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lindoig7 · 4 years

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Saturday to Tuesday, 31 October -3 November.

Saturday

Definitely a challenging day’s drive! We started up the Bonang Road, but we have driven it several times recently so our expert navigator looked for some alternative routes. We went into the Young’s Creek area, where we have been before, but went a bit further, only to find the road closed after 10 or 15 clicks. (We tend to call these tracks ‘roads’ but the definition is somewhat fluid – sometimes a better description might be ‘deeply submerged mud-bogging wheel-ruts’.) We explored a few more tracks until we got back onto the tar where we had first engaged our low-ratio 4WD a week or so ago.

A few clicks further on, we detoured from the Bonang Road on to the Old Bonang Road. Oops – it was one scary track, hugging the edge of a cliff into a bottomless valley with rocks and fallen trees slowing our very cautious progress. I don’t handle heights well and I found quite a bit of the day’s drive ‘emotionally challenging’. Throughout the day, we had to drag quite a few fallen trees off the road and steep, wet, muddy, obstacle-strewn tracks seemed to be the order of the day on numerous occasions. We drove quite a few kilometres along the edge of the precipice, but I think we were both feeling that a less stressful drive was to be preferred so we eventually cut back to the bitumen. Interestingly, we saw the 20 km ‘mile-peg’ (distance marker?) from Orbost a kilometre or two after re-joining the main road and we had almost 50 km on the day’s odometer by then.

Onward and upward, we followed the road almost to Goongerah (where there is some open ground) but took the 36-Mile Track, then the Mt Jersey and Monkey Top Roads to the Waratah Flat Road – mostly through burnt forest again. We had attempted quite a few short abortive detours along the way, but we went into the Waratah Flat Camping Area and really encountered some obstacles. We had driven several kilometres past the designated Camping Area with almost nowhere to turn around when we came to a very steep muddy patch with a big log blocking the road and had to reverse quite a long way before we could do a 5-point (or was it a 7-point) turn and escape back to the main track. This is no exaggeration. In the last week or so, we have had to do numerous 9- or 11-point turns with Heather out of the car directing me as to whether I could get another centimetre or two without falling off the cliff or into a ditch. A sign somewhere along the track warning that the road was impassable would save quite a few travellers a lot of angst – and potential disaster!

We made a few more forays into the National Park, only to be stopped by huge logs or bogs across the track on every occasion. Several times, we had to back up quite a long way to find a turning place, but apart from it being a little scary at times, it was all a bit of fun and we enjoyed it (once the risk had abated!).

We eventually reached the Raymond Falls parking area where we had been a week or so ago. That was when they were doing aerial shooting of deer and the Falls area was closed, but it was open this time. We decided to do the first part of the walk to the top of the Falls – not so sure about the rest of the walk. But first, Heather had to spreadeagle herself across the carpark. She got out of the car onto a very loose gravelly patch and her feet slid away from under her and she went down in a horrendous heap, scraping her hands and knees and thumping her chest rather painfully. I saw her go down and I was sure she must have broken some bones but after we got her up on her feet again, she sat in the car for a few minutes and cleansed and dressed her wounds and still decided that she wanted to try the walk.

We made it to the top of the Falls – a large area of volcanic rock with a decent area of still water to the side of the main Falls and it was quite beautiful cascading over and between the rocks to the main drop. We looked around and took some photos and videos and Heather decided she would go back to the car, but I decided to try to get to the base of the Falls. A mere 135 steps plus quite a lot of additional rocky declines, but I made it – only to find that I then had to struggle back to the top again. Damn – think ahead!!

It was worth it though. The Falls were the most spectacular we have seen on the trip, not quite what we saw at Niagara last year, but pretty good for Oz. There was another big area of pondage at the base of the Falls and this fed a pretty wild, fast-flowing river - but the vegetation was so thick in the area that I couldn’t see enough to photograph it.

And so to home! Back in the van, we decided on fish and chips for dinner and Heather phoned through our order - to our favourite place in Warragul!!! When we turned up at our favourite place in Orbost, they had no record of our order, so Heather rang Warragul to apologise and had to pay for the order – and then start again in Orbost. A rather expensive dinner as it transpired!

Sunday

It was a beautiful sunny day and we went for a local walk in the morning. Heather had seen a post on Facebook advertising for people to walk 100 km during November as a fundraiser for Oxfam – and we both signed up for it. They suggest people do it in teams of 4, but we have nobody else to walk with so ‘Team Dynamic Duo’ is just us. We have walked more than 100 clicks every month this year so we should be able to do it. We also set a donation target and it has been great to see our friends contributing to that and encouraging us in our challenge.

