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In this issue: •Relaxing in Robe •’Grub in the Scrub’ winners •Game for fun?

Holidays best out of park – GNT readers

Grey nomads up and down the country are getting used to an unfamiliar phenomenon … cheaper travelling! With a huge fall in the global price of oil in recent months, prices have become signifi-cantly lower at the bowser, and that’s saving caravanners and motorhomers a bundle.At some sites in Sydney, un-leaded dipped below $1 a litre, with prices at their lowest for around five years.However, there continues to be a huge difference in fuel prices depending on where in Australia you are filling up. According to the Austral-ian Institute of Petroleum, the average price of unleaded fuel in Canberra was 130.6 cents a litre last week, while the average in both Sydney and Melbourne was almost 20 cents per litre lower.In the regions, the price differ-ence is generally even greater … although prices are still fall-ing. According to the NRMA, the average unleaded price fell 3.4 cents per litre last week in the NSW regions, and 3.2 cents per litre for diesel. Over in the west, FuelWatch reports that, since July last year, prices have dropped

from 168.9c to 158c in Kar-ratha, and 167.6c to 158.9c in Port Hedland. However, in Broome, prices have dropped much more significantly from 177.2c to 144c during the same period.With the discrepancies between city and bush prices becoming ever more apparent, the ACCC is stepping up its monitoring of service stations.Chairman Rod Sims says there is a ‘presumption’ of price gouging in regional areas, where higher fuel prices can-not be explained by distribu-tion lags and transport costs.An analysis of prices in region-al towns in July 2014 shows the monthly average retail price of petrol was 5.7 cents per litre higher than in the five largest cities. By December, this difference was 17.6 cents.“The price falls interna- tionally aren’t being properly passed on into the market

The vacancy level goes down, the prices go up … and most grey nomads go elsewhere. That’s what a recent GNT poll revealed about caravan parks during the holi-days, with some 94.2% of respondents giving them a wide berth during the fes-tive season. “I won’t step foot in a van park until March next year,” declared Ray.Frank and Kathy T broadly agreed, but still thought the smaller – and quieter – inland parks were worth a visit.However, Dianne D was not impressed by van parks at holiday times, regardless of where they are.“Too crowded, noisy, expensive and, unfortu-nately, often many unruly out of control children!” she concluded.Anna O concurred. “I don’t need a playground or swim-ming pool!” she said.However, Paul P wasn’t so eager to label children as the main holiday problem.“Kids are okay but they insist on bringing their parents who create havoc, kicking balls everywhere and staying up all night drinking and yahooing,” he said.Click to comment

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place,” said Mr Sims.Nonetheless, grey nomads are making the most of what reductions they have seen.Ingenia Communities is a company owning several tourist parks. It says business is booming due to lower fuel costs for grey nomads who cover extensive ground, and to the decline of the Aussie dol-lar, which has made overseas travel more expensive.Dominic J is not complaining about lower fuel costs.“I have certainly noticed the difference when I fill up,” he said. “In fact, I have decided to make hay while the sun shines and get across the Nullarbor sooner than I would otherwise have done.”• How do fuel prices affect the way you travel? Where is the cheapest – and most expensive – fuel you have found recently? Click to comment

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. Van fire deathA man has died in a caravan fire at a caravan park near the Bussell Highway in Augusta, Western Australia. Firefighters found the man’s body near the door of the caravan. Police are investi-gating.

Rollover escapeThe occupants of a 4WD towing a caravan escaped serious injured in a rollover near the Kiel Mountain Rd overpass on Queensland’s Bruce Highway. Police believe the caravan began swaying before the tow vehicle rolled off the road and landed on its side in the median strip.

Highway tragedyAn 86-year-old man has died in Victoria after his ve-hicle collided with a caravan being towed in the opposite direction. Police believe the man crossed to the wrong side of the Princes Highway. The occupants of the car towing the caravan, a couple from Queensland, were uninjured.

Falls fallA teenage girl suffered serious head injuries after falling up to 15 metres from Eurobin Falls in Mount Buffalo National Park in Victoria’ northeast. The 14-year-old was flown to the Royal Child-ren’s Hospital in Melbourne.

Nomads in Brief

Van-loving couple opts for roads less travelled

Characters of the road

Jim & Jean (74 & 62) aka ‘kiwijims’ have travelled in

both Australia and NZ

What do you travel in?Currently, a 92 Coromal Seka 18’ but we are looking for a larger model with a shower and toilet.

Are you veterans?We have been caravanning most of our working lives. We had a caravan yard in New Zealand back in 1982 before coming back to Aussie. We’ve owned 40 caravans in our lifetime!

How was vanning in NZ? We found you only required two things to tow a caravan over there ... they were good steering and very good brakes! It’s not a place for the faint-hearted on some of those mountain roads.

