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BEWARE! The 'Greed Cancer' is infecting showgrounds too.
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After an enjoyable and rewarding tour of Northern Queensland, since April this year, we have started our tour in to the South East of Queensland. Our first stop in a show-ground was Redcliffe, our base during the EKKA, and very reasonably priced too, considering it's proximity to the EKKA. Powered s...
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Water Temperature at Boomi Artesian Pool
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Hi Could someone tell me what the temperature is at the Boomi Artesian Pool, and what is the town of Boomi like. We have previously stayed at Moree and been in the pools at the Gwyder caravan park and thought that we might give Boomi a try, we will be there the first couple of weeks in Sept. Cheers David
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Birdsville Track trash cleanup
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Watched on Channel 2 Landline a few minutes ago. A very interesting story about volunteers who go out yearly in a group to clean up the track. It was very well organised with camp kitchen, trailers for the rubbish and the proper OH&S clothing to protect from other traffic. They pick up some interes...
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Moving on
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Leaving Mt Suprise today for Ravenshoe where we will be until Monday and wIll then move on to Rocky Creek. Will leave there on the 25th for Cairns. Catching up with one of Cheryl's sisters and then leaving there on the 29th. Only one issue about that, we don't know where we are headed for, what a great prob...
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Long Tan day
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Today is the aniversary of the battle on Long Tan during the vietnam war, and the Long Tan cross , erected by 6 RAR, is on display at the War memourial in Canberra. I had a couple of mate who wer involved in this battle, and sad to say, they are both dead, one Frank Goedhart, drank himself to an early grave.G...
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We met at Green Lake
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We were camped at Green Lake, Vic for 9 days the weeks leadiing up to Easter & there were 2 other couples from Vic on their annual trip up to our sunny clime. I have lost their details but just wondering where they are at the moment.
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upgrading to V8 troupie
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Afternoon all. Thinking seriously of upgrading to 70 series Landcruiser GXL troupie. Has anyone out there any experience with one? Have a Navara kingcab at present and have loved convenience of the side and rear access of canopy and the room for fridge etc behind the front seats, thus keeping them d...
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Wodonga/Albury Caravan Show
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BORDER RV & CAMPING EXPO Wodonga RacecourseThis weekendThomas Mitchell Drv. Wodonga Friday 17th & Saturday 18th - 9:30 - 5:00 Sunday 19th - 9:30 - 4.00 Adults $10 Concession $8 Children under 15 Free. No pets permitted. I'll be present on the Oz Parks stand in the building just off the rear of...
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Looking for work heading up north
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Hi, peeps hows everyone going , We r great we left brisbane easter weekend an made it to gayndah where the picking season basicially just started and it is slowly coming to an end. We are wanting to head up north an work an travel to see the beautiful QLD, Is there anyone out there that knows what work is com...
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What can we do??
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We have had our Jayco Sterling now for 10 1/2 months. We are just about to put the van in for the fourth time to get the same warranty work done, "again", which occured to the van on the way home from being picked up from the Dealer in Brisbane. Warranty runs out in 1 and 1/2 months, what happens th...
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Grey Nomads (thats us) Focus of new safety strategy)
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-17/outback-safety-push-targets-grey-nomads/4204950?section=qld
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Wildflowers in Far North SA
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The foliage changes from the grey of the saltbush and blue bush, to the bright fresh greens of the acacia and other foliage. There aren't many trees up the Strezlecki Track, and most of the foliage is a whispy cream grass moving with the wind. There are wild flowers. The strong reds of the wild hops nor...
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van roof
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Has any one sealed the roof of there van to protect from leaks?? And if so what did you use
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Headed East
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After a week with Kiwi-as and NU-One we are headed back to Mareeba. We should be there by Monday. We had a great time with the shared mealtimes happening again. It was nice to be able to just veg out with just a couple of days trips but lots of SUN to complement the location which was about 27 Ks East of Normin...
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New Van Park/Campgound search site
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Just a quick heads up on a new search tool for those seeking caravan parks/campsites/cabins: www.turu.com.au I've had a quick look and it seems quite interesting. Very flash. Put together by the Nine Network, oddly enough. Cheers, Tony
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New van floor
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Well Tuesday my van will taken in to have the floor repaired we had a leak some 2years ago and having a metal stone guard floor right along the bottom of the van water would lay between the floor and plate but the insurance company ( CIL) said no trouble we will fix if we can or we will write it off hoping they c...
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hayman reece
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hi all just bought a new patrol ,so we thought we would buy some weight distribution bars but have found out that hayman reece won,t fit the nissan,s towbar ,we have never used these before as we had airbags fitted to the old patrol and they were quite successful,but thought we would try HR, anyone else...
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Centrelink Mail
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How do nomads receive their important mails? We have a postal mail box and have a friend forward the mail to us when we are in one place for a period of time which is only several times a year. Today was one of those great days when we received our mail - over twenty items, including several from Center...
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Power on or off?
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I'm a sort of semi grey nomad. I qualify due to the fact my hair started going grey at the age of 14 and now at an age fast approaching retirement I can't even remember what dark hair looks like. It's the nomad part I have problems with. Apart from five weeks a year on short tours around WA and weekends snatch...
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heading for nsw : help needed
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Greetings fellow Grey Nomads I am in need of of a bit of advice we have been on the road for 18 months and are heading to nsw in sept until december. We are looking at staying at dumaresq, copeton dams and also gumma reserve initially 1) we prefer free or cheap camping (as opposed to caravan parks) near wat...
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