Our walk today counted as the first bit of our Virtual Trailwalker program. Today is the first day of the challenge and we walked our quota for the day before lunch – just have to keep it up for a month. We walked up the hill towards the opposite end of town and back again via the supermarket so we were a bit loaded up for the last few hundred metres back to the van.

We settled on a plan for our departure from Orbost and booked an initial week at our next stopping point. We have booked one more week here and will then leave Orbost on Friday the 13th – I hope that is not an omen – or if it is, that it is a good omen! We may need to stop over somewhere on the way because I want Jayco in Bairnsdale to have another look at our HWS before we get too far away from places where we might access another service agent. But we will then head for Omeo and on via the Benandra Road to Colac Colac (pronounced Clack Clack) near Corryong in the high country. We will use that as our base to explore a little more around the area and who knows, maybe the New South Wales border may open (just heard that it will probably open on 23rd!) and give us better access to the Murray River and surrounds as well. Once we get there, we will check out the area before making any decision about extending our booking there or heading somewhere west of that corner of the State.

It is interesting that according to the Emergency Victoria website, every single road is closed for at least 100 km around that area. Places like Corryong (indeed the entire north-east corner of the State) are seemingly cut off in every direction – but when we rang the caravan park to make our booking, we were assured that it is ‘business as usual’ and all the roads are open and traffic is flowing through as normal.

The government really is in a mess! So much of east Victoria is closed for no apparent reason and with nobody doing anything to remedy the situation. Parks Victoria announced the reopening of most of their parks more than a week ago, but we haven’t seen any improvement yet. Many roads are blocked by fallen trees and many places have ‘closed’ signs on them after you drive miles and miles to get there – the challenge of positioning a warning sign at the start of these roads is obviously quite beyond them – whether it is the Parks, Roads or Forestry authorities. All their websites have incorrect information on them, usually not updated at any time this year, and this makes it very inconvenient, not to mention life-threatening, for the public who are trying to do the responsible thing, only to be thwarted by incorrect or non-existent information.

I did a 20-minute bird survey after lunch and submitted it on Birdata. The Birds in Backyards program is finished for the year, but I can do somewhat similar surveys right throughout the year. The ones I have been doing on a fairly regular basis around Melbourne for several years require a little more information than the BIBY ones and probably require a little more rigour but they are fun and I will try to do one most days for a while. When we were travelling in the Outback early last year, I submitted about 130 over a few months, but I won’t be doing that again this trip.

Monday

Something of a repeat of yesterday! Another great sunny day and a local walk to the other end of town, via a different route and through the Sensory Garden – but we didn’t need to go to the Supermarket today. I got an interesting phone call en route, from Toyota in Melbourne. It transpires that our service book was accidentally swapped with someone else’s when we had a service done in May - and they wanted me to drop it back in to them again. I told them where we were and that put a different slant on things. And of course, we have had our car serviced again in Bairnsdale since then so now need to get that recorded in our book. I agreed to post the book down to them with the receipt from Bairnsdale so they can put it in our book and post it all back to us at home. Strange things happen – usually when we are well out of town.

We did a few jobs around the van, including a batch of hand washing, and I did another bird survey after lunch. There are quite a few birds around the billabong at the bottom of the caravan park and I love just wandering along the heavily-wooded bank or across the bridge and watching all the wildlife there – including 3 Gippsland Water Dragons today. The birdsong around the Park has been wonderful since we first arrived here, but now that we are getting a few more sunny days, it is spectacular and almost constant. The most common are the Blackbirds and the Grey Shrike-thrushes (both delightfully musical), but there are perhaps another dozen or so birds singing to us regularly – and don’t forget the resident Kookaburras.

Tuesday

Overall, a disappointing and outstandingly frustrating day. We decided to drive a big loop north and east of Cann River. It starts just over 100 km from Orbost (about 30 km up the Monaro Highway from Cann River) and was obviously going to take several hours so we got on the road by about 9am. Arriving at the start of the loop, we found the road closed – Parks Victoria’s misleading information again. Undeterred, we headed off in the opposite direction to attempt a different loop. Thirty of forty kilometres later, this road was closed - Parks Victoria’s misleading information again!!! We tried several more shorter excursions, only to be thwarted on each occasion. Undeterred, we decided to do the Drummer Rainforest walk – alas, closed! Well, a drive up the opposite end of the Beehive Falls Road that was the first closure we had encountered might be some compensation – but after a few more kilometres, it was also closed.

