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Haiti earthquakes, how long has it been, 11 days, 12, hell I forget but another "live" one was pulled from the rubble this morning just imagine, covered in concrete blocks, crushed beneath tonnes of rubble, no light, no sound, no food, no sign of being saved, no drink, no speech with other f...

Hi , I've just joined up ...am readying an ex tradie van for a trip maybe to Tassie first in early Autumn. I wanted to share with you something I've found...I live in a shed so am already living a camping life but not on the road yet. Bunnings have a super big black heavy duty plastic storage bin which makes a...

Yeaaaaah!!! Finally Roger has decided that as we go to Alice Springs in June, {looking for Zircons}, we will not be in any hurry to return home. That is the way we plan on easing into the mental side of retiring. I believe that, no matter how much you plan this, there is still a "settling in " si...

I would like to thank Lionel Mussell and Andrew Phillips with tracking down the history of my recently acquired Caprice Eclipse caravan. A couple of very smart and informed gentlemen, I thank you both.For those who may be interested in Eclipse pedigree, below are the findings from Andrew. I suspect...

Be gentle, I'm new here! Hi All, we have sold our motel and are picking up our Jayco Outback Discovery pop top in the first week of February, gettting excitited for our holiday (or gap year as hubby describes it) ( I like to call it managing our mid life crisis). No home base (so bad luck if we get sick of ea...

Having recently purchased a Caprice Eclipse (2000 model), we took it for test run to the Rollingstone caravan park just north of Townsville. Wonderful park and enjoyed our stay although we had to cut short a day because of the weather. Two problems became apparent with the van and I was wondering if an...

Hi all Thanks for all the information that was forth coming on this subject. I have fitted 2 * 120mm fans at the top vent and and 1 *120mm at the bottom vent all are controlled via a thermostat which is fitted on the fins at the back of fridge or can be manually controlled. Have filled in every space between...

After venting on the Sundowner Caravan Park at Port Macquarie, we feel we must comment on this lovely caravan park which is located about 19kms outside of Tamworth. We had a wonderful 9 days stay there. Internet access was hit and miss so I couldn't contact Kantiki while there, but otherwise it was...

I'm new to using a forum as of yesterday , can someone tell me how to find archives ? ... thanks, Denise :)

If this is true, I would have loved to have been there! I am led to believe,an incident occurred in a supermarket Recently, when the following was witnessed: A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (A black gown & face mask) was Standing with her shopping in a queue at the checkout. When it was her turn to b...

Hi There everybody , Ive just joined the site as you can see and am enjoying reading some of the wonderful stories, ive travelled all thru the middle of australia and from the bottom to the top end with a crew of four wheel drivers at the time and a jayco swan ,but since then i have moved married and am keen to...

G'day, I read earlier that some people were experiencing a problem with avatars not displaying, well all of a sudden I can no longer see any avatars or photo attachments but only on http://www.activeboard.com/forum Other fora I access I do not have a problem but on here I cannot even see photo's I h...

Hi all, This was the subject on a different forum. Some of us are gray nomads with the associated back problems, but we still need to park our vans which can be a a pain in the proverbial %&&^%. If anyone wants to, they can peruse the thread on http://www.caravanersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f...

Hi Guys, I recently had a small GIZMO put into the Fuel Line in my Totota Hi-ace Camper-van. This thing has 6 small magnets in it, and is supposed to : Prevent "pinging" when using unleaded petrol. [It was originally invented so that the inventor could use unleaded petrol in a car that...

it did no good hiding back there where it could be seen by limited folks so I took it by the hand and brought it in here Ma's perfect day................... "Not my idea of a perfect breakfast, but this is.................. The fact that I was fortunate enough to wake up TO HAVE BREAKFAST And so did...

One I love is Reverse Garbage in Sydney..easy to get to off Parramatta Rd.I'm making a shade cover to go over the roofrack out of street flags...4 for $20! Never know what will turn up next thats useful! www.Sciencedaily.com/ This is latest research published in all fields..great health stuff what a...

Well, Olga turned out to be a polite little lass. We had a little wind and rain but not much worse than a normal wet season day. Just blew over a couple of pot plants. Big Monsoon trough in place now right down to Mackay. Should get a sheitload of rain out of that. Ian

Doing a lot of rewire work on the van, setting up for free camping so all will be 12 volt or gas but still retaining the 240 system. I currently have a 240 volt power point under the seat which did operate a 240v to 12 volt transformer (thats comming out), I have thought about putting my inverter (300w I thin...

my wife elly and i are going to be joining all u lucky folk in about 2 years , sounds a long way off i think it will come around all to fast. our delemar is that we want t buy a duel cab the only ones that are available are the mits triton and the nissan navara both 2.6 litre. i have spaoken to both company's and th...

all I can say is she has got guts, and I hope she makes it been following her since day one ,I'd love to go solo around Aus , but I dunno about the sea? I'd be painting the deck all day http://jessicawatson.com.au