Storage for car and camper in Darwin
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 22, 2007 at 23:08
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Big Kidz (Andrew & Jen)
Hi everyone.
"We are travelling along this highway/road/track and would like to know what to see along the way to
Darwin from Melbourne" or "We are travelling along a route and would like to know if there are any
places we should miss???"
The other question I have is about storing our car and camper in
Darwin. My parents were going to drive them home after we fly home to
Melbourne but they have been invited to a wedding in USA and think that is a better option. Go Figure. So now we might either have them drive it home some time later or they might fly back after the wedding and pick it up and drive it home.
I notice that there are a few
places in
Darwin that you can store a car but one of the storage
places was asking around $100 per week and not seven sure if it would fit in their shed. I don't really care if it is outside for a couple of months but would like to make sure that it is safe. Surely there are people who fly south for the summer and store stuff up there for quite a long time who might be able to give us the heads up. Probably get only offers to drive our car back for us - NO.
Andrew
Reply By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 00:45
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 00:45
Advertise it on eBay.
Should be lotsa folks that'd look afta it for ya.
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Reply By: Willem - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:17
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:17
Children
Google is your friend.....LOL
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Alloy c/t - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:16
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:16
Easter must be coming up , everybody fishing as per post 43536. LOL
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Reply By: Member - beachbum - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:53
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:53
try Lee Point van
park for storage.
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Reply By: Kumunara (NT) - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:23
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:23
"We are travelling along this highway/road/track and would like to know what to see along the way to
Darwin from Melbourne" or "We are travelling along a route and would like to know if there are any
places we should miss???"
Hard question to answer without knowing what route you are taking from
Melbourne to
Darwin. If you are going through SA try going through the
Flinders Ranges. You could spend weeks in the Flinders. Then consider the
Oodnadatta Track as an alternative to the Blacktop. You could then see Lake Eyre, etc.
In the NT you could do a detour and visit Ularu and
Kata Tjuta. In the
Alice Springs regions there is a lot to see. Don't miss Kings Canyon.
Katherine Region - make sure you see the
Katherine Gorge.
Litchfield Nation
Park.
Have I missed anything - yes there are Hundreds of
places worth seeing?
"Surely there are people who fly south for the summer "
We don't have a summer in the top end. We have a wet and a dry. The wet is the best time of the year. The tourist don't know this and most only come in the dry.
Tjilpi
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Follow Up By: Des Lexic - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 13:41
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 13:41
I see you didn't offer to store the van and camper at your place. It would provide a serious upgrade for your place by having a Yota parked in your driveway. LOL
Bad luck that your in
Katherine as I can personally vouch for them. They are really nice people.
Andrew, I'll ring a mate in
Darwin tonight and see what he can find out.
Cheers
Des
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Follow Up By: Willem - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 14:12
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 14:12
Hahahah Tjilpi
"We are travelling along this highway/road/track and would like to know what to see along the way to
Darwin from Melbourne" or "We are travelling along a route and would like to know if there are any
places we should miss???"
Andrew was having a dig at me re post 43536.
How high is river this time at
Katherine?
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Kumunara (NT) - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 22:01
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 22:01
Willem
We have been having a fair bit of rain lately. River got up to about 13.5 metres on Thursday and has fallen a bit since then. It is on 11.35 metres at 20:08 hrs and still falling.
It is a far cry from the riverland where I checked my tanks to see if I had enough rainwater left. Here I check the river levels and tindall radar on the BOM site to see if I have to evacuate to higher ground.
Tjilpi
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Follow Up By: Willem - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 22:13
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 22:13
Tjilpi
Must be something to see again.
Was looking at pic today of me wallowing in the
water down at the Low Level... a favourite place of ours.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Kumunara (NT) - Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:01
Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:01
Willem
You would not be able to wallow in the
water at the Low Level at the moment. It is closed and about 10 metres of
water over it.
I don't know if you have been to the NT in the wet but it is something to see. Coming up from the Riverland and getting a years rainfall in one day is worth seeing.
There are a few frill necks about so the wet has almost finished.
Tjilpi
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Follow Up By: Willem - Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:13
Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:13
Hi Tjilpi
Lived in
Darwin,
Batchelor,
Adelaide River for 17 years and
Alice Springs for 3 years.
Seen some big fella waters in the wet and have been stuck behind a number of rivers. Also did some memorable wet season trips, such as the boat run from South Alligator Bridge to Cooinda following the paint tins hung in the trees.
Been bogged more times than I care to remember going
camping in the wet season
Go to my website www.kempen.id.au, click on 4x4 and then a story called One Day in the Wet.
When the dragonflies come out, the wet is over. You can still get rain however up to the end of April. Have been flooded out in July as
well!!!
Many memories
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Steve T (NT) - Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:26
Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:26
Frillies come out at the start of the wet and hide in the top off trees in the dry.
I herd Yamidj the green grasshopper in Hays
Creek the other night, so 2 more weeks of the wet, then 2 weeks of dry, then knock em downs, then the dry.
Cheers Steve.
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Reply By: Willem - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 14:25
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 14:25
Andrew
Take me with you to
Darwin and then I will drive your rig back to the Big Smoke.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Gob & Denny - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 21:00
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 21:00
hey willem its only a tojo so you can drive it like you stole it
steve
ps it will need a shed to store in being a tojo
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Follow Up By: Willem - Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:15
Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:15
LOL Steve
Hey Andrew, whaddya say???
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