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Ma


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Who's counting the days?   You can be sure we are.  Finally bound for Townsville.

Leaving next Sunday morning and will be away until around the 7th December.

The first stop is only about 60ks down the road. Spending 5 nights at Nelligen Big 4 with a whole bunch from our village.  We do this every year around this time.

Leaving Nelligen on Friday 23rd bound for Temora for the flying day on 24th.

Leave Temora on Sunday 25th and then as far as we have calculated will be heading via

West Wyalong
Dubbo
Gilgandra
Coonabarabran
Narrabri
Moree
Goondiwindi
Miles
Taroom
Theodore
Emerald
Clermont
Morandah
Mackay
Townsville

Spending from the 4th November till the 15th in Townsville and then heading back down the coast to home.

Any advice or recommendations, or otherwise, greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ma



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Happy Travels :D

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G'day Ma & Guru,

Take your time, enjoy your trip, be happy and return safe and sound.

John & Irona

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sounds like a good trip Ma

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yep, take your time and enjoy the ride, the destination is not important the trip is the good bit!

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Happy and safe travels  to you both

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Enjoy the trip. It sounds great and try to let us know how you are doing. Don't forget, Hervey Bay is on the coast on your return. Would welcome you. Lots of room, lots of refreshments. lol..... Drive safe.
Cheers

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have a great trip you two.
Did the Coonabarabran to Emerald section earlier this year. All good and worth seeing.
Are you free camping or c/parking? Coonabarabran will still be freezing in the mornings and the c/parks are close to the highway and very noisy from the trucks. 1st one in from the south is terrible, worst ive ever been in,although some work was being done when we were there.


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Ma


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Thanks to everyone for their good wishes.

John, we plan to free camp wherever possible and exactly where we stop is anybody's guess, just depends on when we have had enough for the day and decide to pull into camp.



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Thanks Del.  Will take you up on that and see you sometime mid to late November.  Will be good to put a face to the name.

Ma

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When in the vicinity of Clermont try the c/park at the Therese Dam, good fishing and clean air,
Whatever, have a good trip

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Ma


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Thanks Mike and Judy, Guru will be in his element.  You should see all the fishing tackle he plans to take.  Talk about overloaded van...............LOL

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evileyeevileyeevileye  Hi Guys,Camps 5 No 934 Terramungamine Reserve , just 6kls north of Dubbo & about 2-3 ks off the hwy.Beside rv with flush toilets, be early very popular.heard bad reports about parks in Dubbo.Water taps ,bbq,power points & parking in park beside INFO centre.We were told that people are allowed to plug in & charge batteries etc????? We were there a few weeks ago,
Safe travells.biggrinbiggrinbiggrin       JIM.

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Ma


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Thanks Jim.  If we were travelling to Dubbo on our own we would stay there for sure.  We will be travelling with another couple as far as Moree and he MUST have his  shower before beddies, so looks like a CVP in Dubbo.  We did stay at the Big 4 in Dubbo a few months ago and it wasn't too bad then.    Thanks again will keep it in my little black book for future reference as we go that way if we go up to my brothers place.

Ma

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Have a great trip. Can't help being envious of all the beaut adventures you will have. Take care out there, don't forget the sunscreen.

Terry.

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Hi All
Agree about Terramungamine. Fantastic spot and VERY popular.  Stayed there in April this year and arrived at about 3.30pm to find 8 caravans, 1 motorhome and a campervan already set up. 
Darryl wanted to keep going but I 'persuaded' him to 'just park the car and set up the campertrailer' smile.  After lots of 'discussion' we were set for the night.  Went for a great walk along the riverbank and watched all the major-mitchells find a roost for the night.  Watched them again next morning - setting out for the day.  Would have loved to stay and do some fishing but needed to get home.

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Hey Ma and Guru.
I'll do my best to persuade the whales to wait for you. OK? Theres plenty of them this year......should'nt be too hard.

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Chris, if time permits we might take a run up your way while we are in Townsville.  When are you going in for your OP?

Ma



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It would be great to meet you, if you do "pop" up this way.
I don't have a date yet, but I reckon you'd be up here before I get the call. We just keep track of dates and places and keep in touch. It's not too hare these days, eh?
I stayed at a park in Dubbo for a couple of days, on the road east near the truck stops. It was quite nice, facilities were ok, not too noisy, might have been the Big4. The other parks didn't look too good and were closer to the centre of town where all the "nocturnal action" is.
Just have a safe trip through some of my favourite country. Take your time. Cheers

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