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Well the weather turned on a beautiful for the event today. We decided to beat the traffic this year and got there at 8am....... A bit of overkill I suppose, whats worse.......sitting at the entrance at the front of the queue for an hour or waiting in your car half way up the highway waiting to get in. It wa...

Has anyone worked (or volunteered) there way around while travelling. I notice a few positions both paid and unpaid on this site and wonder what experiences other people have had doing this, I believe it would be a great way to learn the local culture and characters in the district you are staying in. W...

Hi, has anyone removed the bedside spotlights that are on the later Jayco vans. I want to move the wiring inside the cupboard but cant see how the lights are fitted to the side of the cupboard. They are actually a dometic surface mount spot light and assume they are in many different brand vans. I have ch...

Needed an oil change, filter and air filter swap. Road Runner Mechanical in Place Road were great - reasonable price, prompt service, and a workshop where we could just drive over a pit for the service. Not that many places have pits, a lot only have hoists, and that takes your vehicle up pretty high....

Thunderstorms sweep across south-east Queensland...... Golf-ball-sized hail was reported in parts, causing damage to cars, roofs and windows. Severe thunderstorms have hit south-east Queensland, bringing damaging winds and large hailstones to areas north of Brisbane. The Bureau of Meteor...

Hail the size of golf balls has pelted Adelaide in a sudden downpour as spring storms moved across South Australia. At one stage, the Bureau of Meteorology was tracking four thunderstorms moving in a south-easterly direction across Adelaide, the Barossa and the Fleurieu Peninsula.Senior foreca...

Well, hi there everyone, we have finally arrived in SEQ, Caboolture to be exact for the time being, but here is our episode for "Eating our way around Australia" September, which takes us up to the other side of the range. Happy reading

Some 15 year old girlfriends decided to meet for dinner. They discussed where to eat and finally agreed on McDonald's next to the Sea Side Restaurant because they only had $6.50 between them and Bobby Bruce, the cute boy in science class, lived on that street. 10 years later, the same girlfriends, no...

Was talking to the man down the street whose father was prisoner on the Burma railway during world war 11 and died there aged 26. He went over there 2 years ago to find out where his father was buried and didn't realize that there was over 2,600 Australians that died in just that one particular area. Grea...

Hi all Neatly mounted in my recently purchased van is a socket combination with one cig type and two usb slots. Went to use the cig socket for the dust buster and no power. When I traced the wiring I saw it was disconnected from the battery. After thinking I'd simply re-connect it I had one of those "light...

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Hello To Everyone Thank you for adding us to your group. We have been reading the posts with great interest, what a wonderful forum. We are in the planning stages of purchasing a pop top caravan (early next year) as tenting is getting too much for us now. Live in Darwin and dreaming of the day when we can st...

Hi (again) folks. I've put a link here for a YouTube video I put together on the Goomburra Forest Retreat, near Warwick. Prices are reasonable and you get what you pay for. Unfortunately, since I shot the video two months ago, the owners tell me they have sold the property to the people who run the Gordon...

New to this forum. Long away from being a Grey Nomad. Hoping to learn a lot on this site by reading all the posts past and present. -- Edited by Oz n Millie on Wednesday 9th of November 2016 01:48:09 PM -- Edited by Oz n Millie on Wednesday 9th of November 2016 02:25:42 PM

Can anyone tell me if Bulahdelah Showgrounds is open November 12th for overnight.

Hi all. My wife and I traveled around the great Australia for a year back in 2005. We are now thinking of moving over there on a permanent basis and becoming transient grey nomads now that we have two sets of grand children and other rels in Aus. So in a sense were are re-cycled grey nomads. I am sure there...

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Hi All My wife and I have been camping for many years, owned a caravan for about years now and while we never thought we'd be "grey nomads", we are enjoying camping in our caravan so much we are away in it every other weekend on average ever since we bought it. We are still working full time but can see a time...