Just bought Feb. 4X4 Aust Mag - Why Why Why ?

But wait Footie - it gets better !

I just read the in depth coverage of off-roading in Victoria which is featured on page 100 .

This quality article ( again by Mr Moon ) is a searching study titled
" CHOICE CUTS .......For a small state , Victoria parks in a wide variety of camping and off-roading . Ron and Viv Moon give you a run-down on what's on offer in the Garden State "

One and a half pages of copy covers Victoria - yeh it must be a small state . So few parks , so little scope for 4Wd driving down there , no wonder their moving to Queensland !

More quality journalism .

One and a half pages doesn't even cover the flak I get from our southern mates :))
No wonder I haven't been back too often...its probably shrunk...I probably need Oziexplorer to find it these days LOL

Willie, it is what isn't in the mag that is even better than what is there too. Save the dollars and buy the diesel. Bit of a pity that the lightening shortened the list of places for a year or three though. Have to head off into South Aussie and have a look at where their puddles have formed. They will be better than the mag too.....

hi Dunc ,
Yes I have the book and I agree , it's excellent . That's why I can't understand how he can write such lightweight bumpf in the mags . Maybe they demand crap , so that's what he gives them - we all have to earn a crust - but surely he can't enjoy it .
Willie

Andy

I am a self confessed gadget junkie and like buying the mags to look for any new write-ups or ads . So I keep buying them , then I spit the dummy and have a whinge on here . It's a bit like Groundhog Day - you know your going to hear this rant again if you hang around long enough .

Will I never learn ? Apparently not says my wife - I'm a slow learner .

Cheers

Not many people must have a whinge on here - "whinge" is not recognised by the Spell Checker.

Hi Willem ,

I met Ron in Durba Springs last winter . He was a nice bloke surprisingly . Most writers are real over the top " I ams ".

I spoke to that young bloke last week and he is still keen for a mid March departure . I hope he can make it , but nothing is certain , because of health problems in the family .

I am keeping my fingers crossed .

How you wheely bin ? I knocked back an unsolicited offer for the "Queen of the desert" today .

Willie .

Yeah I am OK

Got the truck down to a lean mean machine less Roofrack, tubeless tyres and flares.

Still at Warraweena for a week maybe, then home. Apart from EO weekend in July I am lying low this year until we go to Tassie in November.

No , if you check the archives it will become obvious that I am someone who does not learn from his mistakes . I am a serial mag ranter .

Hi Shaker ,

Let me guess . A seventeen page guide to the High Country would be made up of four and a half pages of travelogia , half a page of facts and twelve pages of happy snaps which would include :
Snap of a family standing around like half wits , looking at a creek .
At least two snaps of vehicles doing river crossings .
At least two snaps of a line ups of the intrepid traveller's cars .
Campfire snap with a camp oven in use .
A couple of mountain landscape snaps .
A snap of old mine workings with bored kids in foreground .
A snap of a flat tyre .
A snap of semi tame wildlife with bored kids in foreground .
A ruined hut with bored kids in foreground .
A snap of an old bridge .
A snap of the fellas watching a vehicle negotiate a steep section .
A snap of the camp including tents and campers (loaned by advertisers) .

Shaker ,

If you still have the mag , let me know how I scored .

Willie

Willie,

Didn't you just copy and paste your last rant from the one you did last year when you were suckered into buying it for the Vic High Country guide?????????????

ha ha ha ha ha

Kev

Kev ,
Could have been . I get old timers disease and I lose the plot a bit - I think .
Willie .

Willie 11/12

I Agree.

Used the Cape York guide and wondered if the author had actually been there. It had so many errors!

Banjo (WA)

Would someone be kind enough to post or PM the name, or a close hint, or this guide book. Post is better. I know people don't like to bag things, but I'm sure there are a lot of people on this forum, me included, who are quite likely to buy this guide and set off without knowing it's inaccurate.

Cheers,
John

John if your talking about the Kimberley one its: THE KIMBERLEY- AN ADVENTURER'S GUIDE by Ron & Viv Moon. Look also for A guide to the Kimberley Coast Wilderness - north western Western Australia by Len Zell.
I bought both these books off of ExplorOz.
Another basic but interesting reference book is the Great Stay Guide - Surviving the Outback - A Guide to Australia's Nother Territory and Kimberley.

Use the books as a reference and then rely on your maps etc for distances

i read a trip report about the Kimberly (overlander I think)which Could have been a cut and paste of any of the many. It was proved to be just that when the author spoke of Komodo dragos at the Wyndem croc farm - they hadnt been there for a few years

David ,

I will be in the Kimberley from about 24 May for a month . We will be in a silver Landcruiser and a silver Prado .

It would be good to meet you ,

Willie .

We are back in Alice on the 30th. So probably at the Western end of the GRR by the 24th. We will keep an eye out for you. We will be in a white Patrol wagon accompanied by a number of vehicles.

Bonz ,

You have a heart bigger than the great outdoors . I'll let the missus know that the money is on the way - somewhere . She was really angry when I spent my lunch money on 4WD mags .

WARNING - WARNING - Scammer Alert ********

Are you trying to finance an upgrade to that box on wheels of yours Bonz ???? I'm getting very worried about you crying poor mouth lately.

Or is it just a smokescreen because you already have a replacement on the way ????????

Out of concern for Willie and his misguided acquisition I simply offer a way out and you try and turn it into a scam to buy new wheels HA! The Mighty Nissan is going great guns and shall outlast even me

Hi John ,

Yes , I have read it . I enjoyed it as a read , but the info. was of a very general nature .

I was up there last May, but only for a two week reconoitre . We have a good idea where we want to go and what we want to see , but I am searching for more info. on good rock art sites .

We have two cars and are equipped for bear !

Cheers ,

Willie .

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