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The most imaginative gift I got this year was from BIL who gave me a stack of "AUSTRALIA - IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU ARE FREE TO LEAVE" stickers.... I spent this morning at my local shopping mall affixing them to the vehicles of obviously non AUSTRALIAN drivers...... Also I seem to get a swathe o...

Hi Everyone As 'First Timers' to this Forum we would like to introduce ourselves - Bruce and Diane. Bruce has been involved in the Coach industry for 40 years while Diane's expertise lies in the field of administration & computers. Apart from travel, our interests are woodwork, cars, golf, f...

Hi All, Happy New Year to everyone. We are looking at buying a caravan to travell around Australia. We will have no time frame and want to see as much as we can. We are tending to go towards a semi off road van to enable us easier access to National Parks etc. we have looked at several brands and some, tha...

G,DAY Well we had our first outing with the van, hooked her on to the Holden away we went just a 11/2 hour drive on to a free camp on the Ovens river at BUNDALONG. Set up van ect near our kids and others then into the river great, got cold cramp hits out of water wind comes and stays for 4 days but...

Make sure the NSWNP, Dark Greens and NPA don't get a look at this black snake making a meal of the brown otherwise we will be looking down the barrel of a very expensive and drawn out tax payer funded research project to development an intervention program. The catchcry would certainly focus on '...

just finished booking our tickets on the good ship ss spirit of tasmania, heading out on the 31 jan 2009 back on the 11 feb 2009, should have 11 clear days over there by my reckoning, we were there about 10 years ago so about time we refreshed our memorys of the place anyone got any suggestions as to where to...

Question 1: I need the chemicals for the Thetford cassette toilet. Is there anywhere between Batemans Bay and Bega in NSW where I can buy what I need? And does anyone know if I can buy them on-line? Thanks in advance cheers

Happy new year to all forum members. May 09 be prosperous, full of adventure and safe travels.

Tourism NSW puts out a brochure titled 'Darling River Run'. Over the years, I have done bits and pieces of the Darling River but was thinking of doing the lot. The trip goes from Walgett to Wentworth with off the track detours to places of interest, e.g. National Parks, lakes, etc. I'm planning on le...

Festive season over, back to the drudgery of work..................bugger. 24 working days left before we hit the road for 5 months.

Hi everyone, I've missed you! I settled the sale of my home last Wed 17th and picked up my new Avan Ovation the same afternoon. In my next door neighbour's property for the school hols whilst I learn the ropes of this thing. Have just connected. And it's wonderful! Feels just like home. Which of course...

Just returned from South West Rocks (Mid North Coast NSW) Stayed at a the Top Tourist Park on Gordon Young Drive a great spot ,well laid out and maintained, close to everything that one needs and a few that I could have done without . Had ten days without the need to be overly security minded had the...

Merging lane changes are going into place for the xmas holiday season,26/27/28.December.Traffic will be very slow on those days.RTA have put temporary toilets and non drinking water containers at all pull over places.In a nut shell the Hwy north of Karuah will merge into one lane until Buladelah....

well thats that over for another year, thank god, now we can start to get the household back in to some sort of normallity (whatever that is) I hope you all had a great and safe xmas, we dont want to lose any gn's at this or any other stage, I must take this oppurtunity to make a correction, in one of my earlier...

Can anyone beat this? Brand new van, parked outside my home at 1630, last seen by me at 2200, gone next morning by 0830. Fortunately, it was located about 200 metres from home, with draw bar/tow hitch lock still in place. Attempted theft or prank - who knows? Naturally, I wanted better security so...

Mate has 2005 STD Nissan Patrol that has covered 80000 hard surface km's and is having suspension problems . Taken it to a couple of suspension mods and they are quoting anything from an arm and leg to a first born child to replace the coil suspension and shockies . Anyone out there having same prob...

Mate has 2005 STD Nissan Patrol that has covered 80000 hard surface km's and is having suspension problems . Taken it to a couple of suspension mods and they are quoting anything from an arm and leg to a first born child to replace the coil suspension and shockies . Anyone out there having same prob...

Well, the worst of it is over. The run up from Perth to Laverton was fine, as it was bitumen all the way. Laverton to Giles (more-or-less the WA/NT border) was mostly good, as good as a gravel road anywhere. From the NT border onwards, although the road was fairly good, there had been a lot of rain through...

The Taxi Driver This is a nice one!!! I arrived at the address where someone had requested a taxi. I honked but no one came out. I honked again, nothing. So I walked to the door and knocked. Just a minute answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a lon...

Can anyone recommend the best place to stay at Phillip Island? Haven't been able to find any free camps, any there?