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This is a good article that warrants comment.. and to be honest I personally hope the Wizzbang renters never discover the beauty of the outback.. I also hope that the outback business community wake up the the fact that they need find ways to get our $$$$$ off us instead of looking for ways of stopping us...

Having just spent the past 2 weeks on the Gibb River Road in the Kimberleys, Western Australia, it is pretty hard to find a small selection of pics. But here goes.... Windjana Gorge and our camp.

We are going to travel around Oz in a couple of months and don't know which would be better. A caravan or a pop up van or camping. We are planning on going for at least a year. No pets or kids. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Allana

Below is a link to a terrific piece of sound engineering. This is a video of street singers from around the world being recorded, overlaid and mixed with one another while singing the song "Stand By Me". It is a marvel to listen to and watch. They all deserve to be heard. The finished prod...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-17/study-sheds-light-on-wa-working-dogs-collies-kelpies-huntaways/5675578

Whoops!!!!!!!! A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a very attractive woman waving at him. She says, 'Hello.' He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he asks, 'Do you know me?' To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one o...

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Brains of elderly are slow because they know so much.... By Sarah Knapton, Science Correspondent Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe. Much like a computer struggles as th...

Gday... 1807 - Work commences on the Bell Rock Lighthouse, considered one of the "Seven Wonders of the Industrial World". The Bell Rock Lighthouse, in the North sea, is the world's oldest offshore lighthouse. Situated 18 kilometres off the coast of Angus, Scotland, for ma...

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." 3. There is a very fine line between &quo...

Yep, free camping, they only want a donation,very proud I used my first dump, ezy pezzy, its an old abandoned town and mine, there's a bbq area, toilets, nice spot., oh and I remembered to take the breather cap off the hot water service this morning, had a beautiful hot shower. Sorry forgot my lippy at h...

A Jewish grandmother is giving directions to her grown grandson who is coming to visit with his wife. "You come to the front door of the apartments. I am in apartment 301. There is a big panel at the front door. With your elbow, push button 301. I will buzz you in. Come inside and the elevator is on t...

Hello again fellow Nomads. I have finally got SHMBO to embark on an extended road trip..... 4 weeks without 5 Star accom. To the point of this enquiry. I am wanting to spend most of these 4 weeks west of Toowoomba, North of the NSW Border and south of Mt Isa. What, in your experienced opinion should one NOT...

Well Folks apart from travelling this great land of ours, I have turned my hand to mounting medals. I used to play around with doing retirement boards etc when I was at work and quite enjoyed it, and on occasions I still have ex work colleagues call in home wanting a medal bar or something else done so I t...

Last weekend I traveled from the Sunshine Coast to Bundaburg for a wedding. During the three and a half to four hour trip we lost track of how many vans we passed after we counted to 50 vans. I didn't start counting till I was nearly to Gympie and only then because I started to notice that we were passing the...

We are wanting to set ourselves up so that we can use Free Camps. Can anyone please tell us what would be the minimum we would need to be able to run an airconditioner and microwave oven ? We don't have a lot of money, and would like to be able to go away more often without paying for caravan parks all the time....

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A question for the forum, probably asked many times before, but what do forum readers think $28 per person per night for an unpowered private camping site, can use generators or $20 per person per night and $20 for power. plus the permit you need to buy just to travel on the road $20, and we don't have an of...