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Great history, beautiful scenery but hellishly expensive place to visit. Not a single caravan park in town that is pet friendly or for that matter, sensibly priced and no public dump point provided. One caravan park has a dump point. Broome's Gateway and the Roebuck Roadhouse parks, both more than 2...

Gday... 1836 - Australian explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell discovers the Loddon River in Victoria. Major Thomas Mitchell was born in Craigend, Scotland, in 1792. He came to Australia after serving in the Army during the Napoleonic Wars, and took up the position of Surveyor-General of New South...

If you have a "fully" self-contained vehicle RV friendly Murray Bridge is offering powered sites for $10- with unpowered at $5-. Maximum stay is 1 week & is "Pet Friendly" I stress you must be fully self- contained with a the policy of "Leave no Trace". We were t...

A question to those of you that have purchased a new caravan or similar in recent times. Whenever I have bought a new vehicle in the past I have always had a "free" first service after a short time or distance traveled. When I bought my new Camper Trailer last year from JAYCO I had a "Free" service after a sh...

we had to go an pick the interior colours for our new van yesterday., "won't take long we said " how wrong, lot more then we thought, like a new house really, this goes with that but not that , I don't like that but linda does what about that one no not having that, boy was glade when we left there, ...

The below info came from a bank employee and is not a hoax. A friend of mine just tried it also and got $70 off their next bill and $25 off the next 7 bills. I assume it reverts to normal after that, I am waiting for a call back on mine so will see how I go. "If you have gas at home supplied by Alinta Gas,...

Fletcher Creek has now got a dump point. Been up and running about a week. Its great to have. Thanks Charters Towers Council. There are a lot of campers at the moment. There was some trouble with the two 'permanent residents' near the campsite toilet block. One ordering caravaners away from "his...

Sorry about that. Didn't read the whole Page first. Cheers, Sheba. -- Edited by Sheba on Tuesday 1st of July 2014 05:59:40 PM

We were told about the Benalla showgrounds as a very good place to stay, guess what, the only Caravan park in Benalla, got into the ears of the Council, showgrounds have now been closed, you only have the Caravan to go to. Sorry for the shops, etc in Benalla, you will not be getting our money, food, fuel,...

2/6/2014 - 29/6/2014 Well here goes again, another month done and dusted here in tropical Queensland (Townsville). It's been a month since the last update, really? Yep. Shortly after the last update, time started to drag a little waiting for the Colorado to be in my hot little hands. Guess wha...

Hi all In the UK we laugh at the Americans who think they can "do" Britain in 3 days on their 3 week tour of Europe. Now I feel I may be doing the same in NSW. Wife and I are spending 19 days in a campervan this coming October. We will be visiting friends in Berkeley for 2 days so have 17 days to "d...

A friend recently had a water leak showing up in their Winnibago and put it in to get checked out... Fortunately this one got written off by the insurance company but lots that aren't properly insured get put on the market for unsuspecting buyers. This is what the previous owner posted.. "We put i...

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Gidday all, any assistance or Info appreciated, ?/ For Many years i have wanted to go to the Country and Western festival, And Now that i am 4 days away from retirement, I can finally Go ?? As January was always out of the question when i was working, So I know it gets Very, Very, busy, and you need to book wel...

Hi all, I'm looking for a resto project until I can sell up and set off for good. I know this won't get me very far but I think it would be fun for short trips. What I need to know is does anyone recognize it? (Long shot) Its up north in SA 5 hors from Adelaide. I think it's a 1978 Ford Transit ex ambulance. Woul...

Gday... 1834 - A public meeting is held in Exeter Hall, London, to discuss plans for the new colony of South Australia. Explorer Matthew Flinders was the first European to investigate the possibilities for settlement on South Australia's coast, doing so in 1802. The exploration of Charles S...

Found what would be the best free camp I have found so far, located near the Ferry at Cadell SA. Has wonderful clean toilets with lighting and power, at night spot lights light up the river Gums casting the shadows across the Murray onto the sheer cliff face opposite. Not shown in the current CAMPS Austr...

Hi all, here I am again with yet another question, It has been mentioned to me today that you might not be able to use WDH on a Holden Tow Bar for the Colorado. Does anyone out there in Colorado land use WDH or heard about it. No offence intended to the person that gave me the heads up, I appreciate it very much...

So here we are still at Home Hill and who drops in here but Yeoeleven and parks right in front of us .He is with Myvan and Chris I think ,we will catch uo tomorrow as I think they are staying a couple off days.

Hello everyone, Looking for some advice and help. We had a problem the amp meter on our van. The problem started when we run the battery flat with out the mains on ( inadvertently left the fridge running!). We hooked the mains up and the battery was charging at 25 amps, discovered smoke coming out of the b...