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January 2008
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Editor: Dennis Amor |
Scores of families turned up at the area - where people had camped for decades - unaware of the new ruling and were forced to return home after discovering local caravan parks were full to overflowing. Caravanners and campers who ignored the new ban faced fines of up to $1500. [More]
Thieves create discord at music festival
Hero cops rescue mower man from riverPOLICE are being hailed as heroes after rescuing a caravan park's assistant manager from under a ride-on mower which had flipped into a river. "It was very scary. He's lucky to be alive," his relieved wife told Caravanning News. [More]
Caravan speed merchants amaze police
Honour for Shelley Beach
Spreading complaints bite home at parkHARVEY Bay's largest beachfront caravan park in Queensland is to ban overnight stays at one of its most popular sites. This follows complaints that thoughtless holidaymakers using the pitch at Pialba Beachfront Caravan Park have been spreading their belongings and encroaching on a restaurant. [More]
New wave set to replace grey nomads MOVE aside you grey nomads ... there's a new breed of traveller on the way! Now a government has commissioned special research into the 'happy' and 'liberated' boomers who are hitting Australia's holiday playgrounds. [More]
Be more security conscious: police POLICE in New South Wales have urged caravanners to be more security conscious. Caravan parks in the state's south have been showered with leaflets warning holidaymakers to beware of thieves. [More]
Man jailed after world trip ended in tragedy
CARAVANNERS are now welcome to stay at the Hobart Showground in Tasmania. But the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania told Caravanning News caravans will have to be 'self-contained'. [More] Cash for outback grey nomad scheme AN OUTBACK council has received a government grant to recruit grey nomads and other travellers for community work. The $100,000 handout to Queensland's Barcaldine Shire Council comes as the skills shortage in the bush continues to worsen. [More]
Couple
buy bread as caravan burnsA COUPLE'S caravanning holiday came to a fiery end when they stopped to buy bread in a NSW town. Bob and Joy Ison were on the first day of a five-day trip when they decided to do a spot of shopping in Batemans Bay, 300km south of Sydney. [More]
New lease of life on
cards for park
Rain give cherry pickers
the pip
New ban potty: residents
Caravanners converge on
Forbes Stink over dump point location THE location of a dump point in a NSW town has angered local councillors. Now they want the sewage disposal facility, used by visiting caravanners and motorhomers, moved to a more "appropropriate" place. [More]
Uproar over Inskip Point
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Dennis Amor |
Put the brake on those pesky accelerators GREAT work! Always enjoy reading your articles. Speaking of caravanners who sit on 70kph then speed up to 100kph when there is a chance to finally overtake (Caravanning News, December edition) ... can someone please give me an explanation as to why this happens. We have been travelling for over four years and time and again, this has happened to us as well. It takes us so long to be able to finally build up the speed to overtake and when a section of overtaking lanes finally comes up, low and behold the 'slow vehicle' in front of us suddenly speeds up. Why can't you sit on 90-100kph the whole time? Why won't you let us overtake?? What is the go?? Anna No wonder we have bad name YOUR story in the last edition about thoughtless caravanners who accelerate when they arrive at overtaking lanes rings so true. I can't count the number of times I have seen this happen on our highways. No wonder caravanners have got such a bad name, particularly among truck drivers. Name and address supplied
Loving I LOVE this site. There is lots of helpful information here, thanks! We are just about to head off around Australia early in 2008! Vicki Pye LOVELY magazine, it's very newsy. I've been caravanning since I was three months old and I'm now 57. Thanks and regards. Duncan Gohl Pet charge unreasonable SHAME on that caravan park which tried charging a couple $13 just to visit friends for a cup of tea. And shame too on those council parks in one area of Queensland which levy a $12 weekly fee on caravanners who dare turn up with pets! Travelling is already expensive enough without being forced to pay for our four-legged friends as well. Let's be honest, when did you last see someone's pet using the laundry facilities, the toilets or taking a shower in the amenities block? This is just another way of squeezing more dollars from travellers, many of which are on a pension and can ill afford such unreasonable charges. Come on, be fair.
Driver Reviver great service I WOULD like to thank all those wonderful volunteers who staff Driver Reviver centres. Even with a caravan in tow, my wife and I made a point of calling in for a cuppa and biscuits while travelling between Mackay in Queensland and Ballina in NSW during the Christmas holidays. We were always greeted with a cheery smile ... and reciprocated with a handsome donation. A great service.
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Traffic
cops in hot pursuit ...
A PRE-CHRISTMAS party turned into a
knife-wielding free-for-all which ended with three people being stabbed at
a Canadian caravan park. Police broke up the
4.30am melee at the Peace Arch
Camping and Recreational Vehicle Park in Surrey and later charged
two people with assault.
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