We eventually tried the Wingan Inlet road, 34 fairly rough clicks south of the Princes Highway. We eventually got there and had a look at the lake there before attempting the walk to the beach (the other walks there were closed). After a kilometre or so, we came across a barricade and sign (pointing in the direction from which we had just come) advising that the walk was also closed.

We drove almost 400 km on the day and basically saw nothing – every attempt we made was thwarted by Parks Victoria’s misinformation. Both Parks Victoria and Emergency Victoria will be getting a really big serve from me tomorrow. Both of them have placed the public (including us) in many dangerous situations due to their utter incompetence. Any information either of them have provided in their brochures or on their websites should be treated with the utmost caution – it is so often worse than misleading: it is simply wrong.

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shannrussell-blog1 · 5 years

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Lincoln National Park is surrounded by sparkling turquoise waters, sheltered beaches as well as pounding ocean surf and limestone cliffs and is the ideal laidback camping location.

The park’s location at the southern tip of South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, 13 kilometres from Port Lincoln. It has a diversity of campsites; from sheltered sandy beaches overlooking Boston Bay to coastline exposed to the Southern Ocean.

Camping

With 12 camping areas to choose from, there’s a spot to suit every category of camper; trailers and caravans are well catered for and several tent only bush camps are hidden away at the end of 4WD tracks.

Some camping areas are just a few steps from a beach with boat access nearby, while others are sheltered behind dunes or overlook the beach from cliff tops. Many have bush toilets and picnic areas.

The weather during our stay was cool and persistently breezy so we checked out many of the camping areas in search of shelter from the wind. We ended up choosing Fisherman’s Point with eight campsites on a raised rocky area with sheltered beaches either side.

This bay is so sheltered that white tops and waves miraculously disappear as they pass the headlands. The tide just whispers its way onto the shore.

Easy access

An extensive sealed road network means that most of the park is easily accessible by two-wheel drive vehicles; most unsealed sections are well-graded roads with 4WD tracks to some of the more remote campsites clearly marked.

We didn’t need to engage 4WD for our Nissan Patrol and Track Trailer Tvan anywhere we went.

Activities

Activities on offer include fishing, bushwalking, bird watching, 4WD exploring. Or you can just meditate to the sound of waves brushing the beach.

As we were just in the mood for a slow day, we contented ourselves with walks on the beach and lazy days with a good book. We took in the antics of the abundant bird life from our clifftop campsite.

We had a ‘balcony’ view of daily aerial and water displays from Pacific gulls, pelicans, cormorants and dusky wood swallows. There were superb fairy-wrens in full breeding blue splendour among the coastal vegetation at our camp. While on the beach pied oystercatchers and sandpipers fed at the shoreline.

There are more than 100 kilometres of walking trails within the park. We did choose to pass on bushwalking when were there, but these trails range from easy short walks to challenging treks.

The Investigator Trail is the most extensive trail on offer. This trail named after the HMS Investigator, the ship commanded by Matthew Flinders while surveying the coastline of Eyre Peninsula in 1802. It’s divided into sections that can be walked or hiked separately – or trekked as a whole.

Port Lincoln

If you tire of the quiet life, Port Lincoln is about a 30-minute drive away to stock up on supplies. When you’re there, check out the bronze statue of three-time Melbourne Cup winner, Makybe Diva. Or grab a cappuccino before heading back to the bush.

However, if you crave isolation and wilderness, the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area, located at southern end of the park offers a very special experience.

Check out Lincoln National Park on the Parks Australia Website for further information on camping fees and locations as well as things to do and alternative accommodation.

Have you been to Lincoln National Park? Maybe you have some advice for others planning a trip to the area?

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rivkarevans · 7 years

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Five Minute Camp Setup Tips with Adventure Kings

In today’s world we are all more time conscious. Nobody likes to waste time, and few of us have any spare to let slip by. That doesn’t mean we don’t have time to relax and enjoy ourselves, but it does mean people are always looking for more efficient ways to do things. We all want to spend less time fussing or working hard and more time enjoying ourselves, and this is especially true when we go camping.

