonable amount but this is only going to make me free ca...
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