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Just put my girl into Beaches Pet Resort Townsville. What can I say I want to move in with her . I have doubts if she will want to come back to the van . Aircon Cabin, swim session doggy walks turbo tub. If this is a dogs life I want to come back as a dog. Thr prices are reasonable compared to other which pro...

Anyone heading North along the Princes Highway between Bateman's Bay and Ulladulla (and the reverse of course) take care. A bush fire state of emergency has been declared about 2ks south of Ulladulla. Water bombing helicopters and fixed wing planes as well as dozens of fire tankers are in attendan...

I love this forum,but that camel staring at me every time I log on is making me feel like Abdul the Camel driver.Anyone else feel this way?LOL.Cheers Ibbo.

A man is in bed with his wife when there is a knock at the door. He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's 3:30 in the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and rolls over. Then a louder knock follows. "Aren't you going to answer that?" says his wife. So he dr...

Have any of the wise bods out there had any experience of fitting a water purifier in the van? I am reasonably handy with a spanner, but would like to know how easy or hard this would be ??? Magnarc.

I run IObit ADVANCED System Care V3 and found a link to the newer IObit 360 Security. Found some nasty stuff, 190 files in all of malware etc and deleted it and also lets you stop popups and hijacking, you know you go looking for something and another totally unrelated site pops up invariably related to e...

Stevie Wonder and Tiger Woods are in a bar. Tiger turns to Stevie and says, 'How's the singing career going?' Stevie replies, 'Not too bad. How's the golf?' Woods replies, 'Not too bad, I've had some problems with my swing, but I think I've got that right, now.' Stevie says, 'I always find that when my s...

Did You Know This About Leather Dresses? Did you know that when a woman wears a leather dress, a man's heart beats quicker, his throat gets dry, he gets weak in the knees, and he begins to think irrationally??? Ever wonder why? It's because she smells like a new Ute!

Next week we are heading over to the eyre Pen via the Barossa to visit stepson and family. Thought we would take a different route towhat we normally do. Going from Corowa to Swan Hill to Ouyen then to Pinaroo. Then thought we would go across to Loxton then to Swan Reach across on the ferry and to Baross...

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Hi Guys, In the hills to the west of Fingal Bay there is currently a large bushfire, running uncontrolled with a stiff westerly behind it. The township has been put on notice to evacuate. The NSWFB currently have six pumpers there and numerous RFS tankers committed. Hope all goes well there to anyone w...

Have any members heard of Oz Tech caravans/poptops? Any info would be appreciated including a link to them if known. Cheers .... Alan

did anyone see the four corners program last night about the suicide tourists who are going overseas to die in a dignified manner myself I think this should be a decision that could be undertaken here in australia, my life, my decision it looked to be a very calm, safe and dignified way to end ones suffer...

when travelling , what do you do with your mail, im told at our post office they can keep it for upto 3 months of you get crook and have to go to a doc or hospital, do you take your medical history with you? also are cv parks ok with longer stays than say a few days? say if you feel like staying a month or 2? also wha...

Hi all, For about the past two weeks I have been having problems with the site in that the emoticons (smiley faces etc) do not show up. All I get is a box outline with a red cross in the corner and the words saying what is supposed to be there (when incorporated in a post). When I am in the new posting site all...

Made it to Townsville from Winton Good road all the way, used the Kennedy Development road , better that most NSW roads we call highways. Apart for a small section just before Stamford , which I thought for a moment I was back in NSW, the roads so far are excellent. Average passing 250 vans per day ( 7 hou...

What indeed are the little tags.starting to give me a complex lol.Can anyone give an answer.Cheers.Ibbo,

knocked off for the day, went out to the shed, sat down with a cuppa to count my blessings heard a little rustling, scuffling,scraping sound, looked down between my legs and a 6' - 7' king brown was looking back, he would have been a good 2 1/2" maybe 3" round, a big barstard!! oh dear!! I tho...

Another fatal accident this time out near Boggabri. This one involved a ute towing a caravan. Thankfully the two occupants are still alive. Please folks, take care. It's not always us in our vans, as in this case - the "other bloke" can be just as dangerous. Drive Safe and be careful. Ma

Hi all you very happy GNs - was just wondering as we intend to be on the road fulltime after retiring August 2010, I believe to qualify for a health care card for medications one has to be at least getting $1.00 from centerlink payments at least. Does anyone know of this situation, we will be supporting ou...