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    Everlasting in the News

    In late August I placed a series of nine geocaches along the Old Mail Route between Paringa (in SA) and Lake Cullulleraine (in Vic). The cache description states the caches are dry weather only caches. Unfortunately, there have been a number of instances already where geocachers have become stuck whilst completing the series.


    Let’s Raid The Food Bowl

    Over the weekend we attended The “Let’s Raid The Food Bowl” geocaching event at Mildura.
    We had dinner at the Gateway Tavern. The above photo was taken with my iPhone as geocachers starting arriving at the dinner venue.


    June Long Weekend Caching

    The South Australian geocaching community holds its biggest event over the June Long Weekend. This year the event was held in Maitland which is about four hours drive from the Riverland. It was wet, wet, wet with a few roads becoming almost undriveable.


    12 Volt Battery Instalation

    Our Traveller caravan does not have a 12 volt battery set up.
    As we would like to stay overnight in National Parks and/or bush camp we decided to fit a 12 volt battery and have access to some 240 volt appliances (TV, Satellite TV Decoder, Laptop, Battery Chargers, etc.) that are in the caravan.


    Towsafe Training

    I’ve just completed a Towsafe Training course conducted by Tom Olthoff  who writes the Caravan World magazine Caravanning Clinic pages.


    We Have Our Caravan

    This morning we collected our caravan from Dave Benson Caravans, not without a little drama.


    Pajero NK (1997)

    Due to numerous mechanical problems with our 1999 diesel Holden Jackaroo we finally had to bite the bullet and trade it in at a significant loss.
    We looked around a few yards and finally bought a duel fuel Mitsubishi Pajero. We had the vehicle mechanically checked over and after a clean bill of health drove of [...]


    UHF & CD/Tuner Fitted into Jackaroo

    We have now installed the Uniden UHF radio and Pioneer CD/Tuner into the Jackaroo.


    Our Jackaroo XS (1994)

    Whilst we know that we could tow our caravan with our Magna, we were concerned with the strain that was being put on the Magna, when towing between 80kph and 90kph. The Magna is being driven in excess of 35,000kms per year for Gary to commute to and from work.  We therefore decided to purchase [...]


    Everlasting in the News

    In late August I placed a series of nine geocaches along the Old Mail Route between Paringa (in SA) and Lake Cullulleraine (in Vic). The cache description states the caches are dry weather only caches. Unfortunately, there have been a number of instances already where geocachers have become stuck whilst completing the series.


    Let’s Raid The Food Bowl

    Over the weekend we attended The “Let’s Raid The Food Bowl” geocaching event at Mildura.
    We had dinner at the Gateway Tavern. The above photo was taken with my iPhone as geocachers starting arriving at the dinner venue.


    June Long Weekend Caching

    The South Australian geocaching community holds its biggest event over the June Long Weekend. This year the event was held in Maitland which is about four hours drive from the Riverland. It was wet, wet, wet with a few roads becoming almost undriveable.


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