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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Paul (SA) on August 30, 2011, 08:05:45 PM
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Was it someone taking a new 4WD through Gunshot?
A hitchhiker on the Anne Beadell?
I am about to set out travelling and camper trailer-ing with the family and want to know what I am in for!!! :laugh:
Paul (SA)
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Speewa!
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I am about to set out travelling and camper trailer-ing with the family and want to know what I am in for!!! :laugh:
"what I am in for" A great time. ;D
You'll see plenty, some will take your breath away & others sights will leave you gob smacked & scratching your head.
The strangest thing was a young couple in their late twenties, Driving BMW AWD, towing a Eagle outback, all shiny and new, He was dressed with the long white Cargo shorts, cap on sideways and muscle shirt, she was dressed in a body hugging see through dress and all the bling she could carry standing there in high heels watching her husband fight with the camper as she sucked on a smoke and a can of Bourbon, telling him how it all went together, talking on her mobile phone, telling her friend what a wonderful thing this camping thing is. ???
While camped next to them, there was an elderly couple(maybe in their eighties) sitting in front of their dome tent on a rug, munching on their dinner, with their VB Commodore Vacationer parked next to them. The young couple begin to fight over whether or not they were going to the Bowling club or Golf club for dinner.
I'll never forget that.
Hope ya have a ball.
Safe travels.
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Talking to a guy at a rest stop on the highway on the up to Coober Pedy last year, he had done the same trip we were just starting (Oodndatta Track and Flinders Ranges) but in reverse to how we were doing it.
Anyway he was all grumbles and whining and told us to turn around and head home because this trip your doing is boring, the scenery is all the same and he would never be venturing into the outback ever again.
Totally amazed by this blokes lack of respect and appreciation for our country and its stunning scenery we laughed and headed off for the best holiday we have ever had as a family :cup:
I do feel sorry for that bloke who will never appreciate the outback ???
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Once saw a bloke spend almost 8 hours setting up a caravan at Broomes Head...he had everything including a separate cooking area with a 4 burner BBq, air con unit, fans, 2 deep freezers to hold ice, flooring for the annex, a tarp that streached over everything [lifed off the van & annex with 4" poly pipe], all held down with over 100 ropes & pegs! The pegs were 18' long & made of 7/8" steel - nothing was going anywhere!
Hem
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setting up a caravan at Broomes Head...
Speaking of Brooms head.
This was last New Years at Brooms head, when it was blowing like you wouldn't believe.
(http://www.hairfysh.com/images/campingtrips/BroomsHead/012011/Brooms%20Head%2001.jpg)
This van was right on the beach front, next to The Snack Shack.
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We were quietly minding our own business watching the river go by when 2 caravans turned up (we were in a van park). One of the blokes apparently ??? knew how to reverse a caravan while the other 3 in his party were having a good old chinwag), so he starts and as I was about to yell STOP, yup you guessed it BANG he backed into a tree ;D.
Result, small dent in his friend's Caravan and a bigger dent in his pride ... oops.
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Well, mine is not that crazy nor stupid.......... but strange none the less.
We got to our camping spot on a Friday afternoon and saw this small caravan. At first we thought it was empty, but then saw the curtains move ever so slightly.
From what the other campers tell us, it was a young newly wed couple who pitched up the day before and almost NEVER came outside. Makes you think why they had to steady the caravan in such a way.
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Whilst I was camping in north east Tassie we went out 4WDriving, When we came back the side of my camper (bed base) had lifted up and the awning blown down and almost every peg peg uprooted.... I have never latched the bed base down before during camping but I'd wished I had that day. Even the under bed access panels and matress were blown off into the tent area.
We didn't suffer any damage to the tent or trailer thank goodness.
Yes it was very WINDY!
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http://www.4wdaction.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=45476
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Speewa!
Very good..........
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This year on the Tele track we saw a scooter that had just come through Gunshot heading south....
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Speewa!
What :o, you really saw him ;D
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maybe not crazy - but certainly impressive mural...
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How about a Japanese tourist walking along the Stuart Highway with a huge pack on his back, pushing one of those kids scooters (the ones with the ~4" wheels) with a broken front wheel?
I pulled over to offer him a lift, which he refused. He took some water from me and told me that his original plan was to travel around Aus on a motorcycle. His bike broke down and he didn't have enough money to fix it so he sold it off and purchased said kids scooter and kept going. That was near Cairns.
