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Hello, We are planing to travel to Tibboburra and beyond with our new off-road van and would like some suggestions as to how we can protect the van from stone/gravel damage thrown up by the vehicle. When we took our last van to Tibboburra the paintwork was sand blasted and we wouldn't like it to happen a...

Travelling from Tennant Creek down to towards St George area ,looking for suggestions about free camping with fishing, we have a car and camper trailer, no 4wd, no set route got two weeks traveling time..

If this has been suggested before, please don't read it. We don't need too much duplication. I've heard talk of owners efforts to stop the Winegard wandering across the roof of the van during travel. I checked mine and sure enough, the little foot on the antenna had scribed an arc about 100mm or so lon...

My wife and I are doing our first big trip to FNQ in June, has anybody got a campsite recommendations and preferred routing between Tanunda, SA and Brisbane. From Brisbane we will then commence our slow crawl up the coast.

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yesterday we came to Apollo Bay from Ballarat. Eril drove for half an hour in to Cloac where we stopped for a coffee. Very twisty and windy road the last 50 km. Pajero and 24' Jayco Stirling handled beautifully. Were set up nicely an hour before dark. I have turned the 240v park power off at midday to see ho...

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I finally had the great pleasure of meeting "Jonathan" Jon, today. I missed Jon by one lousy day back in late 2012 at Greens Lake, Central Victoria. "Oldboar" Darell and Sandra were there as well so we all ended up at the Strand here in down town Townsville for morning coffee/t...

How many Australian caravan makers put their product through something as rigorous as this? http://youtu.be/Gv8s5Nov-R4

HI Extract from Qld GAS newsletter [Quote]Online shopping, gasfitters beware!A number of consumers have recently been caught out by buying gas-fuelled appliances from the internet without fully understanding the suitability of the appliance for its intended use. In a recent case, if not for t...

Hello everyone, At Easter we took our new van away for its first big run. It performed well but it is a bit messy hooking up the grey water to the waste pipe. We have separate outlet pipes for sink and shower and they are placed on either side of the wheel. We linked them together with short lengths of flexib...

Hi there everyone, we are a family of 5 and love our camping holidays in our Jayco Swan OB. Whilst we are not officially grey nomads we are definitely greying! We have a busy, challenging lifestyle and crave a change of scenery regularly which is where our camping holidays come in! We love explorin...

We were travelling and arrived at Kunurra late afternoon. As we normally free stay we found a park just out of town where another caravan had pulled up before us. After having tea and showering to our surprise about 9.30pm we had a knock on our caravan door. It was, although no identification was for...

To keep the boss happy on our first trip north in a few weeks time I need to be able receive any of the TV shows she is into at the time during our trip. I prefer the stars with a cool bevy myself! Anyway I dont want a roof mounted system, too much stuff up there now. So looking at portable systems which claim to b...

Can recommend this guy if you need a general mechanic in the Isa - Matt Pouis - 135B West Street, Mt Isa - ph 0402 514 914 Nice young guy, very obliging and knows what he is doing! Also BAM Auto Electrics - 1 Duke Street, Mt Isa - ph 0458 825 660 - very helpful guys - we dealt with Brett. (Only do cash - no eftpos...

It was one of those days when a few GN's managed to organise a brief meeting in Townsville today .. It started with morning tea .. extended to lunch at a pub .. then stretched out to a serving of Ice-cream each down the road .. I thoroughly enjoyed the company of Doug .. Darrell and Sandra whilst waiting for...

HI, we have a cub Supervan Drover and on these chilly nights we get condensation on the roof. We were thinking of getting a solar blanket to help. Has anyone had this problem and solved it.

I am 'very new' to the whole motorhome way of life etc. To the point where we have just paid a deposit on a new motorhome & are unable to collect it until September. 'We' are graduating from a Navara ute and double swag, so we have absolutely no idea what we are in for!! The 'advice' I am seeking relates t...