Where do you camp?We like to free camp as much as possible in order to save the precious dollar and, in free camps, we have met a great deal of very friendly people. They seem to stick together in caravan parks, not at all friendly to those with smaller, cheaper vans.

Favourite on-the-road meal? Fresh scallops done in batter and cooked on an open fire in a good heavy fry pan with fresh mushrooms chucked in

just to add a bit of flavour.

Likes of the lifestyle? The freedom of going where and when you like, at your own speed with no boss to breath down your neck (ex-cept SWMBO!).

... any dislikes?Yes, we try to keep well off the main roads where possible. We love finding the little villages in the back country. People there are living the slow life, and are more friendly and easy going.

Favourite place to camp? Tasmania. What a great mob of friendly people live there. Plenty of free campsites and many with free barbecues. We spent four months down there and would go back tomorrow (if it was cheaper to get there).

Scariest nomad experience?On New Zealand’s South Island, we wanted to go over

the mountains and on fur-ther south to Queenstown. We climbed 11,000 ft in 20 kilometres! As we neared the top of the narrow road, a coach came around the corner. We had nowhere to go and I knew that, if I stopped, the weight of our van would drag us backwards. I kept the foot down and, luckily for us the coach driver saw our predica-ment and drove the bus hard into the side of the mountain. We just managed to scrape past! At the top of the hill, we stopped to boil the kettle with very shaking hands. That cup of coffee never tasted so good. Tips for other nomads?Don’t take extra stuff with you that you don’t require. It only adds to weight and makes for poor fuel consumption. Take your time and see all you can. It’s a mighty big country out there. Enjoy it because you’re a long time dead.

Jim and Jean enjoy free camping in their van

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Dear Editor,Re: Diesel survey (GNT: Issue 87) I had two petrol Land-Cruisers many years ago and they almost sent me broke between the amount of fuel they used and the main-tenance involved. I swung over to a 2000 model Diesel Nissan Navara about seven years ago, and I will never, ever go back to petrol. I have got 300,000km on it now, and I have put 200,000km of them on it in the last couple of years, and it is still going strong. I am hoping to buy the upgraded 2005 or 2006 Land-Cruiser 100 series GXL Diesel to tow my caravan soon, when one comes up for the right price. There are a multitude of petrols going really cheap, in beautiful condition, but I will only buy a diesel, and I am prepared to wait for the right one. I think Nissan have really read the Australian market wrong with the new Nissan Patrol being petrol only. I think it will be a huge flop here.

Mike P

Dear Editor,Yep, another diesel convert here. Both car and tow tug are diesel. Couldn’t go back. But why, does diesel have a 13 cent per litre disadvantage over 91 ULP?

Geoff (Mackay NQ)

Dear Editor,We hope to travel back down south and see more of Victoria and South Australia again this coming year. We did the Big Lap in 2014 and we have a lot of ‘must go back there’ places and ‘so much to see and do’ things. But that’s Australia all over. Oh, and a word of advice from what I have seen on my trip. Check and re-check your load before leaving camp. We have seen too many doors, window and hatches left open while driving (we have even done it ourselves). Please take it easy on the road and stick to the road rules. And don’t overtake on the double lines or on hills as we have seen many do … sure we were go-ing slow, but we have seen a lot of country!

Fred

Dear Editor,Thank you for the Grey Nomad Times. I’m always waiting for it to turn up in my email box. My wife and I read it from cover to cover every issue. We love reading everybody’s stories and ideas. It really is a community in a newsletter … even I write to it, and I hate writing letters normally! It’s different when it fuels your passion. We’re only part time grey nomads at the moment, but our goal is to hit the road as soon as possible.

Mike

Dear Editor,It has been reported that there is lots of rubbish being left behind in Victorian state and national parks and other free camps. This maybe so, but I don’t believe it’s being left by nomads? No, it’s those ‘whizz-bang’ drivers (those little vans with side sliding doors that go whizz-bang all night). We need as many nomads as possible to go caravanning and free camping in Victoria to show Tourism Victoria that we as nomads aren’t going take this lying down.

Roger C

Dear Editor,Re: Avoiding caravan parks in holiday season (GNT: Issue 87). I would avoid caravan

parks in future as the last time I stayed in one I found the kids ran around the vans, screaming and yelling. I was very tired and really tried hard to sleep. Finally, after 11pm, it went quiet and it was was heaven. I slept. For me no holiday parks. I’d rather stay in my garden and enjoy the singing birds while I am patinetly waiting for all the anklebiters to go back to school.

Johanna S

Dear Editor,I would like to avoid caravan parks in the holidays, but the caravan is not set up for free camping. I stay well away from coastal parks as they’re costs are prohibitive. Small country towns are better value and they come with country hospitality.