He'd ridden that bloody tiny scooter, with that big pack on his back, from Cairns to Alice, out to the rock and was heading to Darwin when the wheel broke (wonder why?).
Even after losing his bike and then his scooter he still kept on going, on foot!
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Dunedin, NZ:
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Plankers. ;D
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Not weird, just stupid maybe,
Up at 5 Rocks we were camping on the beach and had packed up and were heading home along a one way sand track and came accross a japanese (we think) couple in a hired XTrail trying to get the beach (which is a fair drive accross deep sand tracks and up a dune named "big sandy" for a reason), anyways they were stuck not even 1km from the start of the sand bit with the wheels spinning due to "traction control" with no one in the car and about 5 cars backed up behind them. It was a funny sight - Xtrail thowing up sand rooster tails from the from wheels alternating trying to get traction with no one in the car.
No one behind them thought to help them off the track, so when we came down the hill, we couldnt get around so the boys asked the driver if he knew how to 4wd, and the driving who couldnt speak english just got out and motioned for my other half to get in the driver seat to get the car out. A couple of tugs on the snatch and they were free, but due to the sand rutts my other half ended up asking the backed up cars to get off the track so they could reverse the X Trail all the way back to where they could turn it around. We had one of our cars in front and the other behind with the xtrail reversing the whole way in between.
On another trip to the same beach a year later our best mate picked up a hitch hiker trying to get to the beach (this lady was smart and knew her car couldn't make it) but she didnt realise it was around 10km at least up lots of huge dunes just to get the beach ( let alone the good bit).
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I am about to set out travelling and camper trailer-ing with the family and want to know what I am in for!!! :laugh:
One thing you probably won't see (from when we were living in Montreal - IIRC this was the night before it took me 45 minutes to dig the car out so that I could get to work):
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Once saw a bloke spend almost 8 hours setting up a caravan at Broomes Head...he had everything including a separate cooking area with a 4 burner BBq, air con unit, fans, 2 deep freezers to hold ice, flooring for the annex, a tarp that streached over everything [lifed off the van & annex with 4" poly pipe], all held down with over 100 ropes & pegs! The pegs were 18' long & made of 7/8" steel - nothing was going anywhere!
Hem
Probably one of you Maclean mates that have a 6 week xmas holiday there 15km from home. One of my school mates family used to do the same thing every year, his old man would set up the caravan palace for the family on the first weekend then the poor bast@rd went to work from there mon to fri for 6 weeks while the wife and kids lived in Brooms, They took fridge and freezers from home, no aircon back then but it was a solid day set up then solid day pack up. Probably the same family doing the same thing 25 years on!
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A teepee up on the Bluff in high country. bout 30ft high... was waiting for the apache to come screaming out of the bushes... :(
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A teepee up on the Bluff in high country. bout 30ft high... was waiting for the apache to come screaming out of the bushes...
FYI:
Used to be used by Bluff & Beyond for their Ski Touring Commercial Tours during Winter (Late 80's and 90's).
Was very cosy !!.
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Seen this dunny while going for a drive the other day a good idea u never know when nature will call lol
:cheers: sheeds
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This was at Perisher, WTF.......
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o145/Teabag_album/Perisher%20June%2007/P6170019.jpg)
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saw this strange lookin' thing floating down the rapids at the Nymboida canoe centre........the kids were scared too :cup:
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Saw this old bloke heading down the Silver City Hwy back in July.......someone i spoke to later on saw him near Birdsville a month before :o
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This was at Perisher, WTF.......
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o145/Teabag_album/Perisher%20June%2007/P6170019.jpg)
Backpackers lost on their way to Fraser???
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saw this strange lookin' thing floating down the rapids at the Nymboida canoe centre
No Stranger than this fella at St George a couple of years ago.
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The Bloke hanging on to his Stubbie.
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No Stranger than this fella at St George a couple of years ago.
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The Bloke hanging on to his Stubbie.
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thats Fyshe with her auto trans fluid ya talking about there big fella 8)
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thats Fyshe with her auto trans fluid ya talking about there big fella 8)
Nup, I'm talking about Harry High Pants, Mark.
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ok then...wanna explain this to the rest of us :-*
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Can't be any worse than driving a Navara
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http://www.4wdaction.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=45476
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You bugger, that topic kept me up until 2am last night (couldn't stop reading), and then I had to try to get to sleep!!!
