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As part of the 150 year celebration celebration Queensland rail is sending a train on 11 regional trips over a 5 month period. Travelling as far north as Cairns, west to Mt isa and south to Wallangarra. We were in barcaldine when the train came in last night to much fan fare. I have attached a couple of pic...

The marriage of an 80 year old man and a 20 year old woman was the talk of the town. After being married a year, the couple went to the hospital for the birth of their first child.The attending nurse came out of the delivery room to congratulate the old gentleman and said, 'This is amazing. How do you do it a...

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The mobile home had her first outing since being parked here at christmas, ticking over like one of Basils clocks, bedroom almost done ,and shower had to cut horizontally to get it in, refibre glassed and is now awaiting the pipes Am mulling over tanks to install, S/S, plastic, and also where would be...

Here is a link of the ATTM & CC site of dump points for Black Water and Grey water around Oz. For new RV travellers who may not know, Black water is toilet holding tank contents water and Grey water is from holding tanks for shower and sink water. See; http://www.atcmcc.org.au/clubnews.php?new...

Well we are back home after our trip that took us as far as Winton.Mind boggling would be a good way to describe Australia and its vastness.We used Camps 5 to our full advantage.We started off from North Arm Cove NSW thence to Northaven,Grafton and then inland.Originally our plan was to go down south to...

Well it is still raining here, has been now since Tuesday. I did manage to get out into the garden to weed early this morning but the rain beat me. Even Max (my dog) had the sense to come inside out of it, I kept weeding until the rain was too heavy. Yes, half my neighbours think I'm crazy and the other half...

G'day all, Regarding Moderators for the forum if we all treat each other with respect as has been the case in the past, then I cannot see the need for Moderators. Cindy, our Webmistress does a wonderful job of controlling things on this forum and we have not needed to have anyone else telling us what we c...

2 weeks and 2 days, and she is off the long lead, she now knows where home is but I had to find out the hard way, about 2 Ks away we have an area that is known as the flood plain, we include it her walks as it is a pretty good place for roos and guinea fowl, and she was continually tugging to get to them, as the grass i...

Thanks also for my sticker...received it today...can any one tell me the best place to display it ...on the front or back of my van/vehicle...as a I have only one I want to display it in the best possible spot so it can be noticed Thanks so much.

Hi everyone,Injune Qld is beautifully dry and warm (got my best singlet on). Will be looking around Carnarvon Gorge for a couple of days as I journey north-west to wherever Im going (?)cheers

can anyone recommend places to stay,free or van parks,from mt isa -alice springs-coober pedy and woomera.never been down this road and doing this trip from townsville early september.have 8 weeks to do this trip and will work out which way to come home depending on the amount of time we spend at vari...

Apparently CG thinks my posts are patronising, although my posts are directed more at people new to RV'ing rather than those who are experienced. Many new people would not know where to look for information or do not have Camps4/5. See CG's comments; "Vic, it would appear you have far too muc...

hi all sorry if this upsets any body but what happened to dave ? i have not been on here for a while been over seas. hope nothing bad has happened to one of the few good guys around ! regards al

Thought I had posted this but obviously not. Looking for a user assessment of the ICom 440 UHF radio. Like the set up of the 440 having the guts of it under the seat and the working bit all in the Mic Combo. I would also be interested in hearing comments on any other split system that is contained in the mic...

Hi to all We are new to the nomad way of life,about to start our journey next monday.We have a pop top jayco van with ample storage,I dont know if I have been packing toooo much stuff.What did you all do when you first started out? Kathryn

Does anyone take a bread maker with them when they travel for any extended periods and is it worth it.

A duck hunter was out enjoying a nice morning on the marsh when he decided to take a leak..... He walked over to a tree and propped up his gun. Just then a gust of wind blew, the gun fell over, and discharged... shooting him in the genitals. Several hours later, lying in a hospital bed, he was approached by h...

I reckon that Wombles quote Re.Dave 06 and the delightful Dragon would have to qualify for the Post of the Year..Cheers.Ibbo

hi guys and gals just thought I would tell you about an iteresting interlude that happened to us last weekend I had a minor vehicular inconvienience just up the road from a place called port Pirie in south australia at the foot of the magnificent flinders ranges (cracked subframe on the van) after a...