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After spending three weeks away on our first trip and enduring many a chilly night, the coldest almost down to zero degrees inside the van. The heater jumped to the top of our must buy list and this is our install result. Now looking at fans for the hot weather which is just around the corner. Bessie.

(sorry if this in in the wrong spot) RIVERLANDS SOUTH AUSTRALIA Barmera S.A. has just opened it's new SELF CONTAINED R V Park at the Bruce Oval, enterance on Simms St. Suitable for large rigs as well, Toilet block, water tap on toilet block wall, DUMP point, close to the main street. Cost is $5 per night,...

We are planning to drive from Lorne towing our van up towards Colac going through Deans Marsh. Can anyone give us an idea of what the drive is like towing a van ? Very windy and steep

We are heading home from Esperance on Saturday and want to know if anyone knows of a place we can free camp between Lake King and Newdegate. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. John

the eclipse is still going if you rush out side now..

Food works carpark in Ceduna, spotted a Grey Nomad sticker on the back window of a 4wd - wwent up and introduced ourselves - Dickndora, not prolific posters, but readers of the forum, nice to meet you guys!

As a self funded retiree this current share market volatility makes me nervous Daz

Hope you enjoy this reuse of an old Ghost town area.. Over a period of months the free camp with separate camping and caravan sites has been carved out of the bush that had, over the years, reclaimed the sports ground, including oval, tennis courts and a golf course, that had once served the tiny town of...

Hi all I am wandering again in July / August next year and will be meeting a few friendss somewhere in NSW. This year we stayed at Ballina and the caravan park there was well placed and we had a terrific time. I am now looking for a new site to stay south of Ballina and to around Port Macquarie.It will be for a w...

We are trying to locate somewhere in Darwin to have a box built to store generator etc. does anyone have any ideas where we might find a manufacturer who does this sort of work

Teacher and johnny were studying the stars when teacher said to johnny have you seen Mars!.No said johnny looking down at his boots I havn,t seen Mars but pa,s got a beaut..

I didn't even know there was a lunar eclipse tonight but if you're interested the starting times around the country are:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-08/missing-woman-found-after-17-days-in-bush/5799110

not sure if its been on this forum before but I've only just seen it and now im hopping mad.. September 15, 2014 The value of the annual influx of free-camping grey nomads into central Queensland has again been called into question. The ABC reports that many ratepayers in the region reckon theyre foot...

Can any of you shutterbugs out there tell me if its possible and if so how to change photo size of my library of shots , taken with camera set on 7m, so as to make them suitable for sending by e-mail ? I hate modern technology and why don't cameras come with decent size manuals these days ? Hope somebody can h...

I have just read the closed ampfibian thread and would like to state the following. The use of a product of approved components to make an ampfibian type of product is covered by AS/NZS3190 which is the RCD standard both fixed and portable and as it contains an RCD it becomes a Declared Article under the...

Many of you have probably crossed over the Pichi Richi railway line on the way to Quorn and the Flinders ranges passing the old town site which now is just farming paddocks. The farmers paddock where the old hotel stood still has some remains of the concrete gutters which surrounded the hotel. Ne...

Anyone heading towards Bedford Weir over the next few days, we are heading there tomorrow till the weekend. Would love to catch up.

Hi at the moment we are in Alice Springs if anyone would like to catch up....we would love to meet you...we are at the Heritage Caravan Park ...we are here for about a week -- Edited by wanderers on Wednesday 8th of October 2014 05:34:30 PM

How, After the last three weeks of going practically non stop I had some lovely soup at the Warrnambool RSL for lunch. I felt myself getting rather tired so came back to the Den as all my get up and go, got up and went. Yep you guessed it, crashed big time. Three hours later still feeling like that go hasn't c...