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Saw a bloke at a CVP in Iluka once, had a small CT, annexe was roof + 1 wall. There was a stack of milk crates outside the window in the end wall & sitting on top was a window type A/C unit going flat out into an open awning. Looked very funny, dunno what good he thought it was doing. :cheers:
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Bullfrog i think this is his brother.
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Saw this old bloke heading down the Silver City Hwy back in July.......someone i spoke to later on saw him near Birdsville a month before :o
(http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu135/bws50/DSC_0332.jpg)
If not him, then someone with the same set up was travelling in the Pilbara WA about 2 years ago. I saw him there. He had a slightly different "car" but it had no engine and was being towed by camels. He pulled up at the Fortescue Roadhouse for a rest. Created quite a bit of interest. He had been travelling in either the road reserve parallel to the highway or even on the highway in between road trains...
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Haha, could be dno. It was funny seeing this poor little aircon working its ring out blowing into an open canvas annexe. :cheers:
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Followed an erratic driver into town one morning.
Pulled up next to the car at the lights and looked over.
The female was driving erratically because she was breast feeding her baby whilst driving.
Not a very smart thing to do in my opinion...
Bill and Morag
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Well it was about 8.30pm on the Hume Hwy, we were coming home from a weekend away when I noticed a car coming along side of us, I though the interior light was on in the car, but no, the young lady driving was reading a book and it was the iddy biddy book light attached to the book I could see, this was at 110kph ???
Baz.
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A Jap riding a pushbike in middle of nowhere - like the Barkly Hwy!!
Happily riding along with an umbrella, 2 tiny saddle bags, and a dog just about expired beside them..
This was mid 80's and I dont think they had any idea the distance from Isa to the Homestead!!!
But we saw several of them over the trip from Lightning Ridge thru to Darwin all alone and without any supplies.
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Hi Lost
we were at wilpena pound early august a jap came on a push bike with a little trailer & a big flag , the wife said get one of them but a bit hard gettin up hills with no motor lol
:cheers: sheeds
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Not crazy, but very funny...
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/300/day710043.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/121/day710043.jpg/)
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I did see through the dark & the foul language trying to set up in the dark . This Bloke turned up at a catch up in the dark with his kids . The kids didnt get out of the rig as it was dark , leaving Dear Old Dad to set up . After not reading the instructions to set up the Cooper as its childs play , but they were still in the rig it took some time . After a long chuckel some of the more careing Swaggers helped set him up . Parking on the top of a Bull Ant nest might not have been a good idea , But who can say ( PM if you want to know who it was ) :cheers:
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I did see through the dark & the foul language trying to set up in the dark . This Bloke turned up at a catch up in the dark with his kids . The kids didnt get out of the rig as it was dark , leaving Dear Old Dad to set up . After not reading the instructions to set up the Cooper as its childs play , but they were still in the rig it took some time . After a long chuckel some of the more careing Swaggers helped set him up . Parking on the top of a Bull Ant nest might not have been a good idea , But who can say ( PM if you want to know who it was ) :cheers:
And the kids still haven't learned to help but at least I'm quicker in setting up. Just to clarify my original statement, Speewa you are still the strangest thing I have ever seen whilst camping and that includes 20 years+ in the military!!!!!!
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Hope it wasn't a member here, sure it wouldn't be as there was a sand flag from another online forum flying at half mast.
Watched a Kimberley Camper pull up beside our pop top at Birdsville Caravan Park and proceed to set up. I said, "Hope you don't me watching you set up camp but I was tossing up between something like yours and this pop top". He said, "Oh we can go to a lot of places you can't get to". "Did you come over the Simpson?" I asked. "No", was the reply.
I forgot which way he had come, but it couldn't have been any worse than the roads we did to Innamincka. I lost interest and and later I looked out and it appeared he had unhitched without putting his Jockey Wheel down as he was out with a bottle jack......
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A little long but worth a bit of a laugh as well cos there must have been a few who have done a similar thing, i did start an exciting trend but it was very short lived as the penalties were very cruel please read on...
Craziest thing i saw was when i returned to "the Site where it happened".... I was driving an Army truck many, many yrs ago and got bored on a long haul from Bissy to Rocky and beyond. We were in a long drawn out formation mixed with landrovers trucks of all sizes and descriptions ( mine was a MK 5 International ...machinery vehicle, Lathe, 5kva VW Generator and every tool a young eager fitter would want except for a radio they didn't want to spoil us).
