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A Grey nomad couple close to the start of grey nomad dream end in grief when the couple working there way around Australia . A women working has a stop go person on road works at Marlborough Queensland when hit by a truck and killed instantly her husband working on the same project is reported to have witn...

I pointed to two old drunks across the bar from us and told my mate, "That'll be us in another 10 years."He said, "That's a mirror, you dickhead."

Has any of my Grey Nomad friends used an ARK PAK battery system. We are thinking of doing a fair bit of free camping interspersed with caravan parks. IE 2-3 nights of free camping followed by 2-3 nights in a c/park. The maximum time of usage for a power source would be 2-3 nights. I have been reading about...

We had been driving over some very dusty roads out the back of Grafton N.S.W. and the zipper on the vynl back of the ute become stuck. After I had washed all the dust and dirt off I sprayed the zips with WD40 - worked like a charm. No more stuck zips.

Beaconsfield Showgrounds Camps6 #263 is similar to all the free camps down the West Tamar Highway in that the hours are between 5pm & 9am making for a quick stopover, nothing wrong with that but lacking in the fellowship that exists where longer stopovers are available. Beaconsfield has a huge a...

There are still some problems with forum pages being loaded from the computer's cache and not reloading properly. Until the computer geniuses at Sparklit (third party hosts of the forum) sort the problem I suggest hitting Ctrl F5 (that is the Ctrl key and the function key F5 at the same time) when a pag...

While travelling with sis & bil in Oct/Nov they were getting Seniors discount at many places where they wouldn't give me a Pensioner discount. I thought this was unfair, as I'm on a DSP, but someone pointed out that my card doesn't say DSP, it says Pension Concession Card, a card which is used b...

Those space invading oxygen theives are at it again, had a call today from a ?????? claiming to be from the head office of our bank, stating that we had been over charged on fees over recent years & the Dept of fair trading was onto them so fees had to be reimburst. They had our name, address & how lo...

Thanks Cindy, All working well in my case, Vic Edit, Edit......now it is kicking me off (log in) when I change from one GN forum section to another ?????? (Spoke too soon) and posting problems seems to have returned, was able to put an avatar back on though! -- Edited by Duh on Friday 18th of January 201...

Hi all, I am not sure if the problem with the forum was fixed yesterday but then and today I am having trouble posting a comment. I have to open the thread then hit "refresh" so my log-in stays put, otherwise it just disappears and doesn't allow me to comment

Man with caravan shoould not experience winter. Go north Man with caravan should not experience a heat wave. Go....................................!!

G'day, We have just sold our home purchase a large van and plan to live and travel till who knows when. Having bought a seconed hand van I didn't realise on how much we needed to buy before we could take off, as the only thing the seller left was the sullage hose. After many trips too and from suppliers and...

I must appologise for being rather talkative tonight, but it was 40+ degrees in the drill rig cab today and I've been cooling off with my favourite beverage.

There are still some problems with forum pages being loaded from the computer's cache and not reloading properly. Until the computer geniuses at Sparklit (third party hosts of the forum) sort the problem I suggest hitting Ctrl F5 (that is the Ctrl key and the function key F5 at the same time) when a pag...

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Hi John, I know you have some info on your blog regards the area East of Esperance, but in general what do you consider was the best free camping area or caravan park etc please. I have been to Esperance on several occasions, but have never explored the eastern side further than Frenchman's Peak (anothe...

We have had two reasons to recomment this mechanic. Late last year, we purchased from a store in Gawler, the gear we required to self-service our Nissan Patrol. Unfortunately, we picked up the wrong oil filter, and as the oil had been drained from the 4wd, were unable to go back to Gawler to change. We...

The National Parks have set up a new booking system at the Arakoon state recreational centre, ( Trail bay jail, south west rocks). According to local paper they introduced the new system about last Oct, The story is that people who had bookings for the 2012/13 xmas period arrived to find that they had...

Is anybody from the GN's down at the Illawarra Folk Festival? I am, if you want to meet and greet. I am camped in the middle of the field with the tents and have a grey Elite camper next to another identical grey Elite camper and I have a red Corolla. Sometimes there is a big black Hilux with Elite Products on...

Many of you may have followed the thread in techies on 12 volt fans fitted to fridges, which ended up being closed. If you did then you know that I done the recomended installation as set by Waeco , to which I then posted that I had some very good results, available via PM/email to which I supplied to many me...