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planning a trip back to cooktown, cairns and the daintree area of FNQ for about 6 weeks duration, last year we went but flew up and hired a 4wd in cairns for 3 weeks then flew home this time i want to drive up in my 4wd hilux towing a camper trailer, i was thinking a rather direct route adelaide to brisbane the...

Personally, I wouldn't drive anything else. Seems that the trend is towards automatic rather than manual cars though. Our tug is a Rodeo 4x4 Diesel Auto, and very happy with the choice. I spent a few years living in the U.S.A, and was a member of a fishing club. Everyone had a 4x4 and not one of them wa...

Hi guys - my shake down trip to Canberra has had a few "highlights" already. Ended up leaving a day later than planned and a few hours later in the morning, but hey lets go with the flow. The first night I stayed at Holbrook, nice quite little park. In the morning when I packed up ready to g...

As some of you may know we have an older van. 20 years old as a matter of fact but we wouldnt hesitate, if we could to go around Aust in it. Well as things happen we had a water leak and some mould inside and some rot. We found Ron Williams, from Brisbane Mobile Caravan Servicing, and he came out spent a wh...

Where Have You Been???I've been to a lot of places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I've also never been in Cognito, either. I hear no one recognises you there. I have, however, been in Sane. They don't have an airport - apparently you...

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This was taken during the Rocky Fires, a couple of years ago. Cheers, Sheba. -- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 18th of May 2011 07:23:54 PM

Rodney and his Mrs in Derby, carving boab nuts, beautiful.

Wynnum, Brisbane. My grandson is in red on the left.

Wynnum pool, Brisbane.

Hi Everyone, We have been following a few intrepid Aussie Nomad blogs and wanted to connect with them by using Google's Friend Connect...but whenever we try to join it tells us either Error 404 or 'Cannot connect to site' etc etc. It very frustrating and I cannot work out the reason. We are using Mozill...

Easy to make antenna I made years ago, It works fine with Digital as well. Parts are 2x Aluminum tubing 500mm long & 16mm OD. 2x Plastic tubing 500mm long & 20mm OD. Tee piece & 2x Blanking caps. 2x S/S screws. Antenna Balun. Cable & plug. On my antenna the round black object is the Balun....

its nice to see the new buds of flowers in the morning drew

My second trip is for 2 nights at Sandalwood Van & Leisure Park and here I am using a gas lamp to see because I took a powerless site. Will post more when the outing has finished but this time I was better prepared and am looking to see how my prepareations will hold out this time. Can't touch type so it is...

Hi Everyone, I've just joined Grey Nomads, and am hoping that someone can help me with my problem. I am contemplating buying a 2008 Hilux SR dual cab 4x4, with approximately twenty thousand dollars of extras. They are not modifications like suspension, engine or wheels. The Hilux has ARB bullbar wi...

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Friends, I am going away for a few weeks. I don't have a working notebook pc anymore & even if I went out and splurged on one, I don't have the other thingy for mobile internet, actually I don't really want one either, had one before, it drove me nuts. I vaguely recall putting my heal through it after...