Camping is our down time – our chance to relax. So it only makes sense that you don’t want to spend longer than you have to ‘working hard’ at camp. This is a major reason why the Kings range of swags, roof top tents, awnings, gazebos and awning Tents and gazebo tents have taken Australia by storm. All of these are so easy to set up, they’ve totally eliminated the time people used to waste trying to pitch elaborate dome tent setups with more colour-coded poles than common sense. By helping people get into relaxation mode quicker, Adventure Kings camping gear is helping more people make the most of the time they have at camp. Less time fussing, more time fishing or throwing the footy around? Sign us up!

Now, Adventure Kings is famous for its ultra comfy camping gear. Our Big Daddy Deluxe Swags and awnings are found at nearly every campsite in Australia now. They’re legendary. We sell hundreds of gazebos each week, heaps of roof top tents, and more and more camp accessories like portable BBQs, chairs, roll up tables and LED camp lighting every day as well. Kings gear is simple and logical to setup and use, which means it takes little time to get the most out of it.

The rest of this article goes one step further – it focuses on five minute camp setups for people who only have five minutes (or less) to make camp and hit the hay for some shut eye. Who on earth only has five minutes, you might be wondering? This article is for the people who drive five hours after work on a Friday to go fishing for the weekend. Or people who need to put thousands of kilometres under their belt (which means a few sleeps along the way) to get to their main destination where they can then slow down and enjoy camp a a relaxing speed. Imagine you and a mate are driving from Melbourne to Cape York to enjoy two weeks at the tip – you don’t want to rig up elaborate campsites at midnight if you just need a few hours sleep before getting back in the saddle. Sure, you’ll use your Kings gazebo or mesh floors and camp lighting when you’re at the Cape, but while you’re doing big days behind the wheel, being able to pull over and be sleeping within five minutes is a huge bonus compared to needing to spend half an hour making camp just to have to pack it up again three hours later.

We do lots of trips like this and have found that a quick setup can still be very comfy and isn’t hard to organise. We often camp this way when leaving work on a Friday to go fishing for the weekend. By the time you pull into camp at 11pm, you want a quick and comfy campsite rigged up so you can sleep quickly and then get up before dawn to go fishing. You are out all day and don’t need a huge camp in situations like this. After a Sunday morning session, you can also pack up in five minutes and hit the road back home – no need to spend half an hour packing up when you’ve barely spent any time at camp for the weekend anyway. Bigger campsites are awesome when you’re spending time at camp or have a few nights in one spot, but if you’re in and out under the cloak of darkness, speed is key.

Lighting

Keep it simple with camp lighting when you’re making a quick camp to grab a few hours sleep. All you need is a bright Kings Illuminator LED Head Torch. Bright enough to help you set up your swag and rummage around in your Titan Rear Drawers, and the fastest to set up – it takes no time at all. Keep one in your glovebox so you know where it is at all times and you’re set. No need to rig LED lights off awnings or gazebos, or to run power leads into your car. Take your head torch into your swag with you, and in the morning it’s at hand if you’re getting up before the sun.

Sleeping

Nothing beats a Kings Kwiky swag in situations like this. The name tells you exactly what this swag was made for – quick and easy setups! It is a very simple design with a pole at each end to keep the 260gsm rip stop canvas off your face and feet. While being a quick swag to setup, it hasn’t gone without the comforts and features we know you’ve come to expect from Kings camping gear. It still has a 450gsm waterproof PVC base so you won’t get wet from underneath, and it still has lots of insect proof mesh so you can sleep cool in summer without being eaten alive. When doing quick camps you often don’t have the time to rig up mesh floors and waterproof shelters, so a waterproof base gives you extra protection from a wet ground without you having to do anything else.

When you get to camp all you have to do with this swag is unroll it, put two poles in, and peg out two ropes. That’s about as quick as swag camping gets. A tip to save even more time is to keep your Kings sleeping bag inside the swag at all times so you have one less thing you have to do. Then just grab your pillow and jump in. It’s also quick to setup in the morning as well so you can be back on the road just a couple of minutes after waking up – important when you have 1,000 or more kilometers to travel!

