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Heading west
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Today at Georgetown we caught up with KiwiAs and will head to Normanton together, stopping tonight at Cumberland Mine site (#249), enjoying the journey and the company! Nothing overly exciting to report, a few hold ups with roadworks which are an inconvenience to those on a timetable but means bett...
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Gem-Fest.
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Any-one going to the Gem-fest this weekend ? Cheers, Sheba.
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Caravan covers
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I need to pick your collective brains. I have to cover our van as it has sprung a leak and I can't find where from & can't afford to get it fixed professionally. The 2 eBay links below are for 2 different covers. One says it's heavy duty & seems the better one (though that may be just advertising bs)...
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Bruce Highway closed at Maryborough
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For the 2nd time in 3 days the Bruce Highway is closed due to a major truck accident. This morning involved 2 trucks with one driver being killed. There is debris across the road I have been told. Could be a while before the road is reopened. They are diverting traffic around through Maryborough somehow...
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Moranbah
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Travelled Mackay to Moranbah. Free camp at the pub #81 was fine but decided to go to Issac River rest area #84. No toilet and sign saying no camping. Was late in the day so stopped to Peak Downs Roadhouse just down the road. Very obliging and let us stay on the grass there and use the shower and toilets. Had...
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CAR SCAM PLEASE BEWARE
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I was thinking of trading in my old car and getting a more powerful one and went to(carsguide.com.au) to find one, came across 4 Nissan Patrols from year 2001 to 2005 4x4 with all the bells and whistles and thought $12,000 to 14,000 was just too good to not check out, well you guest it a BIG Scam accordin...
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update to our departer
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hi everyone, Well we departed the mornington peninsula about 1030am from the westernport caravan park, very nice, our departuer was not what I would call something to remember, because of all the rain we had had it was just awash with water that could not run off, had to use low fwd to get out and it wasn'...
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Gas Bottle Fill ups
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3 Kilo's gas Bottle at Tocumwal NSW Caltex Service Station $20.00 Can anyone beat that.?..He looked under the counter too find the price......I'd Love to report this prick I told him he was giving the great town of Tocumwal a Bad report
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The Caravanner's greatest gift
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Watching TV? Sat at the table. You know the problem. After a while your bum goes to sleep and you get back ache. Why not lay on the bed? If you're like me no matter how many pillows you put behind your back you can't get comfortable, and when you do get comfortable you fall asleep. I've found the answer! It's...
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Perth this weekend.
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Hi, Have just put a post on the solos forum to see if there are any GN's in or about Perth that might like to catch up over the weekend? Solo or couple is ok by me. I'm about to start to travel east so I would like to meet up somewhere. There seems to be plenty happening on the east coast so maybe we could start it...
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Use of overdrive.
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Having had 2 mechanics give me totally opposing advice, I thought I'd put this topic out here to see if I can get a general concensus that will help me save my gearbox. When towing a caravan, do you have the "overdrive " function engaged or not ? One mechanic said you only use it on hilly tows : th...
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Geocaching
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Has anyone in Grey Nomads ever participated in Geocaching? Geocaching is, and I quote directly from the website, "the free high-tech treasure hunt where you use your GPS receiver to find caches hidden by other players. It's a great way to be outdoors, enjoy the environment and revel in the thri...
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Two sleeps to go
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Hello everyone, we have two sleeps to go before we set north. Its going to be a bit harder now as today our grand daughter gave birth at 3.50pm to our new great grand son, it was hard enough getting her out of Frankston Hospital Maternity back to the van so we could cryo vac some meat for the freezer so I think...
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Camp fire cooking
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We are about to hit the road full time and would like to take our camp oven and hot plate. Just wondering how many opportunities we will have to use this at free camp sites due to availability of firewood. ??
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CAR AND CARAVAN REGO
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I am not sure what's going on this way but for the second year in a row my rego has come to my house 3 days before it is due! Main Roads say they send them 6 weeks before they are due, wonder if this is a way for them to get late fee's? Anybody else having this trouble?
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Our new life
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I am excited!! As I look out the front window of our home I am reminded that it is not a dream but our 24ft Crusader caravan I can see and touch!! Yeeaah!! My name is Rob and I am married to Kim. We live in Gympie QLD. see you on the road Rob Kim
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storing potatoes
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Hi everyone, I thought I would jump on and just ask what people do about storing there potatoes. We don't have a separate storage area in the bench top like in some of the vans we have owned, thanks for all the help we have received up to now, less than 24 hours before departure, looking foreward to meeting...
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Congratulations Cindy, We're 4000 Members and getting bigger
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The Grey Nomads website has now reached the 4000 member mark which is fantastic and a testiment to our webmistress Cindy's original concept and hard work in designing this website & keeping it going. I hope all these new members drop in & say hello & possibly even contribute to one of the m...
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Who Are We?
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Hi apologies for posting a question before we introduced ourselves.We are Dave and Carol, I am a Scott, who first came to Australia as a ten pound pom almost forty years ago, since then I have moved around Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Wodonga, Bathurst, Albury, Japan, Thailand, Mexico, New Zealand...
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What do we need to Free Camp
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Hi this is my first ever forum post, so please bear with me if I do things a little wrong. We are at the planning stage, starting from scratch to work out what we will need to live on the road for a couple of years, and one of the topics I do not understand all of the ramifications off is free camping. I am fine w...
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