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Knees finally gave out, and wife Marg and I have decided that we needed to upgrade from Tenting. Just bought a little 14ft Jayco Starcraft (take delivery tomorrow), and will head out on our 'shakedown cruise' as soon as we can. Looking forward to joining the 'great grey masses'. Long time caravaning...

Recently retired and new members to the forum. Sitting in our new ( to us ) 2012 Jayco Sterling at Tocumwal. First Van, first trip and first night on the road. Nothing broken as yet and confidence and marriage still intact as we have a drive through site. Really enjoy reading all the posts. Cheers Steve...

Hi All, Read here as a guess many times, pushed here by a friend Anyway been vanning for just on 8 yrs. now I might get it right one day, on the 3rd van currently a Jayco Expanda after having 2 Jayco campers prior to that and yep even did the tent thing for a while. The 4th van is currently under investigation...

As I understand it, caravan sites in the Camp books, the latest of course is 7, only have sites that are free or up to $22 a night - well that was the price for paid sites in Camp 6. I found this out by not being able to find sites like the Big 4 at Cannonvale / Airlie Beach. What's the best book available with the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMK74OX63sU I love this clip - he's absolutely brilliant!!

To all the Dads - have a wonderful day.

Could anyone tell me how to remove the 'flag thingy' from the posts I put on here please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgd9hitEAE turn your sound on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgd9hitEAE turn your sound on

Finally achieved 1000 posts with this one which I didn't ever expect to reach but still enjoying the forum so will still be around for some time to come but will never catch up to Wombat and many other members. Thanks to Cindy for providing such a fantastic well coordinated forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U430rpfjIIQ This clip is hysterical - her family are discussing what to do with their aging dog, Mrs Brown misunderstands the conversation.

We are invaded by ants. We thought they came in on dog food that we had left out..... That is still a possibility but how do we get rid of them. They seem to just wait in hiding until we go to bed and then they swarm. We are using Ant Rid at present. Does anyone have other ideas please.

Hi all we have a Coronet and our access from the street goes up quite sharply. We have put pieces of timber across the gutter but it is really the angle of the concrete from the fence to the gutter that is the problem. the easy riders scrape along the concrete. we were going to have made some steel panels bu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redhead_Day Dave

Arrived on Saturday after spending a couple of nights at some interesting place. We left Kendall Thursday morning after a windy couple of days and travelled north as far as Ballina. We stayed at the Sandalwood Caravan Park 10 km before Ballina and it is a lovely little park which I would recommend. Th...

http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/09/04/4081144.htm

emoticons. I can use the first page but the default 2nd page I can see but can't copy and paste. does anyone know how to do it? thank.s

This is a clip from their facebook page, put on my facebook by Free Choice Camping - very interesting indeed! FROM THE CABOOLTURE SHOW SOCIETY Interesting comment on their Facebook page. Wonder if the CP Lobby can still call us freeloaders Caboolture Show Society... For the last month our staff have...

Does anybody know if this is true? saw this list published on a facebook page just now: New POLICE Fines in Queensland.. Be careful. More revenue.. NEW QLD Road Rules as of now!!!! $256 + points Driving with person or animal on lap $44 + points Reversing for longer than necessary $256 + 1 point Followi...

Happy fathers day to all the dads out there., i'm waiting waiting, at Norseman, thought I'd post my Kalgoorlie pics, it took my breath away, could'nt fathom how deep it is. I used to work for Caterpillar and know how big those trucks are, they look like ants. -- Edited by Frangipani on Sunday 7th of Sept...