That’s all we use when making a five minute camp in good weather. An LED Illuminator Head Torch and Kwiky Swag will have you from drivers seat to sleeping in less than five minutes. But if it’s raining or looks like it might rain, we recommend you put your Kings awning to use. Kings awnings can be set up in about 60 seconds or so once you’ve done it a couple of times, and if you’ve got a 2.5×2.5m awning, there’s a trick you can do to give you heaps of dry space with next to no extra work. If you fit an Adventure Kings awning wall to the end of your awning (the opposite side to the bit attached to the roof rack) it can actually stay attached while you roll and unroll your awning from its PVC protective bag. So you can get to camp, unroll your awning, and then peg out two corners of the awning wall and you’ve got all the benefits of extra shelter without having to do much work to set it up. You might be wondering why you would need so much shelter if you’re only making a quick camp, but anyone travelling with a few mates will know it’s important to have everyone undercover if the rain comes. Otherwise the precious few hours sleep you’re trying to grab can be very broken if it rains, making it dangerous to drive the next day if you’re not recharged.

At Adventure Kings we love helping people set up big campsites with all the creature comforts of home. But we also love helping people who are in a hurry camp comfortably on their way to remote locations, or as they try to suck every spare minute out of a weekender trip away. However you camp, we’ve got you covered.

from 4WD Supacentre via 4WD Supacentre on Inoreader https://www.4wdsupacentre.com.au/news/five-minute-camp-setup-tips-with-adventure-kings/ from 4WD Supacentre https://frwdsupacentre.tumblr.com/post/171292858606

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4wdequipment · 4 years

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Reasons to Invest in Side Steps before your next 4x4 Adventure

4wd side steps Melbourne are available in an array of styles and come in various quality levels. Many base model 4x4s, trucks and SUVs come with them as standard and are generally made of a composite plastic or aluminium material.

If you want the best of the best for your 4x4 adventure, high-quality 4wd equipment Melbourne such as side steps are a must.

The following are some of the reason to invest in side steps before your next 4x4 adventure.

Protection from the Damage

Side steps, rock sliders, ford range steps are some of the options that can protect your vehicle body and parts of the tire from damage when off-roading.

These sides can also be used to prevent opening the doors of the 4wd since they stick out from the body. Adding them to your 4wd vehicle can prevent rock damage while off-roading, parking lot scrapes and more making them worth the investment.

Comfort and access

Many 4wd vehicles are larger than the general vehicles which mean it is harder to get in and out of them. When you have 4wd side steps Melbourne, it makes the process much easier.

This also provides a better level of access to your 4wd vehicle if you end up stuck in a mud pit or some other obstacle when you are off-roading.

Style and looks

The finest quality 4wd side steps Melbourne are better looking when compared to the standard ones. When you are upgrading your 4wd Side Steps of vehicle, style matters, even if utility and performance hold the most importance with multiple Brand like. Nissan Navara Side Steps, Toyota Side Steps Hilux, and Ford side steps. It is always better to research well and hire a company that offers stylish yet the finest quality side steps for 4wd vehicles.

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4wdequipment · 5 years

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Things you must know about Bull Bars

If you have ever played any kind of sports, then you must be aware of the concept of bull bar. This is like an extra padding which you need to protect yourself and your rig is no different. the grille on the front end of vehicle is extremely fragile and prone to damage. A bull bar is an accessory which is attached to the frontal part of the vehicle to maximize its protection against collisions.

Protecting your vehicle with Bull Bars

With Navara Np300 Bull Bar, you can protect those vulnerable, forward-facing components while adding serious off-road style. Also known as bumper guards, these Nissan Navara Equipments are constructed with stainless tubing and sealed against the elements with your choice of polished finish or powder-coating. Each is crafted by time-trusted manufacturers for your specific model, make and year. They typically feature one-piece construction, solid, long lasting durability that stands up to about anything the road can throw at you.

Off-Road Protection without limiting your vehicle

Skid plates offer the same sort of protection for your undercarriage, while offering the same functionality as standard bull bars. They include the added feature of a stainless grille that cushions the underside of your bumper from the damage often sustained by climbing over a creek bed. Skid plates are polished to a mirror shine and are almost impervious to rust, delivering all-weather protection for many years. One can also consider Nissan Navara side steps which are meant to provide side protection to vehicles.

Additionally, many bull bars and skid plates come with pre-drilled holes for mounting add-ones like fog lights—ideal for looking for some added functionality and safety without extensive modification.

What is the Best Bull Bar for you?

Best of all, skid plates and bull bars bolt directly onto the frame of your vehicle with almost no effort required and absolutely for most vehicles. Each kit 4wd Equipment comes with all the essential installation hardware and step-by-step instructions, allowing you to mount them just about anywhere you park your vehicle.