Kevin B

Dear Editor,The usual response I get from indolent parents to any comment about their young-sters’ behaviour is: “They are only children” … and precisely so. My response is: “Of course they are, and that is why you as the responsible adult in charge of them must exercise your parental responsibility and teach them how to behave more appro-priately.”

MP

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economy. Opponents say the proposed location, 150m back from the beach, is not right and will spoil the town. They want the park moved away from the coast, or to see one of the town’s two caravan parks developed instead.

Xmas Giveaway

The reponse to our ‘Grub in the Scrub’ Cookbook giveaway was amazing! Hundreds of you emailed in hoping to win a copy of Bernadette Jackson’s superb collection of favourite bush cooking recipes. The easy-to-follow book shows how to make great meals from a few simple ingredients and with the limited resources foundin bush camps. Congratula-tions to Don Baker amd Nettie (Nannette) Mullins who each win a copy. ‘Grub in the Scrub’ costs $25 with free delivery. It is available online from www.gunsgame.com or by phoning 0427 410 270.

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Dear Editor,Yes, avoid them like the plague! Too many greedy parks not only bump the prices way up but they also double up on some sites. We are only seven metres long (motorhome) with our awning. We often get poked on to the end of a site that has another small van on, so they get two fees for the one site! It’s just way to close to neighbours!

Narelle N

Dear Editor,Caravan parks are expensive outside holiday periods and jack their fees to absolute ripoff status during school holidays and we are certainly not prepared to be ripped off. We often spend time during the school holidays looking after grandchildren which we thoroughly enjoy and look forward to.

David M

Dear Editor,We avoid parks in the holidays mostly because of the high

way robbery of fee increases over this period, as well as the overcrowding. They crowd people in to rip off even more people, plus there are the minimum stay requirements. Ned Kelly and his gang are alive and well and posing as caravan park operators!

Kevin P

Dear Editor,The practice of raising fees to often astonishing levels in the high-demand holiday periods excludes my participation. The caravan park operators, through their commercial associations, actively en-

courage each other to all do the same. On a slightly different note, it was pointed out to me, by a credible source from within the industry, that a significant number of caravan manu-facturers have invested in caravan parks. Assuming this to be true, one would have thought that such investors would have an inter-est in keeping caravan parks as affordable as reasonably possible throughout the entire year.You would also think that, they would have a clear un-derstanding that the industry caters to a diverse, multi-level market rather than the appar-ent ‘one size fits all’ philoso-phy being actively pursued by the majority of caravan park operators. Perhaps, as caravan owners, we need to lobby the Caravan Manufacturers Association for their support in ensuring the survival and growth of camp-ing alternatives.

Alcopop

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While travelling the huge expanses of the Australian landscape as a grey nomad couple is one of life’s greatest joys, it can have its downsides.Few things can spoil the thrill of setting off on a big day’s Outback driving than the un-welcome sight of a husband, wife, or partner, fiddling with the vehicle’s audio system as they prepare to assault your ears with something you really don’t want to hear.While some couples are lucky enough to endlessly agree on what sounds suit the journey, most do not. Many a grey nomad reports having a trip across the Nullarbor ruined by a repetitive combination of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, while others say they could pretty much repeat the day’s news verbatim after a torturous trip up the Centre with their current affairs-addicted partner.However, it appears that an American company has identified this potentially catastrophic flaw in the grey nomad lifestyle, and has developed the technology to move the Big Lap one step closer to being utterly perfect.Harman says it can enhance a vehicle’s existing sound system by placing micro-speakers

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in the headrests of each seat, and a set of thin loudspeakers inside the roof. By combining this technology with specially-designed software, the firm is able to let each passenger hear a separate source of audio while radically reducing the amount of ‘sonic clutter’ cre-ated by the other sources.“We are able to play the desired source of audio in a particular seat but also simul-taneously play the opposite of the other sources of audio from the other seats, thereby cancelling their sounds out,” explains the project’s lead engineer, Christopher Lud-wig. “We can do that for any sources of audio in any par-ticular seat, thereby creating personalised audio zones.”The company says it uses algo-rithms to create a noise-can-celling effect and, while the other sounds don’t completely go away, it is able to achieve about a 15 to 20db reduction in audio from zone to zone.In practice what that means is that you still get a hint of

Couples can now travel together harmoniously

what the other passengers are listening to, but it’s very much background noise.A BBC journalist invited to test the technology reports a ‘surreal’ experience.“To switch back and forth from loud commentators discussing a baseball match to the chords of a Bruno Mars track by simply moving one’s head between the car’s two front seats seems to defy past experience of how sound should work,” wrote Technol-ogy Editor, Leo Kelion.Other than listening to com-pletely different sounds, the technology’s other benefits include people in the same car being able to listen to the same music at different volumes, and the driver hav-ing the ability to set his or her speakers to override the tunes with navigation prompts, while other passengers listen to the songs uninterrupted.• Do you and your travelling companion disagree over what to listen to on long journeys? Click to comment

