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Only a small park but have fitted a lot in here tonight. Not listed in any book. Not advertised along the way. $25/night powered. Clean toilets and showers.

We have never booked a site until this year we have found the caravan park we make our base at by chance we rang them just to make sure we could have the site we had last year, it was a good job we did as its been full ,and had to go into the over flow until a power site became available.IT seems Tumling waters is g...

Watched Q&A last night with Julia Gillard. During the programme a lady came on to have a bitch about there not being enough handed out to her and other "middleclass" Australians. When asked about her definition of middleclass and what her and her husband earned, it b3ecame obvious th...

We were all set to move off from here (Atherton NQ) this morning but instead at 5am I had to rush my chauffeur to the hospital. He was in agony. Diagnosis is a kidney stone. He's staying there over night. See what tomorrow brings.

Some years ago, the problem of wanting to go along some of the well known, and not so well known, off road tracks, (eg.) firm sandy beaches etc, was solved for me by a firm in Jolimont, WA. Our RV at the time was a Mazda "pop top" with a four cylinder diesel donk. My partner really wanted to travel...

Got to Karumba this morning after free camping at Bang Bang rest stop. You have to on the ball as the stops do not have names so keep an eye on the klms from previous town othwise you will miss it Karumba is booked out so have an unpowered site, and going on a fishing charter tomorrow and hopefully get some...

Has anyone come accross this type of suspension? I have tried to post a pic to show details. It appears to have only one set of springs each side. This is on a van I have an interest in, and the rest of the van appears to be what we are looking for. I have only seen pics, not the van itself, as the manufactures ar...

Well ive been here for four days now and its still raining We went into the city today on the train i love the part through thr Hawksbury river ,had high tea in the queen vic building was realy nice My radiation burn is slowly getting better ,however i still have pain in the area Of the operation im loo...

Loving white towels, I naturally took them away with us to the RED centre. Big mistake, no matter how well we washed they appeared grubby and particularly after using some caravan park machines. I will now be buying rust coloured towels for future trips, but one good thing has come out of our trip, is...

We are heading home to Brisbane soon to meet our new grandson and looks like we will need to store our van for a couple of weeks. Does anyone have anywhere they would recommend in the Brisbane area (preferably in the northern suburbs but not detrimental). Cheers MadenAus

The old, blind and brave cowboy An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke? The bar immediately falls absolutely silent....

A young ventriloquist is touring Sweden and, one Night, he's doing a show in a small fishing town. With his Dummy on his knee, he starts going Through his usual dumb blonde jokes. Suddenly, a blonde woman in the fourth Row stands on her chair and starts shouting, "I've heard enough ofyour stupid...

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Ok all you snake lovers. I had to kill one the other day, but am having trouble identifying it. Thought at first it was either a Black Whip, or a Tree Snake, but it doesn't look quite like any of the ones in the books I have here. Can you identify it please ? Rear half of underbelly is Grey/pink. Ivory f...

can a 2wd territory travel the savannah way(in dry season) what is lpg availability like,and free camping availability.plus we have a dog can we do it without going into national parks??

Have been using old school shade cloth to date, but now need to upgrade and was in a camping shop today where they were selling a 'Roman RV" product which appeared to be a rubberised material, open weave and priced between $70 - 100 depending on size. Just wondering if anyone has used this type of fl...

Doesn't this sound like good advice?

Mobile-Home pensioners to lose up to $4900 a year. Jenny Macklin's office confirms that Pensioners failing Centrelinks draconian Asset assesment on self funded caravan and mobile home-owners will have their pension cut by $4900 per year whilst maintaining a loop hole exemption for retirement h...

Daryl and I are hoping to head off for W.A. around about March 2013, has anyone any tips for the trip? Also what can you tell us about solar panels, are they worth the cost and which ones? Best wishes , Gloria & Daryl. -- Edited by Wandering Whitfields on Friday 15th of June 2012 08:24:19 AM

After speaking to a few truck drivers, and from my own experience, these parking bays are NOT for caravans and motor homes overnight parking. These areas have been developed for the truck drivers to take scheduled rests as part of their fatigue management obligations. Oversize vehicles can only mo...