Recent content by diesel99

G'day David, Good bit of info there - I remember hearing a few years ago of backpackers relocating rental vehicles from one place to another, but was not aware of the website you mention. Some of the "big rig" trucks on our roads are not the thing you would come across on UK or other...

G'day Gafferbill, From your description, your setup is practically identical to most rigs here except for the manual switching of the tugs starting battery. Very few vehicles here would have manual switching and most owners elect to go with a solenoid arrangement that will not allow the...

G'day Gafferbill, In answer to your question re the heavy duty wiring connection, the connector itself is called an Anderson plug and generally those fitted to most vehicles and vans are 50amp capacity. They are for transferring 12 volt power from the vehicle to the on-board battery/batteries...

G'day there Gafferbill, We have met quite a few UK tourists seeing Oz the way you are doing it - the west on one trip and then come back again to have a look at the east. We have also met a lot who only have the one opportunity to come here and they attempt to see the whole country in 6 weeks...

There are a lot of "gung ho" people that let their ambitions exceed their capabilities and they also overestimate the limitations of tow vehicles and caravans. A breakdown on the GCR or any of the even more remote tracks in that area will result in a very, very costly recovery - 2 years ago the...

G'day All, During our many years of travelling here in Australia we have met and formed close friendships with quite a few international visitors and I have often made the comment that you lot, especially tourists from the UK and also Germany see more of our vast country in a short time than...

G'day Robert, The van has an 85 litre onboard water tank and 2 - 20 litre plastic jerry cans in holders on the front. Depending on where we are travelling to and the availability of water, we carry anywhere up to another 180 litres in containers stowed in the tow vehicle. Hence the need for a...

G'day Robert, Thanks for the offer of the snow mate, but no thanks. I had been led to believe that you Scots never gave anything away . Here's a couple of pics of the interior of our van - being a functional off-road van it lacks some of the creature comforts of the larger highway style...

G'day Joe, I've tried roo meat a few times, but never aquired a taste for it - I would much prefer wallaby or wombat, they are not as "gamey" as roo meat. I am rather partial to camel meat though, but it is rarely sold in our supermarkets if ever, yet we have a thriving camel export industry...

I think there will be a lot of happy people here in Australia now that we lost the bid also. The Sydney Olympics in 2000 has a been a sore point with a lot of us - we are still paying for it 10 years on and will do for many years to come. We are a nation that love sport of any kind, but...

No worries Sue - it happens all the time on our forums in Oz as well. I would be one of the worst offenders, but I figured I should behave myself here - don't want to get a bad name for us colonials. cheers diesel

Not sure if this will work, but I'll see if I can post an image of our rig. diesel

Thanks for the welcome Thursdays Child and Collin. We've got quite a few creepy crawlies here in Oz - not too far north of us is saltie (crocodile) country and it is not uncommon to see some pretty nasty venomous snakes around our place, but you get so used to them that you rarely give them a...

Not here in central Queensland - 6.23 am, current temperature is 18 degrees C and forecast is for a max of 30 with possible late tropical thunderstorm. cheers diesel

G'day 602, We certainly have some long treks between waterholes over here. A couple of years back we towed our van from Western Australia through to the Northern Territory on what is called The Great Central Road - approximately 1100 kms of some of the most bone jarring corrugated dirt road...