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4wdequipment · 5 years

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Bull Bar: An Outstanding Safety Device

A bull bar is a stylish safety device which is attached to the frontal part of the vehicle to protect it and its passenger against minor collisions with animals. The first name obviously came from the requirement to protect against hitting cattles and in Australia from kangaroos. Earlier these Holden Colorado Accessories were installed only for defense but now they are also installed to enhance the look or give sporty appearance to vehicles.

There has always been some controversy involved on their usage. While they can offer enhanced protection they sometimes also pose some risk to pedestrian but by choosing the right design, one can cut down any potential risk. In Australia and the United States, Holden Colorado Bull Bar are very common. Australia has passed some laws concerning the design of these safety gears. Some manufacturer even came with the idea to use plastic in their products which would deform on collision and considered safer for pedestrian and the vehicle as well.

There are two important designs of bull bars—in first design, the front bumper is completely replaced and considered more durable and in the other design, it is added as an accessory. Style may block out lights, so it is recommended to get light mounting points from the market. In the Unites States many of these 2018 Holden Colorado Accessories are made from highly polished stainless steel and are designed to look more appealing along with the aim of protection. Some manufacturers even offer two inch tubing which when powder coated in black may enhance the appearance of the bars.

Another style is a combination of skid plate and bull bar designed for off road driving and offers more protection to the front end of the vehicle. Typical Holden Colorado Accessories like bull bar be bolted on rather than previous ones which required cutting and welding for a more accurate and finished fit. With numerous benefits, getting a bull bar is a must if you drive in an area with high livestock.

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4wdequipment · 4 years

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Reasons to invest in Side Steps before your next 4x4 adventure

4WD side steps are available in an array of styles and come in various quality levels. They are even available on base model of 4x4s, jeeps, SUVs and other trucks, often made out of a thin aluminum or composite plastic material.

However, if you wish to build the ultimate 4x4, you will want to upgrade to higher-quality side steps. The following are a few the most important reasons that you consider investing in high-quality side steps bullbar Melbourne.

· Damage Protection

4WD side steps, Holden Colorado slide bar, nerf bars, etc. can all protect the body of your vehicle, and even parts of your tires, from various types of off-road and other damage.

These 4wd side steps Melbourne can even keep people from opening their doors into your rig because they stick out further than the body. Whether you are avoiding parking lot scrapes or serious rock damage, it is always worth the upgrade.

· Access and Comfort

Most 4x4 rigs are taller than the average vehicle, which can make getting in and out of them a little more challenging.

With 4wd side steps Melbourne, you will be able to get in and out much easier. Moreover, you will have better access to your 4×4 when you are stuck in a mud pit or another obstacle.

· Longer Lifespan

Basic side steps as mentioned are often made from cheap plastics, composites, or thin metals that are not durable at all.

When you are outfitting a 4x4, durability is the primary concern, thus, it is imperative to research well and get in touch with a well-known 4wd parts store that has been in the business for the longest time offering high-quality side steps for 4wd vehicles.

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4wdequipment · 4 years

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Significance of installing a Bull Bar in your 4wd

A bull bar is a simple 4wd accessory but extremely effective addition to the front of a 4WD vehicle. These bull bars are available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials including steel, alloy, and even plastic, a bull bar is also known to provide protection when driving off-road, against logs, banks, scrub, and similar obstacles.

Bullbars are paramount for the safety of you and your 4wd in highway, rural and remote-area travel, even more so when you take your 4wd off-road.

When it comes to investing in a bull bar, it is strongly recommended that you research and get in touch with a reputable 4x4 supplying company that offers the finest quality 4wd accessories, including bull bar, Nissan Navara side steps, etc.

Navara Np300 bull bar offers by far the best form of vehicle protection against animal strikes and other collision types.

These bull bars aren’t just about making a 4wd vehicle look good, the following are some of the pointers that state the significance of installing a bull bar in a 4wd.

● Animal collision

If your vehicle isn’t well protected with a bull bar and in case you hit an animal, then the impact can easily disable your car, leaving you stranded, or at least cause some major damage.

A Navara Np300 bull bar protects the front of the car so if you do collide with an animal, then also you have got a fair chance of driving on.

● General protection

Driving off-road is a bit risky because of the tough roads. A bull bar offers general protection to the 4wd vehicle both off-road and also on tarred or paved roads.

This includes protection from rocks, sticks, ruts, logs, and also in minor accidents where a front-on collision with another vehicle or object takes place.

● Mounting point

There are many ways to mount winches without bull bars, however, a bull bar is the easiest. A Navara Np300 bull bar provides a perfect mounting point for winches and other accessories such as sand flags, driving lights and more.