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Take the road to Robe

The scenic fishing port of Robe is a natural stopping point for grey nomads explor-ing South Australia’s magnifi-cent Limestone Coast.Situated on Guichen Bay, about 350 kilometres south-east of Adelaide, off the Princ-es Highway, Robe is one of the state’s oldest towns and boasts a fascinating history, as well as many natural attractions. At one point in the mid 19th Century, it was South Aus-tralia’s second-busiest port after Port Adelaide but its importance slowly declined as the railway passed it by. Today, Robe boasts a perma-nent population of a little over 1500 but that number swells to many thousands during the summer tourist season. It has shops, cafes, art galleries and a genuinely relaxed ambience.Grey nomads can relive Robe’s pioneering history by walking the streets and viewing the numerous historical buildings, many of which have been me-ticulously restored. Highlights include the Robe Customs House, which is an attrac-tive limestone building built in 1863 to cater for the large number of Chinese passing through the port en route to the Victorian goldfields trying to avoid an arrival tax.The 12-metre-high Cape Dombey Obelisk, which was erected on Cape Dombey in

1852, is also a ‘must-visit’. As well as being used to navigate the entrance to Guichen Bay, rocket lifesaving equipment was also stored here. Rockets carrying baskets used to be fired out to distressed ships and helped save many lives.Robe is surrounded by beauti-ful lakes, which offer great opportunities for recreation. The town’s marina is actually housed in Lake Butler, which was once a natural lake where fishermen moored their boats in winter before pulling them up over the dunes to Guichen Bay for summer. A channel to the sea was cut in 1964, mak-ing Lake Butler available for safe mooring all year round. The town, of course, has a proud fishing heritage and is particularly renowned for its crayfish. For grey nomads wishing to fill their freezer, the options for rock, beach, har-bour, lake and boat fishing are all close by. The many white sandy beaches – including the 12-kilometre long ‘Long

Beach’ – are reputedly among the best in Australia.Many grey nomads choose to use the town’s caravan parks or nearby camping areas as a base from which to explore further afield, and there is much to see and do. About 50 kilome-tres away is the coastal town of Beachport and the Pool of Siloam, a salt lake which reputedly relieves sufferers of arthritis and rheumatism. It’s also well worth a drive out to Little Dip Conservation Park, where you can explore the region’s Aboriginal history or take the walking trails around the lakes. Few travellers miss the op-portunity to take a 15-minute drive out to the Mount Benson Wine Region, which is also known as ‘Terra Rossa by the Sea’ and, heading inland an hour or so, is the famed Nara-coorte Caves National Park.Robe is a small town that packs a mighty punch as a grey nomad destination. Click to comment

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Dear Jaclyn and Heidi,I used to love every aspect of the grey nomad lifestyle but, these days, I am more interested in getting a big Scrabble score us-ing the triple word space than I am in taking a tiring bushwalk in a national park. And I would much rather play cards under the shade of the awning than drive off to look at stalactites and stalagmites at yet another limestone cave. It’s not that I am lazy or that I don’t enjoy sightseeing, it is simply that I love playing games and having a laugh with new friends more. It’s got to the point now that I sometimes make up excuses to my husband, Tim, when he wants to go off and do some activity or other. Then, when he heads off, I scour the van park inviting any likely looking fellow games enthusiasts across to our van. Am I a naughty nomad?

Pam

It’s great that you have found something that you enjoy do-ing so much, Pam. However, I think you haven’t mentioned how Tim feels about being left to head off exploring on his own. From your description, it sounds like he is an accommo-dating and thoughtful sort of fellow, but I am sure solo cave tours and lonely bushwalks were not what he had in mind when the two of you set off in your van together. Of course, it is important for couples to have their own hobbies as they travel long term but, if your enthusiasm for your hobby stops you from getting out and exploring this great country, it might be time to re-evaluate your priorities. There is a happy medium here, Pam. Talk to Tim, value your time to-gether (and apart) , and make sure that your hobby doesn’t overbalance your experience. Jaclyn

Are you gambling away your life’s savings on these card games, Pam? If not, then what’s the problem? You’ve found a hobby you love and are good at finding others who share your enthusiasm. Tim is still pursuing his passion for getting out there with hiking boots and binoculars. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that, to be a grey nomad, you have to see ‘X’ or ‘Y’, and take this tour, or stop at this spot. The Big Lap means different things to different people. Don’t spoil what makes you happy with a misplaced sense of guilt. You can still pretend to be interested when Tim tells you about the Crested Grebe he spotted during his day, and he can pretend to be interested when you tell him about the clever Scrabble word you came up with. Vive La Difference!

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