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Stuart Highway has been reopened after another four wheel drive towing a caravan has come to grief. What is it with this 2km stretch of road that has so many caravan rollovers??? All seem to be out of state vehicles & we get 3-5 every dry season in the same location, road is in reasonable condition, d...

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Hi again all and thank you for advice on " shake down " trip . We also have purchased a Weber Q BBQ and I'm wondering where the best place to store it would be . Hubby is thinking of storing it in the tunnel and building a slide out mechanism for it . Any other suggestions would be appreciated . T...

Hi My wife and I intend flying from UK into Perth and plan to spend 6wks travelling from Perth to Gold Coast via WA NT and into QLD via Cairns. Any advise on when to travel, routes, camping grounds, hiring info (camper van), plus any general advise would be v welcome. Frequent visitor to Oz, but...

My Question is this:- Is there anyone on the Grey Nomad forum who is a resident at the RV Homebase Village in Maryborough Qld. This is a unique style of retirement accommodation where they provide a specially built garage to allow one to park an RV or Caravan undercover. This is a first I believe for Quee...

Hi all, Does anyone take a trail bike on your travels, and can you carry it a the back of your caravan. I am thinking of just a small unit to play with 125cc to keep the weight down. Hey Jim

Well it looks like no Australian vehicles are affected by the software hacking vulnerability (so far).Drivers urged to update Jeep software after hackers force car off the road Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has issues a statement, saying that the security flaw does not impact Jeep vehicles sold in Au...

Took this photo on our morning walk today, they were still asleep. Taken in Murrayville VIC. just a couple of minutes walk away from the small immaculate community caravan park that we're staying in is. $9.90 per night for a powered site. When are these morons going to stop giving the rest of us a bad nam...

Hi all . We have just purchased our first van. We have almost completed setting everything up , thanks for the advice out there , and hopefully we will head out of Melbourne for a couple of days to check it's all in working order. As we are first time caravanners , we would like to find a CP first up which has r...

Anybody know of cheap or freebies campsite in or around Darwin area for a big rigs.

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We've just spent 3 days at the Evening Star Tourist Park in Charleville and we can highly recommend staying here. The owners are very friendly and helpful, happy hour every night at 5pm with free damper. Very dog friendly as well. -- Edited by circlek on Friday 24th of July 2015 08:57:07 PM

If you're looking for a great place to stay, as long as you like. Property 30 minutes from Townsville, separate shower toilet and power in exchange very light duties. Friendly family, pets welcome. Horses everywhere.

Hello we stayed at the Tooraweenah caravan park NSW on the tourist road on the way to the warrenbungles national park. The owners Geoff & Sarah were just terrific, scones, cream and jam on arrival, happy hour and fire at 5pm. The facilities are old but very clean and the sites ok for big rigs with s...

Well I got the 1500w PSW Inverter today, attached to the batteries and all good. The Ninja, Ninja'd and did it's thing as it should. Power to the people, well power to the Ninja I spose. Thanks to those that gave input in a previous thread.

I will not be using my motorhome for about 6 months.My water tanks hold 120 litres of fresh water and I am not sure whether to drain the tanks.I am worried about the water going stale and/or the seals drying out.I do not have any filtration system. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Has anyone replaced the toilet cassette float in a Dometic CTS3110 toilet. I have to fit a new one and am not sure if the magnet in the float faces up or down. any advice would be appreciated.

I pointed to two old drunks across the Bar from us and told my mate, "That could very well be us in another ten years." He said, "That's a mirror, you Dickhead...... Hoo Roo