Very long story shortened a tad.... 5k's or so from Rocky on a boring, roadkill riddled wide section of road i decided to see how close i could get to a piece of sunbaked 45 degree skippy....
"recovery Veh 3 to fitter 2 that was close, over"
Ahhaaa someones whatchin ... picked another target... "recovery Veh 3 to Fitter 2 your right on the nose, over".... no need to tell you how close that was...
Then i spotted this big red who looked like he belonged in the Nullabor hunting ground ..trouble with this one it was on a sweeping huge bend and off the road about 1.5 mtrs it was big enough area to park 20 semi's with their trailers and the road was clear for miles, so i lined it up and moved off the road, to my left easily 20 mtrs plus or minus, there were stacks of sign posts advertising Rockhamptons tourist and camping facilities but i was too focussed on the size of the target shall we say and thought here we go "WOOMPA" Holy S&*%t ...by the time i got control of the 6 Ton dust canvas covered rattler i was on the opposite side of the road... a couple of cars flashed their lights and i cringed down as low as i could until they had passed.
About 150 mtrs up the road i saw two of the Platoons landrovers pulled over and i sheepishly drove by wide eyed and sweating like a plumber on a roof.... just got passed them then the radio broke it’s silence “ recore ha ha ha yy veh hahahacle 3 to hhaaaa to whiteyyharrrr fitter hhaha2222” Shit...
To this day i have no idea what they said i just pulled over and waited till i got another call and that wasn’t very long at all.
The call was fairly subdued but it still made me shiver with fear ”Fitter 2 .....turn your vehicle around and return to location signpost roadside stop , OVER”
A broken radio message again followed and requested the following Recovery vehicles that were tailing me to go on ahead and wait at check point “Rocky Show grounds” our stop over point for the night “proceed past all the other vehicles and wait at the toilet block area UNLOADED, over ”.
AGAIN to cut the story short i pulled up along side the Platoon Sgt and the three corporals one i’m sure had a wet patch in his crutch area and he and his offsider were peeking around the back of their vehicle to check who i was, they started pissing themselves laughing again when i stepped down off the truck.
He didn’t say a word just put his massive big hairy hand on the top of my head and gently gripped me like a gorilla turning me ever so slowly around until i faced the Rockhampton Show Sign that was advertising the next weeks coming attraction.... IT WAS the other pricks comments that really got him pissed off ... something about “ why aren’t they advertising Gut busting side shows or Rib tickling events... then i really looked at the Sign smack bottom centre was the trailings and bowel remains of Big Red embedded about 50mm into and across the showgrounds major sponsor ...I forget the name but it was the local Abbitoir or butcher and .. then... i think i got a wet patch myself... the punishment i received was funnier than what i did but thats another road travel story.
And skippy he was about 3 days dead and puffed up like a buffalo before “i tried to swerve and miss him Officer” , the tyre marks tracked him under the front arms at the start of the rib cage and the smell......... we had to leave....... quick
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This was out around Aberfeldy while we were taking students through driver training on weekend, he was doing road testing to ensure they get 1000klms out of a tank of fuel....
37in tyres standard.. all the kiddies will cream their pants.
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Spotted this in Gloucester when on the Drifta road trip.
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French tourist in Karajini
Had been emergency RFDS flight out the week before for a snake bite
Hitched back in
Tent was a 15 dollar K Mart Job and awning was a Bunnings umbrella.
Was staying there for 2 months with 10 packs of 2 minute noodles and 2 liters of water
Would go around the campsites begging for food or water and insinuated that if we let her stay in out camper trailer she would make it worth the while to bot me AND my wife who was standing beside me when the offer was made
No before you all go you lucky bastard visualise a middle aged french woman who has not had a shower or shave for 4 weeks
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Years back taking a photo / break at the NT / QLD border just on sunset.. Just after sundown as a Road train came towards us, We could just make out something waving and flapping about on top of the front trailer in the semi dark ..
As it went past there was this black fella wearing only jeans, with wild eyes and hair, arms waving madly, yelling G,Dayyyyy.. standing on the top rails of a double deck road train cattle carrier ...
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This year on the Tele track we saw a scooter that had just come through Gunshot heading south....
lol we saw exactly that a few years ago..
Then there was the guy fishing in Seisha.. Had walked out about knee deep. About 50 metres.
A couple of large crocs were less than a stones throw from him.
People yelling.. Owner/ manager came running/yelling..
