Good stuff Ray......love your blog.....probably do something similar......
1143 days for us.....
March 2020....
It cannot come soon enough
Our plan is a caravan...off road....but still planning size etc.
Will tow with the most likely........Toyota
So we can count down together........might even catch up with you on a weekend away
James & Pauline
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I Remember It ...............All Too Well
Wherever the four winds blow. I'm restless, I'm ready
Thanks Bushpie. 1252 for me but I might pull the pin earlier. son living os and likely to produce my first grandchild so might pop over there before I depart.
Hi Ray I like to hear these pieces of pure gold. We are off in May heading your way over the top for winter so will write it down in my book to visit. May see you over there. Kim and Gary
Hey, don't tell too many people.
We love Shannon Mill, 40klm out of Manjimup and Cane Break, between Margaret River and Busselton. Both very quiet places.
Neil
I checked with DRAW last week and the Shannon Camp Area should be open before Easter. It is being upgraded so don't know if they are keeping the Wood Heater, but having hot showers & flushing toilets in a NP was great.
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A diesel Nissan Pathfinder towing a Coromal Element 542.
Ray, Did you post your picture from a phone of tablet? You need to orient the phone/tablet the same way as you took the picture when you are posting it to a forum.
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PeterD Nissan Navara D23 diesel auto, Spaceland pop-top Retired radio and electronics technician. NSW Central Coast.
Nice bit of rhyme Ray, thanks for it. Brought back memories of a pleasant country drive. We discovered Trigwell Bridge quite a few years back when we were scouting around for places to fish for redfin on the upper Blackwood River, but found the water had gone too salty and muddy up that high. Sad though that they could catch reddies up that way in the old days - maybe still, after very good rains. Water quality is a huge issue in the WA wheatbelt.
Hey, perhaps we should have a poetry thread. We had a flash of madness on our recent (first) caravan trip to the eastern states, when we came up with some dreadful verses to pass the time on the road. Swore we'd do more of it, but never did. Great fun though, and passes time. Publishing here just might upset our South Oz friends however. As usual, the majority wouldn't deserve the serve we scribbled after we'd just come through the Big Storm and Big Blackout of last September. We were thankfully unscathed and actually enjoyed our forced stay in Ceduna. And beyond! Great trip!
Ray, Did you post your picture from a phone of tablet? You need to orient the phone/tablet the same way as you took the picture when you are posting it to a forum.
Peter, I took the picture on my I Phone, right way up, and then I emailed it to myself and downloaded it to my laptop and that's the way it came out. I have been into the picture program on laptop and found the rotate button so will be able to fix in future. Thanks
Only 1919 days for us....as I sit here at work thinking about it......possibly not the best thing to do....but on the bright side is under 2000 days now!!
Only 1919 days for us....as I sit here at work thinking about it......possibly not the best thing to do....but on the bright side is under 2000 days now!!
That'll be a long 5 years.
When I told my lot at work that I was retiring, they said 'You're a workaholic, you won't be able to hack it. You'll be back inside 3 months". "What are you going to do"?
Not having thought much about it I replied .. 'I'm going Caravanning'.
So to keep faith I went out & got a 4WD & ordered a Van.
We've still got both after almost 20 years.
I used to ring them at work from all round Australia just to remind them that I was not coming back. I can still recall one such call while lying in the sun on a rock just near the old Whaling Station at Albany watching a whale breaching in the distance. Magic. Beats working.
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BTW, I always take a volume or two of good Aussie poetry with me when I get on the road. Nothing like an old favorite by ABP or HL while watching a bush sunset with a coldie or two.
Unfortunately I don't have the skill of the OP to write my own. Well done Ray.
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I cannot wait till I possibly can do the same, five years will pass by, watch my plans turn belly up when the political/politicians factor changes things yet again re goal posts.
