Silverton to Arkaroola
Packed up and left camp around 8:30am and headed for Arkaroola. The first 100 or so kilometers are on the Barrier Highway until we reached Yunta where we turned off.
This is the start of our dirt roads. There had been some raing the a few days ago and the road show [...]

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Melbourne to Silverton
Left Melbourne at 4:30am. Went via Western Highway and Suntaysia Highway to Mildura, where we had lunch, then on to Broken Hill and Silverton.
Had a fantastic run all the way with virtually no traffic along the Sunraysia Highway.
Arrived at Silverton just after 3:00pm and set up camp at Penrose Park, a fantastic [...]

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Hi The Shadow here;    I took my family on a leisurely drive over Jeffrey’s Track from the lachan end toward CrabTree down the Huon Valley.    After noticing how fantastically wet and muddy it was, I was disgusted at the amount of rubbish on the side of the track and dumped in the bush.   E,g; empty coke [...]

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Brian Williams
September 01, 2008 12:00am

A FIFTH of World Heritage-listed Fraser Island foredunes have been destroyed by four-wheel-drive vehicles, prompting a call for limits to be set.
At least 235 vehicle tracks have been cut across Fraser’s dunes, with most related to camping.
Because dunes were the first defence against storms, vehicle-induced damage was likely to accelerate [...]

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Yesterday we set off in the trusty Prado around 6:30 am for our snow trip to Mt Selma.  A quick stop at Pakenham to pick up the BushWinch, just in case, and we were soon mobile again.
We arrived at the Thompson Dam just after 8:30, had a quick pitstop and let our tyre pressures down [...]

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