Recently Active Topics

Hi all, Just to let you know that entries to the competition closed midnight Friday AEST (31 May). We will be announcing our top ten finalists as selected by our esteemed judge Steve Jones, Editor-at-Large of Travel Today, on Friday, 7th June. Once the finalists have been announced, there will be...

I'm having trouble finding a Brisbane camp spot as my trip clashes with the caravan & RV show on 5-11 June & it seems all the caravan parks are booked out. I need to camp Thurs evening somewhere close to south Brisbane as I'm having a bullbar fitted to my motorhome early on Friday morning nea...

Is June/July a good time to travel to Birdsvile, what are the road conditions like? Thought of parking the van n driving n staying at Birdsville as a base n tour area in our Prado 4x4. Any feedback be appreciated. Cheers Lyn

Any advice appreciated on an up-to-date source for caravan park reports. I have been using Badgers, but it seems the reports are all at least 2 to 3 years out of date. Cheers, Tony

Hi all, after all this talk about dutch ovens and bread makers, an idea popped into my head! I would like to propose a cooking competition/event/get together in July for Grey Nomads somewhere in Qld (to be nominated by popular choice). We could do:- Best Casserole, best camp oven meal, Best meal in a...

Morning all. Currently in the process of getting the final attachments for the car fitted Before heading north through central Queensland for a couple of months. Any suggestions or recommendations re brands, websites, etc. for driving lights? Car and van details in signature line. Car is book...

You heard about it first here. Cheers

Hi there campers. Just wondering if anyone was in or near or intending to go to the area of Gosford and would be prepared to take a look over a Mazda Motorhome for us? Weve had quite a bit of contact with the company selling the bus but are a bit reluctant to go ahead with the sale, sight unseen. Not that we wo...

A ninety-year-old man is sitting on a park bench, sobbing, when a young man walks by and asks him what's wrong. Through his tears the old man answers, "I'm just so in love with my twenty-five-year-old wife." "What's wrong with that?" asks the young man. Between the sobs and snif...

Afternoon all, My wife Sandra our two pooches and myself have just signed up with the forum and it looks like a great set up. We originate from Peak Hill,Central West NSW and we are doing the whole trip aounf Aussie. We have covered Qld and visited some interesting and not so interesting places,seen car...

Currently at Hervey Bay, Just noticed that the modem which was showing full signal strength on 3G, (6 bars) has now changed to 4G with one bar signal & still working fine while I was watching the google earth plane tracker video. Normaly one bar does not work. Is this going to be a better system when i...

Jep... ! thinking about getting one of these mobility scoother vehicles , some days I really need to be able to get about more than I am able to at the moment. Does anyone have any helpfull thoughts about these things in regards to type , size and on road issues. etc. Load it into my car by my...

Water pump together with gaskets arrived this morning, and all in place now. So its on the road in the morning bound for Katherine. Was originally heading for Borroloola, but now one more week behind, and we have some church work waiting for us in Katherine. Will have to try my hand at catching a Barr...

Gillard was asleep in her house and awoke to see Menzies' ghost. She asked, "Bob, how can I make this country better?" Sir Robert said, "Love the Japanese steel producers like I did."Gillard went back to sleep, this time she woke to an image of John Howard at the end of her bed. Sh...

Volcano stove erupting pre-barbecue: Prolly exceed the size limit, but I will work on fixing...

http://planefinder.net/ Check out this site, planes in flight world wide. Click on any plane for the details of destination, speed, height etc. Pick a flight close to its destination, click on it, from this window top RH corner the blue globe, watch flight in google earth. click this window & w...

I have been doing some research on Portable fridge freezes and have come up with the Evakool Fridgemate 95l ( Danfoss Compressor, 5 yr Warranty,Cheaper than other popular models and Queensland, Australian made or put together ). What do you think of the Fridgemate and what do you have ? As the Brisb...

Thanks to H and J *-- Edited by eerfree on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 05:02:28 PM*

Thanks to H and J -- Edited by eerfree on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 05:02:28 PM

The Irish Bic Lighter Mick and Paddy were fishing on the Irish shoreline when Mick pulled out a cigar. Finding he had No matches, he asked Paddy for a light. 'Ya, sure, I tink I haff a lighter,' Paddy replied and then reaching into his tackle box, he pulled out a Bic lighter 10 inches long. 'My God, man!...

My mum used to make what we called "doughboys" - like dumplings in stew. My sister loved them, but as I hated the things, she got mine too. Haven't seen or heard of these things for 50 years, but I found a recipe on the internet, and surprised my sister for Sunday lunch last week. I had the slow c...