In conclusion, these above are some of the pointers that state the significance of installing a bull bar in a 4wd vehicle.

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4wdequipment · 5 years

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How to Invest in Quality 4wd Equipment for your vehicle?

If you are seeking ways to ensure the highest degree of safety when driving in the rough road, then you should consider investing in Nissan Navara 4wd equipments.

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4wdequipment · 5 years

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lindoig7 · 4 years

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Saturday-Tuesday, 17-20 October

Saturday

Another night of fairly consistent rain. It started just as we were turning in and kept up until we were getting up this morning. We are parked under a big elm tree and everything has been coated with its big soggy seed clusters ever since we arrived. They form a soft blanket on everything and it clings! I have picked off hundreds of clumps of it from the car, but the awning also needs attention as does the whole roof of the van. And when it rains, we hear two distinct sounds on the roof: the rain pitter-pattering gently on the roof and the big drops that collect in the seed clusters in the tree and ping loudly on the roof when they fall.

The rain eased off during the morning so I went birding for about 45 minutes and saw 31 species – the best count I have had since about our second day here when I think I saw 43 species in 3-4 hours. And one special thing I saw today was a Grey Goshawk (light morph). We saw a dark morph in Queensland some 14 years ago, but this was a good sighting for me. I watched a couple of Magpies dive-bombing the top of a big tree across the river so knew they were trying to scare something away – so looked closely with my binoculars and saw the magnificent Goshawk just before it took off and flew quite low right over me with one Maggie in hot pursuit.

I also had a go at the HWS. There seems to be two different problems – electrical and gas/air issues. I suspect the ‘repairs’ resulted in some electrical modifications and one of the terminals seems suss. I have improved the connection and it is working again OK at present, but it still burns unevenly and periodically fades to the point where it blows out and has to restart itself. We can cope fairly easily at present, but will need to get it fully resolved before we head into much more remote areas.

We spent the rest of the day inside the van. We had intended going for a walk, but we had another exciting thunderstorm in the early afternoon and then it rained for the rest of the day. We donned our raincoats and went outside during a lull in the rain to try to clean some of the elm seeds off the awning. We rigged up a second hose and washed most of it off – and within half an hour, it was raining again and more clumps of seeds were falling on to our nice clean awning. They clump into big gluggy, ultra-soggy lumps that stick to everything and are hard to remove.

We had a delightful hour and a half on the phone with our kids - a really lovely special time that we hope they enjoyed as much as we did.

Sunday

We had a slow start to the day today. It rained most of the night again and we had a leisurely brekky. I cooked bacon and eggs under the awning and we just lazed around for an hour or so until it’s was time for a Zoom AGM for our LAC Club - the Inner Melbourne one (we are members of three). That lasted almost an hour with a bit of socialising at the end. We hadn’t seen any of these people since New Year’s Day and it was fun to just chat with them for a few minutes.

Heather cut some sangers and we went for a drive. We went a few clicks down the highway to Newmerella, then cut south to Corringle. We did a short walk over the dunes to the beach and then went on to the estuary, another walk almost immediately across the Snowy River from Marlo. I did a 20-minute bird survey and will post it tomorrow. (National Bird Week officially starts tomorrow and I usually do about 20 or 30 surveys during the week and post them on the Birds in Backyards app so that will be my first for this year. It is interesting that although it doesn’t start until tomorrow, more than 7000 surveys, listing 230,000 birds, have already been submitted.)

We ate our lunch out there then wound our way back past the lake to the Snowy again and followed that back to Orbost. But we never stopped there. We kept going a few kilometres up the Bonang Road and turned off to Young’s Creek. We parked at the Picnic Area and did a walk to the Waterfall. It was quite impressive with a lot of water flowing down the creek, but we never went swimming!!!! We then started walking on a side track that took you to the base of the Falls, but thinking of the climb back up again, we wimped out halfway down. We did see lots of flowers though, including plenty of orchids. The voracious mosquitos were fierce there. Despite smothering ourselves with repellent and covering up every spare/square inch of skin, I still got a few bites. They bite right through our clothing.

We were going to do one of the other walks that started from the same place but it was closed - in fact all the other walks were closed due to fire damage.

We retraced our steps (actually, it was our wheel-tracks) and went on to another area where there was an old reservoir. It wasn’t huge, but we walked to the weir (a kilometre or so) surrounded by birdsong, but mainly invisible birds. I was able to identify about 7 species there, but there were numerous other calls from birds that I simply couldn’t recognise.

