So where did we all go for the break????

Hello T-Ribby,

Silverside is also an essential when we head off on a trip. One old bloke around here used to call it "Red Gum". Nothing better for those holiday sandwiches!!

Viv

Hi Pete
I went to the site Geocaching, This is the first time I have heard of this Game,are there many placed in Australia, and are they in all states.
Any help would be great .

Geocaching - the sport of using billions of dollars of American military hardware to find a Tupperware container hidden in the bush.

A geocache is a container containing a log book and depending on size a collection of cheap "swaps."

The challenge is to locate the container with your GPSr, record your visit in the cache log, swap something in and out and then record your visit on line at the geocaching web site. The site has help pages for newcomers to the sport.

There are over caches 3,000 in SA alone with more being placed all the time. I would not be surprised if you could find at least one within 500m of your driveway - there are 15 within 2 km of mine. I have sent you an email with a file and some instructions to display the caches near you.

It is an interesting pass time and it has taken us to places we would never have found otherwise. A lot of caches are placed on a point that the owner has found interesting for various reasons.

We have only visited 247 over NSW, VIC, TAS, NT and SA but there are Australian geocachers who have visited over 4,000. We have only gone on one dedicated geocaching trip - last weekend. Usually we just stop and visit a few if we are passing them close by.

Looking at your rig profile you have everything you need to get going. A laptop/PDA with OziExplorer makes it easy. A handheld GPS makes finding the final location easier.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Pete

Hi Pete

Thanks for the Email , It sound Like a lot of fun,as I travel by myself mostly.

There is a Australian geocaching site as well

geocaching.com.au/

Read why it was created by disgruntled geocaching.com members here

virtual-cyberspace.com/

Cheers
Greg

G'day Willie,

perfect weather further south, we could even see Kosciuszko from Mt Tingaringy. Yeah then got home to find the water tank full (3300 gall.)

Hey Willie
You still looking for Aboriginal stone carving and the like??
There's some interesting areas in the Yengo N/P, around Devils Rock (Burragurra) and Finchley. Some good 4WDing too !!

Thanks Signman ,
I just Googled Burragurra and it said that it was closed off to vehicles and you walked in . I have not found out how far the walk is yet .
Anyway this year I am definitely going to Yengo .
Thanks ,
Willie .

Devils rock is approx a 5 to 10 min walk !! All uphill but very easy going though !!

Willie how did you go with Ryde TAFE for the Aboriginal carvings.

G Day Trev.
Yep we only had the car to go away with thanks to our super mechanic!
It wasn't the fuel pump at all, It was the computer that had burned out.
So in with a new computer, hand over cash, lets blow this joint...
Sorry to hear the weather wasn't on your side tis trip.. just as well you did take the van and not tent it hey!

We had the wind on Straddie but were lucky with the rain only light spits occasionly and one real heavy one driving back to camp on main beach, couldnt see a thing in front and thought how was camp going to be and it was still dry. We did have one heavy one at camp on Sunday night but we put the tarp up over the fire so we continued cooking tea and sampling the red.
We watched the grey skies out to sea on many occasions and wondered where they were going to hit, I thought it would have been top of Moreton but they must have gone further north and hit you as well.
Was glad we were camping back well behind the beach as the trees protected us from the wind just made it impossible to fish on the weekend.
Robyn

It gets so tempting to string a "washing line" near your camp when they do that.

Pete

"Gentle breeze" on the NW coast equates to "howling gale" anywhere else ;-))

Yep.. seeing all the stars with no light pollution.. thats what we'd been wanting!

Hey Brian..
Our plan was to actually ead up to a friends property at Amamoor and camp on there by the creek with no one else around on the friday. We didn't end up getting on the road on friday we decided we'll leave saturday, but on the friday night we decided we wanted to go south so I had a look through a thread about where others were going, I saw Vinces post and that was how I heard of Mann River. We left saturday and spent sat night a Kings Plains and headed to Mann River on the sunday morning. Got the perfect spot there because someone else had not long left. It wasn't until camp was set up that we drove further down the road and saw all the camping along there. I really liked it down there. We left on monday arvo around 4pm, stopped at Glenn Innes etc and actually hit the road to drive home at 6pm. I hated having to come home! I don't want to be here stuck in the suburbs!!!!!!!!!

Vince.... looked at your rig page and see you drive a Pajero.... wouldn't be green would it? On our way east along the Old Grafton Rd on Sunday we passed 3 green Pajero's heading west, all near the "Y" in the road...........

Was one of them you?

Cheers

Brian

Hi Brian.
No. My pajero is white. Must place some photos on my profile.
Vince

Hi Vince, never heard of Cangai. I replied to Brian above, we pulled into Mann River and found a great spot cause someone had left, we went for a drive after camp was set up and saw you could camp further up the road. Is that where you were? When we left monday night we drove home the way we came in, through Glenn Innes, Tenterfield, Stanthorpe, Ipswich etc so we wouldn't get caught in any traffic, and knowing that all it would take is one accident to stop the highway. We never saw one EO sticker anywhere on our travels. On our way home we stopped for a coffee and fuel up and ran into a family with their patrol that had broken down. The water pump went. They weren't going anywhere! Had a chat with them and we moved on, but I felt bad that there wasn't anything we could do to help them, they were all in good spirits tho.
Cheers
Jo

Hi Jo.
Cangai is on the Gwider highway, approx 63 nw of grafton & 96km east of Glen Innes.
If you drove via Glen Innes, you would have turned off well before Cangai. If you are going back that way again, try Cangai. There are two areas where you can camp(totally self sufficient bush camping) & they are beside the Mann River.
If you have a copy of Camps Australia Wide, it is shown as no.234 in the Grafton to Walgett section.
Regards.
Vince

Jo... did you go to the Standing Stones at Glenn Innes???

Thanks Vince, I am yet to get around to buying myself that, sick of the weekends of lets go camping.. where? and you end up at your usual spots.

Yeh we did Brian, on the sunday morn on our way to Mann River we stopped at the street market in Glenn Innes, went to camp, and stopped at the standing stones when we left on monday arvo. we got there around 5pm as the sun was setting, got some photos on my phone, transfered them to the computer but for some reason all the photos are a shade or two darker than what they are on my phone, so those photos plus others I took off an aold corrogated shack in the middle of a paddock at Kings Plains look good on my phone but not so good on the computer. Bugga! I'm going to send an email out to a few with pics I took so I'll add you on. (You would have gotten them anyway!) And of course Mark made me pretend to try and get the dodgy looking excalibur sword out of the stone for a photo!!!
Will do that email now.
Cheers
Jo

Jo
Thanks for the email, I enjoyed your pics! I agree with you, it's a beautiful area down there with so much to see! And don't worry about the "dodgy looking excalibur sword out of the stone" pic..... we've got them as well!!! LOL...... When you go down next time, have a look at the camp area behind the old town of Dalmorton. It's quite nice thee.

Cheers

Brian