He ignored all... Telling us we were wrong.. I even have video footage of him and the crocs..
When he came in.. He said.. Can't be Crocs there.. No crocs when salmon are about..
Umm he had no fish..
To this day I can't believe he lived.
Those crocs sat about 5 metres from him swimming in a semi circle.
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lol we saw exactly that a few years ago..
Then there was the guy fishing in Seisha.. Had walked out about knee deep. About 50 metres.
A couple of large crocs were less than a stones throw from him.
People yelling.. Owner/ manager came running/yelling..
He ignored all... Telling us we were wrong.. I even have video footage of him and the crocs..
When he came in.. He said.. Can't be Crocs there.. No crocs when salmon are about..
Umm he had no fish..
To this day I can't believe he lived.
Those crocs sat about 5 metres from him swimming in a semi circle.
Even duct tape can't fix stupid...Just saying
Cheers Tracker.
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Not crazy really. Just a bit different.
A top pommy bloke named Rupert at Home Valley on the Gibb.
He waited for someone (me) to come along before he tried the Pentecost crossing.
Yep, you sure do need a big, bad 4bee to do the GBR, hey?
Steve
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lol we saw exactly that a few years ago..
Then there was the guy fishing in Seisha.. Had walked out about knee deep. About 50 metres.
A couple of large crocs were less than a stones throw from him.
People yelling.. Owner/ manager came running/yelling..
He ignored all... Telling us we were wrong.. I even have video footage of him and the crocs..
When he came in.. He said.. Can't be Crocs there.. No crocs when salmon are about..
Umm he had no fish..
To this day I can't believe he lived.
Those crocs sat about 5 metres from him swimming in a semi circle.
Not camping as such, but on Stockton Beach a few years ago we saw a couple of guys spinning lures for salmon. A fairly common occurrence, except these guys were chest deep in the water, and one guy was having trouble keeping his shorts up by the looks of how he was fidgeting with them. It wasn't till he walked back onto the beach a while later that we saw why he was having problems, he had a nice big fat salmon still wriggling and bleeding tied to his drawstring. One of the species that generally follow the big schools of salmon on Stockton beach is great white sharks. We got him on film too..
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In the Mujimba Caravan Park on the Sunshine Coast in June last year. A couple had their caged galah with them - wouldn't call it a pet.
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This was out around Aberfeldy while we were taking students through driver training on weekend, he was doing road testing to ensure they get 1000klms out of a tank of fuel....
37in tyres standard.. all the kiddies will cream their pants.
(http://www.birdmansworld.com/myswag/iveco.jpg)
I actually inquired about these the other day at the local dealer. As I go there often for work. And I reckon they would make an awesome tourer. I think it's something like 16 gears. 37" tyres. And front and rear diff locks as standard. And only 80 ish grand. Compare that to a new cruiser ute I would probably work out cheaper. Also they have a higher gym and larger tray for a more spacious living quarter.
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BMA Saraji coal mine have one for the Drill Fitters "Ute". They say its a weapon.
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My aunt and uncle used to hold a 3 day equestrian event on their farm for the local district. They'd set up a campground in one of the paddocks and people would come from miles around. To cope with ablutions they'd dig a series of long drops, and place half a 44gallon drum over the hole, with a toilet seat bolted on top, surrounded by a thatched wall. A makeshift bar was also set up on the verandah of the house.
As you can imagine the local farmers got into the grog quite heavily throughout the day and at night. One such night a woman came running in screaming to the bar, about the giant snake that had made itself comfortable inside one of these dunnies, presumably keeping warm. One of the brave (and quite pissed) men ran to his car and got a 12guage shotgun. Carefully he aimed inside the dunnie and shot the snake. Of course, shotguns firing into enclosed spaces full of methane cause explosions, and old mate ended up covered in the contents of the dunnie much to the amusement of everyone else. I think his wife made him sleep outside.
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Spent Boxing Day and a few more at Tom Groggin with a bunch of other swaggers a few years ago. We drove up
Mt Pinnabar, thumping our chests and enjoying the magnificence you ca only experience with a 4WD. Decided we'd loop home and so trekked seemingly most of the way back to Melbourne and then finally towards Tom Groggin.
Up hill and down dale, until over the radio comes the call from Silvo "guys, you won't believe this but the track is blocked." Blocked? By what we ask? "There's a bloke in his brand new Honda Accord stuck in a ditch, I'm just about to pull him out." Wait we cry, we have to see this. Sure enough, there is a Honda Accord bellied out and a few tooth challenged 4WDs watching him get more stuck.
