It's hailing big time - had to move the new beast. They are golf ball size and getting bigger !!!
Picked up a 2nd hand Dual Cab O5 Hilux SR model, diesel, automatic the other week. Bit lower than the old ones but handles great, compared to the old Surf it does not have the centre diff lock and all the electronic gear but atleast I am confident that body panels & parts are available for this beast.
First trip was to celebrate me moving into another decade (not in the 30's now), so we planned to go white
water rafting on the
Nymboida River.
Left
Sydney 5pm arrived Coffs around 11:30 where we stayed at friends. Left Coffs at 6:45 and headed for the
Nymboida with Liquid Assets Adventures to go white
water rafting. It was great, the scenery excellent and
water just right, started at
Platypus Flat. A couple of my mates won't be going white
water rafting again (big girls) - worried about a few scratches that they got when they decided to fall out of their raft at the top of one of the larger rapids. Anyway towards the end of the trip is poured then hailed and this added to the thrill. We left the river at Cod hole and returned and set
camp at
Platypus Flat where we stayed 2 nights. It rained at Coffs big time and everytime it rained at
camp we were elsewhere - could not believe it, that whilst we sat around the campfire at night the rain stayed away, but we drowned ourselves anyway in a multitude of other beverages. Liloing down a small set of rapids in the morning also surely clears the head.
The hilux was great on and off road even with the very wet conditions. The wildlife great, we saw, heaps of black snakes and goannas, an angle headed dragon, lyrebird, a swamp snake,
water dragons and a Koala with a cub (which was a shoulder height).
We will be going here again, Cheers Beddo
PS. Glad I moved the car - otherwise it would have been very second hand.