Getting out of the area was more difficult than expected. We took a few wrong turnings, but my brilliant navigator enlisted the aid of her Maps.me app and we finally found our way back to the Bonang Road, a few kms north of where we left it a few hours earlier. It was an interesting drive over very rough roads and we had to engage our low ratio 4WD for the first time this trip to get through some deep muddy water and exceptionally rough patches before we got back to the bitumen.

We had carried a big rubbish bag full of recycling with us all day, but jettisoned that at the Information Centre before reaching home. They had suggested that it was the best way to recycle anything in Orbost so we have taken advantage of their offer to use their bin a couple of times.

Monday

Despite it being a (technical) home day, it was really enjoyable. We went for a longish local walk in the morning along the side of the Snowy River as far as we could go from here and then cut up into town to get a couple of things. En route, we found a fascinating display of art and history at the Orbost Cultural Centre.

They have quite a few large painted panels in the big outdoor under-floor area that walk you through a lot of the pre- and post-colonial period, but there are also three others with an audio history of the region since long before the age of the dinosaurs. It was quite engaging without being overly indigenous in character and while looking at it (and watching some equally fascinating birds over the fence - a Grey Butcherbird and a family of Grey Shrike-thrushes) we fell into conversation with two of the artists who were also running the Centre. It is closed of course, but they are looking forward to reopening soon and one of them invited us back next Monday for a private tour. The other one was a young indigenous woman and she told us about a few interesting places to go to around the area so we will explore them too. After our negligible shopping excursion, we walked to the other end of town and down to the Sensory Garden. It was lovely! There were quite a few birds that provided an audio experience – as did the frogs – and there were heaps of trees and flowers to look at as well as several to touch and feel. There were herbs and other plants to smell and even some interesting leaves and vegetables to taste – we brought some herbs and rainbow shard silver-beet home to add to our meals too. It was really interesting and occupied us for about an hour just exploring.

In the afternoon, I went birding and did 5 surveys around the area that I will post as part of my contribution to BIBY - Birds In BackYards as part of Bird Week.

After dinner, we decided to watch a movie rather than another episode of Justified but it was so pathetically dated, we turned it off and got Justified anyway.

Tuesday

A great day today. We followed the advice we got at the Cultural Centre yesterday and drove the Murrungowar Forest Road. It starts about 20 km from Orbost and is a 30.2, 32, 34 or 38 km route (depending on which sign or brochure you read) estimated to take 2 hours – of course, we took nearly 5.

Before we left, we had to arrange some new scripts for all the drugs we take and due to circumstances, that took well over an hour with multiple phone calls and a longish email, even though we had to order it online. No problem, but it was nearly 11.30 before we started our day’s drive.

There were eleven ‘stops’ along the way with lots of interesting information about the forest, the trees, and the logging operations over the past 100 years or so and there was also the the opportunity to do a few walks along the way. The main walk was closed (and maybe the second main one too, but the sign was a bit inconclusive so we did that one anyway). There were side roads criss-crossing everywhere as well as numerous rivers and streams with narrow bridges. We got out and undertook short explorations several times, mainly looking at plants and flowers, but we also walked to a couple of waterfalls, and along a creek or two. Most of the area was burned out in the bushfires, but logging is still going on – maybe salvaging the timber that won’t survive the fires – so we had to drive carefully in places where log-trucks and other heavy equipment was still working. It was a really interesting drive and we probably learned a fair bit about forestry, but it was sad to see so much fire carnage throughout the whole area.

When we got back to the Princes Highway, we went directly to Go (did not pass Gaol) and started the whole drive again. We wanted to find the Rocky River Crossing that we had been told about at the Cultural Centre as a wonderful place to visit – and the Rocky River Road turned off about 10 km along the Murrungowar Road. Alas, we never found it due to the plethora or roads, tracks, confusing signage and so on, but we may well go back to look for it again.

Along this road, there was a really big crossing over the Brodribb River and we walked around that area and saw numerous Gippsland Water Monitors – lizards about half a metre or more long. I photographed one on the first day we were in Orbost (and posted the pic to the blog) but these guys were obviously camera shy and just ran away and hid from us.

We got home early enough for an extended Happy Hour – and being still quite warm, we enjoyed having it outside for the first time this trip. That was the last of our bubbles so we now need an urgent shopping trip to replenish our supply.

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