We linked a few cars and winched him back and sent him on his way - he was taking his fathers(?) ashes to Tom Groggin station and had followed his GPS from Melbourne...
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A huge Wedge Tailed Eagle swooping us head on whilst travelling on the highway 20kms north of Hawker, Flinders. Its wing spread was wider than the 80 series. Once in a lifetime moment.
Wish I had dash came at the time.
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Watched as new 3 campers arrived at the camp ground . Drive around 3 times to find a spot then cramped in on a bloke they didn't know cause they liked his spot under a tree . They then started to unfold a hard floor after handing out the gardening gloves to save them from dirty hands . We set up our chairs in a row to watch them fumble & unfold as we had :cheers:
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Watched as new 3 campers arrived at the camp ground . Drive around 3 times to find a spot then cramped in on a bloke they didn't know cause they liked his spot under a tree .
Why do ****s to that...??? 3 acres of land to camp on, and they have to camp on top of you/someone ??? I ****in hate humans.
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"There's a bloke in his brand new Honda Accord stuck in a ditch, I'm just about to pull him out."
Think all Swaggers in SEQ would know Duck Creek Rd between O'Reilly's & the Kerry Valley? For those that don't it's well & truly a 4wd track - more fun than anything super serious but still 4wd.
Last year, we'd gone most of the way down then back up to O'R's (Mrs' family "owns" one of the spots not far from the bottom of the road & we check it out / tidy it every once in a while). Back up top but still a k or so short of Luke's Farm, come round a bend & here's a bloke sitting stopped broadside across the road in the middle of a fairly deep puddle (had rained a few days earlier) in a hire Nissan Pulsar! :o
He finished doing about a 15-point u-turn, slipping & sliding all over the place, then stopped half-off the side of the track, & waved us through. Asked if he was OK as we passed & he said, "Yep, we're fine thanks" in a strong American accent - "we're" but he's in the car by himself ???
Another few hundred metre's along & here's a lady NOT dressed for bushwalking ::), walking up the middle of the road heading back to the top of the track. Pulled up again & asked if she's OK - "Yes, thanks" through gritted teeth, once again with US accent & looking furious >:D
Can only assume that they're touring, have visited O'R's, next stop is Beauie or similar & the GPS says that there's a nice road between here & there, that'll be a lot shorter than going all the way back to Canungra ... :-[ :'(
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Camping in Tanzania we woke up to a herd of elephants around our tents and my mate woke to find an Egyptian Cobra staring him in the face, luckily there was mozzy netting between .
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Camping in Tanzania we woke up to a herd of elephants around our tents and my mate woke to find an Egyptian Cobra staring him in the face, luckily there was mozzy netting between .
First read that and I thought it was Tasmania!
I thought what good mushrooms you must get down there!
Cheers Glen
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Spent Boxing Day and a few more at Tom Groggin with a bunch of other swaggers a few years ago. We drove up
Mt Pinnabar, thumping our chests and enjoying the magnificence you ca only experience with a 4WD. Decided we'd loop home and so trekked seemingly most of the way back to Melbourne and then finally towards Tom Groggin.
Up hill and down dale, until over the radio comes the call from Silvo "guys, you won't believe this but the track is blocked." Blocked? By what we ask? "There's a bloke in his brand new Honda Accord stuck in a ditch, I'm just about to pull him out." Wait we cry, we have to see this. Sure enough, there is a Honda Accord bellied out and a few tooth challenged 4WDs watching him get more stuck.
We linked a few cars and winched him back and sent him on his way - he was taking his fathers(?) ashes to Tom Groggin station and had followed his GPS from Melbourne...
Said Honda
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One of the kids tried pushing first!
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We were camped at the one of the caravan parks in Rockhampton on our way home from the cape.
I watched this old couple in their land cruiser and 25,000ft caravan (this thing was huge) pull out of their site. He had forgotten to unplug the power lead. She stood their and watched the lead get longer and longer, didn't say a word, until it was eventually so tight that instead of coming out of the van, the lead ripped the power pole out of the ground. The old lady then got stuck into her husband for being so careless, very funny to watch, poor bloke getting a hard time for something she could have easily prevented. I wondered over offered the use of a longer lead. When the woman asked why would we need a longer lead, I politely explained that a longer lead would in future give her more time to warn her husband. Needless to say I was then on the receiving end of the abuse, but at it least gave the husband a break and a laugh.
