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AN APPROPIATE POEMAustralians are a funny lot, you'll often hear one curse, How things have started badly, and they'll probably get worse, The weathers dry, the sun's so hot it's stolen all the water, The Government has never done the things we think they oughta'.But if we hear a tourist say his home i...

Has anyone been to Bungonia State Recreation area CAW6 554 ! a mate of mine has a 21ft van & wants to know if the area is suitable for larger caravans.

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Hi all just a quick one what caravan park is the best to stay at at Broken Hill? Might be there for a couple of nights. Thanks

LOOKING FOR A TRAVEL BLOG WEBSITE?? Hello fellow Grey Nomads living & travelling around Australia in caravans or other. I have been looking for an on-line travel blog website to maintain a diary, photos, blog, youtube videos of my travels around Australia. The website http://biglap.com.a...

We live in an area of mostly retired folk and the general topic of conversation when you meet a friend in town starts with "when all the kids go back to school we......." then a description of what the plans are for the coming month/ year/ season etc. So what is everyone planning for this ye...

Thank you Paul an Val gave us these chairs because they couldn't fit them in their motorhome when they visited us so after checking them out on many occasions at home we have decided that they are much more comfortable then the ones we had.

Yep I am now sitting at "The Captains Table" on board the good ship "Spirit 2". We should hit the high seas at 9.00am on the nocker they just said. Look out Tassie we are on our way, yahooo. This has just been declared a "Wombat Free" sail :)

Gday...1919 - The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic reaches New South Wales. 1606 - Guy Fawkes is convicted of attempting to blow up the English Parliament.1926 - Scottish Inventor John Logie Baird gives the first demonstration of television. 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty is opened fo...

Yes that's right folks we have arrived in Tassie safe and sound. good to catch up with Dougwe on the way over as well and hopefully, will catch up with him again if time allows. currently at Latrobe camping behind the IGA great spot and can I say, it looks as if Tassie can do with a drop of rain (hope I don't j...

We are heading off on our trip on April 27 and getting excited until this morning her indoors went outside with the dog said the caravans moved i shot out the the garage to see and low and behold some drunken moron had mounted the kerb and hit the draw bar pushing the van front end over a metre the bodywork n...

We are currently in Tassie and in the Launceston area an am making our way around the East Coast. Any grey nomads travelling around? Vicki&Greg

Hi guys. We are wanting to buy a van and go around Australia. We don't want to go four wheel driving with the van but we do want To buy a Van that we can take on dirt roads. This means capable of copying with the corrugations. We would love to hear from members that have done it and their recommendations abou...

A mother and her 5-year-old son were flying Qantas from Sydney to Auckland. The son (who had been looking out the window) turned to his mother and asked, If big dogs have baby dogs and big cats have baby cats, why don't big planes have baby planes?" The mother, who couldn't think of an answer, told h...

Member Recognition :) One morning three women are golfing on the fourth green when suddenly a guy runs by wearing nothing but a bag over his head. As he passes by the first woman, she looks down and says, Well, hes certainly not my husband. As he passes by the second woman, she also glances downw...

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On the lake although there is not a lot of water in it at present. It is a beautiful quiet little CP, $25pn, stay 7 pay for 6. Owners are lovely people, very friendly and accommodating. The town is really nice, with a good pub, supermarket, bakery, butcher etc. I booked in for 2 nights and have stayed for 2 w...

Just wondering any body thoughts on the Couple Mate caravan jack ,the one you put under the axle and reverse up to put the axle in the air, are they safe enough or are they. A bit iffy. lance C

I leave Melbourne to chase the sun at the end of April this year. I will be travelling solo with zero experience at towing or caravanning, so this will be a huge challenge in my life. I excited but also very nervous. I thought that a duel reversing camera attached to my Commodore seda...

Hi All. Has anyone brought or used a Kogan mobile phone. Its a Android Agora HD+ Smartphone. I'm thinking of getting one as I don't need a phone with all the bells & whistles and the specs look pretty good on this one with a decent size screen. Thoughts anyone.