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Old 10-08-2010, 01:50 AM
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Interesting adentures you have had on your journey..makes for a good read.

The thread title caught my interest, as I have spent a few September's hunting geese in Innisfail.

Innisfail in Alberta, Canada that is.. I noticed another poster who is located on the Sunshine Coast, which is also the name of an area here in B.C.

Any places called Parksville down under?
We've got a joint called Parkes in western NSW. It was the place that took the original picture signals of the moon landings and sent them to NASA. I think theres a suburb called Parkesborough.
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Old 10-08-2010, 02:24 AM
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Ravenshoe - now there is a golf course! Huge boulders in the middle of the fairways and a lottery if your drive hit one of them. Loved your story Baz.
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Old 10-08-2010, 02:45 AM
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Off chasing Barra's and Jacks in the morning
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Old 10-09-2010, 04:14 PM
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Who would want to live in Innisfail!!!
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Not me, it is too Fuggin wet, Too Fuggin humid and the speed limits are too slow.
And dont get me started on the damn bridge being closed.
Are you working all next week Blair?
I will zip down if weather looks ok, or I will call in on Thursday as I travel toward Townsville for my return journey.

Didnt catch anything the other day, sitting up at Atherton watching Bathurst, Cobra still in Innisfail, too wet to drive it up.
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Maybe you could put a roof on the 540 in alice when you build it
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Paul, the owner already has the roof pics and I think he is keen to order one.

See you on Friday.
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Earleir last week Ronda and I went to Paranela park.
If you have not seen it before then it is a nice place to go for a look, sadly Ronda and I saw it in its finest (before fire and before cyclone) so for us it looked "run down"
20 years ago when Ronda and I first strated going out we would go swimming here all the time.










Stopped at a car place my brother inlaw told me about not far from his house at Atherton, it is a Chrysler/Valiant gold mine.












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Geez Dave! Give those Valiants a rest! Some look in reasonable nick actually. Paronella Park still looks interesting - like it should be in the jungle in Cambodia.
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Good to see you arrive home with yourself and car in one piece.Hope looking at my car makes it easier to use the build CD.Did Chris get the latest build CD as i asked for instructions on thelectric windows and they sent an updated build CD.
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I have made it home after my little journey.
I must say that the Ranges around Alice have never looked so good.
My return journey started on Thursday when I drove the short hop from Innisfail to Townsville, true to form it rained from Cardwell to about 30kls south of Ingham.
I will also add that I love RainX, the only time visability became an issue was when the rain became so heavy that it was misting onto the inside of the screen.
After drying me and the car out Thursday night at my inlaws house I set off at about 7am Friday heading toward Mt Isa.
Rain once again became an issue about 20kls out of Hughendon.
Here is a view heading into it.


It was then pretty consistant rain (heavy in patches) until Julia Creek (about 280kls), then it was gone with dry roads and cloud free skies.
Sady there was also road works which combined with rain have ended up caking my side pipes as the mud dried from there heat.


Although it is a little hard to see in the picture, there is about 1/2 inch of water covering the floor.


The motel staff where concerned over rain predicted for Friday night so they cleared a spot for me to park, they knew my car as I stayed at the same place on my way through the first time.

And I was in the room to the right

I then went around to check out Pauls 540 build, sadly Paul was called away, but he was kind enough to organise for his sister to show me the car, Thanks again Paul and great looking build.

I left Mt Isa at 8am this morning (picked up 1/2 hour in time difference) although it was a little cold today, it was atleast dry.
Arrived into Alice at 5pm local time.



As can be seen total travel distance was 5063kls, approx 250 of which was arround Innisfail, the rest was in 6 days driving (2 of those days where only 260kl each day, Innisfail - Townsville)
I used just over 625 litres of Premium.

Not a drop of water nor a drop of oil.
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Good to see you arrive home with yourself and car in one piece.Hope looking at my car makes it easier to use the build CD.Did Chris get the latest build CD as i asked for instructions on thelectric windows and they sent an updated build CD.
The disk I have a copy of does not show the power windows, I will get Chris to ring on Monday and get a new one, Thanks again.
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Well done Dave,
In just over a fortnight you have done more K's in your car than I have done in almost two years!

Great to hear it gave no you no trouble.
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