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Camping in Tanzania we woke up to a herd of elephants around our tents and my mate woke to find an Egyptian Cobra staring him in the face, luckily there was mozzy netting between .
Spent many years staying in the Kafue and Luangwa National Parks in Zambia. We used to leave left over Kebab's around the campers tents whenever they were about. Tourists in Tents generally don't like Hyena's sniffing around their tents in the middle of the night. >:D
Also as an 8 year old having to hide in our hut at Lufupa Camp whilst a herd of elephants ate the thatch off the roof (it was during a drought). Our parents were stuck in the bar area watching it all unfold unable to do anything. Same trip a Hyena broke into the kitchen and ate all the peanut butter.
Not my photo, but its the bar area at Lufupa - looks like they've replaced the thatched roofs :)
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I saw this bone head at Cape York in 1995... (see pic attached)
on an earlier trip, I camped near a creek bed in western QLD. No tent, just swagged out. Woke up an hour after sunset with an entire heard of cows around me...
but my fave' was in 1992.
I was riding across the Barkley (just east of the homestead) on the mountainbike, and saw in the distance, what looked like two cows laying on top of each other.
Turned out to be a cow that had been hit a day or so earlier and well... the innards had expanded somewhat. I'm about 200meters down the road and so I crossed onto the other side of the rode to be well clear. (just in case... you know it decided to go... *bang*)
then a couple of Japanese moto tourists on a massive Dakar style bike zoom past me and pull up beside it. Taking pics and then... to my horror...
POKING IT WITH A STICK!
I never pedalled so bloody fast in my life. Got past and then camped at Barkley homestead.
oh yeh... and cycle touring, you see the things that people throw out the window. It was 92' and so the Sony Walkman was still king. I picked up countless cassettes in outback QLD, NT and the Kimberly. Most were crap (Wham?) but I did get a genuine copy of Alchemy Live.
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Spent many years staying in the Kafue and Luangwa National Parks in Zambia. We used to leave left over Kebab's around the campers tents whenever they were about. Tourists in Tents generally don't like Hyena's sniffing around their tents in the middle of the night. >:D
A mate and I were camping in Yosemite National Park in the US and baited the safari tent of this annoying woman with a pizza. We sat around drinking a bottle of OP Bundy we had carried to give to a buddy and waited for the bears, but disappointingly and contrary to all the warning signs posted everywhere we didn't see any Grizzly action.
#goodtimes
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I never pedalled so bloody fast in my life. Got past and then camped at Barkley homestead.
I was shocked how many tourists I saw on treadlys doing the trip from Isa to the homestead.. None ever seemed to have much stuff with them like water. although some did have umbrella's up while riding..
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I actually inquired about these the other day at the local dealer. As I go there often for work. And I reckon they would make an awesome tourer. I think it's something like 16 gears. 37" tyres. And front and rear diff locks as standard. And only 80 ish grand. Compare that to a new cruiser ute I would probably work out cheaper. Also they have a higher gym and larger tray for a more spacious living quarter.
They do look the goods but if you ask anyone that owns one they had to spend a small fortune sorting out issues , things like inadequate brakes .
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I was shocked how many tourists I saw on treadlys doing the trip from Isa to the homestead.. None ever seemed to have much stuff with them like water. although some did have umbrella's up while riding..
hahahahahaha... can't work out how on earth you'd work an umbrella. I had 4 days of headwinds from the border to the homestead my ride. then a a roaring tailwind from the homestead to Three Ways. (done in just over half a day)
I'm a bad example of the "average" cycle tourist though. I carry a serious reserve of water at all times. I always had a spare 4L in the back pockets of the rear bags and then a further 4L emergency spare in the bottom of the front bags.
2L milk bottles for them all. Soft, flexible and reasonably long lasting.
Oh and never wore a helmet once. May not have had a bell either...
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hahahahahaha... can't work out how on earth you'd work an umbrella. I had 4 days of headwinds from the border to the homestead my ride. then a a roaring tailwind from the homestead to Three Ways. (done in just over half a day)
I'm a bad example of the "average" cycle tourist though. I carry a serious reserve of water at all times. I always had a spare 4L in the back pockets of the rear bags and then a further 4L emergency spare in the bottom of the front bags.
2L milk bottles for them all. Soft, flexible and reasonably long lasting.
