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Hey all, we are about to tackle the Gibb River Road. We leave Derby in the morning, and are not sure when we will arrive at Kunnanurra. Wish us safe travels.

Gday... 1829 - The colony of Western Australia is proclaimed. The western coast of Terra Australis Incognito is believed to have first been sighted by Portuguese sailors. However, the first recorded sighting of Australia's western coastline came in 1611, when Dutch mariner Hendrik Brouw...

Since our last post from Fountain Springs, far west Queensland, we continued west across the border spending our first night at Wurama Bore rest area, then on through Three Ways, down for a quick look at Tennant Creek (very quick, lol). Second night was at Banka Banka Station (beautiful spring water...

I usually travel on channel 18 which is the caravanner's channel and have it displayed on the back of my van, recently on a couple of occasions whilst travelling at around 90 kph I have had big trucks sitting close behind me and have called them up to talk about passing but got no response. Can someone pl...

I have just had an ICOM 440N cb radio installed in my 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. Because of the way the bonnet and mudguard bodywork is configured on the Santa Fe and because of the fact that we do not have a bull bar or nudge bar installed, it was not possible to have a body mounted antenna attached so we werer f...

this just came in mail box at home ,go online at auspost.com.au/mypost . It looks like u can have bill sent and paid with it. It's free. Dave -- Edited by Glenelg on Wednesday 4th of June 2014 02:56:17 PM

The teacher asked Mr Abbott if he would like to lead the discussion onthe word 'Tragedy'.So our illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a 'Tragedy' A little boy stood up and offered: 'If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playin' in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that...

On my recent trip to the Carnarvon region I noticed that there seemed a lot of big trucks that exceeded the truck speed limit of 100 kms. I like to site on 100kms but had a number particularly on the Brand Highway trying to push me faster from behind and sitting on my tail. Where possible I would find some...

I`m sure that it has been covered before but for the life of me , I can`t find it . Is there a solution for condensation . Just completed a weeks shakedown of the coaster before our trip around the block but discovered a very annoying trait , As it was bucketing down I recon it was wetter inside the bus than th...

I read the posts on the forum last year about this spot closing down. We have been travelling since mid-April and are now on our way home, so we decided to come and see if the place was still operating. We arrived yesterday, there are no other campers here. Someone still comes and mows the grass but the car...

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Making a Baby.. There is not one dirty word in it, and it is funny! The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, 'Well, I'm off now.The man should be here soo...

Have just come back from visiting a friend that we have made since we have been parked up in Rye for the past 6 months waiting to be a grandad again. We have made good friends with this fellow and visit him around once a week. He is getting on a bit, lives on his own and not in the best of health, in fact quite fra...

My sister bought a second hand Galaxie phone, which I was inpressed with until I looked at the price of a new one.So , after a bit of a search, I bought a Chinese 5 inch phone of fleabay for $130. Its a cubot p9 , and seems to work well except I found that you need a BIG download limit as to download apps uses a lot...

Hi Guys, Just trie dto sign into hotmail and I am getting a screen saying 'Call us over protective' and it wants me to click on a next box to get a code to access Hotmail. has anybody else had this happen? I did a chat with MS and they say its ok to click on Next I also honed them and they told me a web site to go to an...

is it possible to have one vast box and run two television sets not at same time. I would like to run a tv outside on a nice day and on a cold night have a tv on in side . I know this is against being on the road but we are on the road permanently and working around oz so this is a bit of relaxation time for us

sorry had this in wrong spot hope this is the Techies corner this time Guys we have sat dish with foxtel LNB and 2 cables.... previous had the standard analogue box for sat tv like most travellers have want to use a foxtel standard box which we have at home and connect to the dish and to tv in the caravan has...

Apparently in my Regent Crusader pop top rear door 2006 are 2 tv points, sick of loose connections so removed and found cable to be the smaller diam cable, think 59, on the wall plate a screw type clamp onto centre copper. Appears cheap and would prefer rg6 cable in feed from outside. Plus I prefer f type c...

The following questions were set in last year's GED examination. These are genuine answers (from 16 year olds) Q. Name the four seasons A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar Q. How is dew formed A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company ins...

A DAMN FINE EXPLANATION: The wife came home early and found her husband in their bedroom making love to a very attractive young woman. And she was upset. 'You are a disrespectful pig!' she cried. 'How dare you do this to me -- a faithful wife, the Mother of your children! I'm leaving you. I want a divo...