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G'Day All The better half and I are leaving from Mareeba on Friday 8-6-18 for a trip around Aus. I look forward to meeting new people on the way around. Have a couple of questions, what channel is the nomads channel on the UHF and is channel 11 still a call channel. Cheers and I hope to meet a few of you on t...

Hi all, We are aiming for a trip to the Central Queensland Gemfields in late July. May get away earlier but definitely aiming for third week of July if any GNs will be there then. Regards Dave

Gday... I was just in Coles at the checkout, and an old bloke in front was getting served. His bill came to $54.60, but when he counted out his change, he had just under $50. He didnt want me to help him, God bless him, but I insisted, and in no time we had all his shopping back on the shelves. Cheers - John

Winter will well and truly hit Perth later today, with a rare storm system and cold front set to batter the west coast, bringing destructive winds, high tides and localised flooding ahead of a week of wet weather. The cold front will be one of the worst to hit the state this year, according to the BOM."Th...

Has anyone ever traded in almost new off road tyres on standard highway rubber..? Recently up graded my old Ssangyong to a much newer Jeep. New rubber was installed to get the Vic RWC.. But they are offroad tractor tyres, a place I don't go, and they howl like fifty banshees from Hell on the highway...

We have just planned our first Nullarbor trip to take place in August/September/October 2018, which will be with our next yet to be found caravan! Our little 18'6" poptop is not going to cut the mustard for this & it is time to upgrade so that we are well equipped to free camp as well as some caravan pa...

A boy is selling fish on a corner. To get his customers attention, he is yelling: Dam fish for sale! Get your dam fish here! A shocked pastor is passing and hears this. He asks: Why are you calling them dam fish?' The boy responds: Because I caught these fish at the local dam. So the pastor buys a couple fis...

I got chatting with a girl in a bar last night, "Can I buy you a drink?" I asked. "Don't you have a girlfriend?" she replied, "Guys like you always have girlfriends. ""No, sadly we broke up just over a month ago," I assured her. "Oh I'm sorry to hear that," she said, "Go on then, I'll have a Cider please.......

Our Foxtell Q2 has stopped recording our programs . Rather annoying as we have been in NZ the last week . Mrs rang Fox put through a few checks on our Q2 set top . To say we are being transferred to satellite as cable is being taken off NBN . Seems if your in a high use area ? They do this . ?? May suit us ? In motor...

BIG day for me yesterday. Eldest son Mark been extremelly busy with the Ballarat Heritage Weekend as he is an events manager with the Ballarat City Council, the weekend was last weekend. He and his wife have two of our Grandkids, Edwin 3 and Mia one. He was able to take a couple of days in lieu so we suggest...

Good afternoon all - have a new van that has a Hume water level indicator and Gauge Blue. Unfortunately there are no instructions as to how to read this gauge. I have the tanks and I have four green lines with three dots in each line with the centre four dots orange and the single dot also orange. Does th...

G'Day All, Since one of us was diagnosed with Follicular Lymphoma,One of us has it the other one assists in every way he can to make it easier. The Oncologist gave us 6 months before the next check up.So we are up and moving again. We left Boronia(Melbourne) 6 days ago, and wandered northwards. All was t...

There are (000's) of Grey Nomads and their dogs all pushing up and down the Stuart Highway finding the warm weather and ideal locations to bask in good weather, good company, and a welcoming part of the country. AND We are have joined them having set out from Central West of NSW firstly heading to the Fra...

Diesel Heater question... I have an issue and I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on a solution .... I have installed a diesel heater in my van. When I first installed the unit I was using regular deep cycle batteries and everything worked smoothly. I now have Lithium and I am experiencing issue...

First, some background. We bought a second hand Sterling in December with an en suite. Prior to that we started with a Swan Camper Trailer, then upgraded to a Jayco Freedom. Including four trips done in the Sterling we have travelled a total of 38,436-kilometres. So we are reasonably experienced in t...

Hi, This is the 1st time I need to prepared for caravaning into Outback. We will mainly drive sealed roads. My concern is medical emergency and vehicle breakdown situations. If you travel overseas it easy to get travel insurance which covers most things that I have been concerned about. While I cont...

Has anyone used this to seal their roof?