Oh and never wore a helmet once. May not have had a bell either...
I spoke to a Ghan driver who said he saw a cyclist riding along the Ghan Rail line. Wasn't you was it?
I was shocked how many tourists I saw on treadlys doing the trip from Isa to the homestead.. None ever seemed to have much stuff with them like water. although some did have umbrella's up while riding..
Saw a man pedalling around there with a grim look on his face, then about 800m later passed a woman on the same type of bike with the same gear and a grim look on her face. We figured they were a couple in the middle of an argument. ;D
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hahahahahaha... can't work out how on earth you'd work an umbrella.
it was like a beach umbrella with long wooden pole.. One old Asian dude (possibly 800yrs old) had it mounted on his bike near seat pole - but it was like a parachute!
Oh and never wore a helmet once. May not have had a bell either...
Not possible.. you'd die.. the Gov tells me this daily.
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I spoke to a Ghan driver who said he saw a cyclist riding along the Ghan Rail line. Wasn't you was it?
nope. my first big lap was in 92'-93' (18 months all up)
2nd big trip was 95'.
1st trip I stayed "mainly" on the main roads. Except for the Gibb. To this day... I still regret not turning north from Mt Isa into the Gulf.
2nd trip was constrained by time off work. On 4 weeks to do Cairns to the tip... so no side trips.
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Think all Swaggers in SEQ would know Duck Creek Rd between O'Reilly's & the Kerry Valley? For those that don't it's well & truly a 4wd track - more fun than anything super serious but still 4wd.
Last year, we'd gone most of the way down then back up to O'R's (Mrs' family "owns" one of the spots not far from the bottom of the road & we check it out / tidy it every once in a while). Back up top but still a k or so short of Luke's Farm, come round a bend & here's a bloke sitting stopped broadside across the road in the middle of a fairly deep puddle (had rained a few days earlier) in a hire Nissan Pulsar! :o
He finished doing about a 15-point u-turn, slipping & sliding all over the place, then stopped half-off the side of the track, & waved us through. Asked if he was OK as we passed & he said, "Yep, we're fine thanks" in a strong American accent - "we're" but he's in the car by himself ???
Another few hundred metre's along & here's a lady NOT dressed for bushwalking ::), walking up the middle of the road heading back to the top of the track. Pulled up again & asked if she's OK - "Yes, thanks" through gritted teeth, once again with US accent & looking furious >:D
Can only assume that they're touring, have visited O'R's, next stop is Beauie or similar & the GPS says that there's a nice road between here & there, that'll be a lot shorter than going all the way back to Canungra ... :-[ :'(
Camped at Darlington park a few weekends back and drove Duck Ck Rd. It's a little more "rutty" than other times we've driven it atm and a few k's from the end of our return trip (having already passed an overheating Mitsy AWD) we passed a sporty little hatch (Honda or Hyundai or something). I radioed to my mate further back and he flagged him down to let him know the conditions. Smartly, but not entertainingly, he turned around and headed for home. Kinda wished he'd continued so we could turn around and watch...
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I was in Wiepa and saw a ute coming up the road with a tinny on the back.
So what you say.
Sideways.
Their trailer broke, so they stuck the 4.2m tinny on the back of the ute sideways and drove the last 200km into town... Unfortunately they attracted the attention of the police as they drove past the airport and it was suggested that they go and borrow a trailer before going through town.
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we passed a sporty little hatch (Honda or Hyundai or something).
Yeah, but it'll be 4wd so that's fine..... ;D
Isn't it? >:D
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My parents came across a Japanese tourist who'd run out of water cycling across the Nullarbor. They filled his '1L' water bottle for him.
The funniest thing I've seen was a poor woman's naked bum. We were winding our way through El Questro Gorge, and me being a straggler was well behind everyone else. The rest of our group had made it to the half way swimming hole, so the middle aged couple that were already there decided to leave. The wife stripped naked to change out of her wet gear as her loving husband held up the towel to protect her modesty from the group, but they seemed to have forgotten the gorge behind them, so everyone walking into the narrow gorge got a surprising show as she bent over to put fresh underwear on :o :-X
We didn't let on that we'd seen, and they travelled on none the wiser ;D
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2 years in a row on the Beachport to Robe leg, we saw some old bloke about 80 runnin down the beach in the bollox... I nearly drove into the ocean to cleanse my eyes.
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Bird
That would be the Nora Creinna nudest camp.
Regards
Angus.