Wow nice looking Van Dave enjoy mate !
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Dave's Office
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You can move the bar that holds the spare in and out Mackka and I would like to slide it in about 12 inches but there are hoses in the way so you could only move it about 4 inches.
Another great feature Dave, love it.
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I'm going to have an early night. Tomorrow morning at 6:30am I pick up Gary the Pom from the bus depot in Perth. He's been here for a year travelling throughout the country and turned up home last Friday. We left him there because we had a prior appointment in Perth. His vehicle is parked in my back yard ready for his next visit whenever that might be.
I'd be interested to find out how his epic trans-Australia tour went, adventures/misadventures, highlights, etc.
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Gary the Pom, what a great name, This is what Australia lacks these days, Aussie humour and banter, I feel I’m speaking another language in the country I was born these days.
Hippy ya just living in the wrong part or not mixing with the right people. Once in a while i pop into the Mens Shed next to my church and we have a rip roaring old chinwag about everything known to man and a good cuppa loosens the tongue. Give it a go.
Dave's Office
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I've had several people say "why don't you get a tinny and stick it on top of the ute" Grumpy, but old Dave won't be doing that, I did it when I was young, fit and strong but after this years winter trip with the Minniebago and the boat we'll be taking the caravan on some gold seeking adventures and Miss Kay has even agreed to give detecting a go which will give me a good excuse to buy a 2300 or 6000, though with the amount of gold I find a 2300 probably makes more economic sense.where's the boat dave
safe travels with the new toy mate ,enjoy the comforts
Reckon give yourself the best chance on the gold. The new caravan looks the goods to allow you some decent staying time in the goldfields so arm yourself with the best you can afford.
Have not long ago sold our 2300 and purchased a 6000. My wife is wrapt as we came home a few days ago and she found 6 bits for over a gram after a couple of misses with the 2300 on trips before that.
When I managed to wrench the 6000 from my wife’s hand I managed to clean up a few bits left behind by my 5000/8” combo.
Been playing with a new GPX 6000. Got a real good deal plus free Coiltek 14x9 and a Coiltek 10x5 at a reduced price. Happy days.
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Yes I was surprised by his reluctance to meet more forum members. There were so many opportunities as he travelled throughout the country. I think he spent time in every state, spent quite a while in Wedderburn when he lost a massive amount of money on an debit card scam and had all his account frozen. That was after he returned from the top of Cape York so he covered a lot of the country.
He visited the Department of Transport here in WA, I think he was looking into what he need to do to sell his Nissan Patrol. During the process he was informed that his vehicle was unregistered and had been since the rego ran out five months earlier. I told him to just get a 48hr permit and drive it up to me and park it until his return. He arrived in a couple of days but as it worked out he was not eligible for a permit without a WA driver's license. They told him that he couldn't drive it away, it had to be towed. In the end he drove onto a beach, I think here in WA, and bogged. He stripped everything out of the vehicle and took it to high ground expecting the tide to take the Nissan away. Fortunately another vehicle arrived and rescued him and his vehicle.
I got out at 5:30am this morning so that I could pick him up well before my first flight lesson at 9:30. He said he would be arriving at Meltham Station at 6:30 so I was ready however he sent me a text to say that he was standing outside Woolworths. Well there's no Woolworths at Meltham so I called him and eventually worked out that he was at Midland, 17km away in annoying traffic. When floosy on the iphone led me to the carpark it just happened to be at the back of the station on the other side of a chain-wire fence. After sitting at the level crossing until a train passed by I located him opposite Woolworths Midland. I spoke to my iphone "Seri take me to the international airport". Well she tried but at each intersection I got a double call, she was trying to take me back to Midland while directing me to the airport. We ended up in the back streets of Helena Valley before I worked what was going on. Eventually we arrived at the airport and I sent him on his way but I didn't have quite as much time as I wanted to have a bit of breakfast and then make it to Jandakot Airport for my flight. I don't like to arrive stressed but we managed to safely land after a few successful Touch and Goes and a couple of aborted attempts
seven and a half hours flying time this week and long way to go......I'm sure he has an awful lot of great stories but doesn't seem eager to tell. However he's a nice guy and we'll welcome him back.
Dave's Office
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Right now I'm on my way home after 3 great weeks at Windsor Station with my brother Randy, cousin Timmy and his mate Stuey from Port Macquarie, those two made a very long trip to join Randy and I to do some detecting in WA and I'm rapt that they found enough gold to make them over the moon, and thanks to my mates from Windsor who made us so welcome.
Dave's Office
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Right now I'm enjoying a VB after a 7 hour drive from home to Balranald, we're on our way to Northern New South Wales for our last winter trip with the Minniebago and the boat, next winter all being well, we'll be in the WA goldfields and I will be digging up Miss Kays gold nuggets, anyway I'm really looking forward to this trip and some great fishing, and the Mighty Murrumbidgee River doesn't look as mighty as the last time we were here.
Looks like the wood ducks are having a good breeding season!
Wood ducks often pinch ducklings from other broods, best I’ve seen was 27 ducklings.
Dave's Office
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That was last year when the river was high there are hardly any ducks here at all now.
Good luck with the fishing! I just love the river reds and muddy banks!
In 2 weeks, I'll be stopping in Balranald heading for the WA goldfields with a new 6000. Is that the low level weir you're camping at?
In 2 weeks, I'll be stopping in Balranald heading for the WA goldfields with a new 6000. Is that the low level weir you're camping at?
Dave's Office
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That was last year when the river was high there are hardly any ducks here at all now.
We camp at the Balranald Caravan Park 19.3, they've got big drive-through sites and the facilities and the staff are great, I'm going to take a tinny up there one day and spend a few weeks fishing in the river, when we were there last year a camper pulled a 12 pound cod in fishing off the bank.
hope the fish are biting well dave , for the last trip fishing the northern waters
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