This immaculate Toyota Coaster Deluxe Motorhome 1989 Long Wheel Base, 6 cylinder diesel with just 175,000km on the clock, is setup for long-range touring.
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This vehicle is ready to go. Priced to sell at $57,500.
Call 0427 526 659 for more information
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Roches Beach, Lauderdale
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My peripatetic friend Laurie Hoffman has finally sold her bed & breakfast business and is soon to hit the road fulltime in her ‘new’ Sunliner Eurospa.
She now has her Sunliner Mirage on a Toyota Hilux chassis for sale. It features a powerhouse of quality products and fittings.
Here’s a brief factsheet on this fully self-contained motorhome:
Many other extras including: beefed up 12v wiring and suspension, extra 12v outlets, low energy LEDs and fluros in all lights, Redarc Smartstart battery isolator, deep cycle battery charged from the alternator, 15″flat screen tv and pivoting wall bracket.
And there’s much more information, and lots of photographs, to be found here.
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Here’s a great solution for storing a two-piece flyfishing rod and reel with line fully-loaded and ready with fly attached.
Jim Hill of Oatlands, like me, has trouble tying on flies on cooler days, and this way he just pulls rod and reel out of the 40mm tube, joins the two pieces and he’s ready.
He suggested it would work fine with my four-piece rod with a shorter tube and perhaps a 50mm pipe. Watch this space for a progress report …
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While waiting out 100km/h winds at Ross yesterday this little pooch made friends.
A Jack Russell/Corgi cross as a best guess, he had no collar and his ears certainly perked up when he was called by any name with ‘biscuit’ in it. He also answered to ‘Chubby’.
Here he is guarding the entrance to the ‘office’.
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Last night’s office, about an hour before twilight finally disappeared. Oatland’s Lake Dulverton foreshore is a popular overnighter for those travelling the MIdlands Highway, and certainly enjoys a better reputation than the one foisted on it by The Mercury, in January 1898:
Lake Dulverton is little more than a quagmire — a breeding ground for pestilence and fever.
The lake has been transformed in recent months — flooded for the first time since 1990 — and teeming with more than 6300 brook and rainbow trout.
And, each afternoon, the local schoolchildren try and haul them in. For the majority it is has been their first opportunity to fish.
Organised by local angler Kerry Mancey, below, the lake has been stocked with 6000 yearling rainbows (about 200mm) released by the Inland Fisheries Service and supplied by Springfield Hatcheries in north-east Tasmania, who had them surplus to their needs.
And on October 20-21 two more lots of adult fish, mainly brooks, were released by the Australian Maritime College. The 300-odd fish were also surplus to their research needs.
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While travelling I usually stop once or twice a day to check emails from clients and, of course, I choose stopovers with a view. And, in Tasmania that often means an ocean panorama.
Above is the very pretty Pirates Bay lookout near Eaglehawk Neck, and below is a very low tide at the beach at the southern end of Dunalley.
Both turn a potential chore into a pleasure.
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Have just spent four days working with sculptor Peter Adams helping him get more than 300 blog posts transferred to a new software setup. You can see the results here.
His studio at the Windgrove Centre near Roaring Beach on the Tasman Peninsula enjoys stunning views of the thundering surf down below. While I was there the surf went from mirror-calm to near five metres.
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Missing bits for the solar installation, including the four new AGM batteries have finally arrived and been fitted.
The inverter and charger are wired up in the boot, the Morningstar solar charger is installed and showing all is well with the battery bank fully charged.
Only trouble is the existing 12v wiring seems to have decided to do things its own way and when you switch on the pump the kitchen light comes on!
Have left the bus overnight so they can get an early start. As usual, it has taken nearly double the time they initially indicated. Luckily the labour was costed into the quote.
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About eight years ago I was in a minor dispute with the Tax Office and they requested bank statements for the previous five years.
Not a problem I tell the accountant, they’re in a box in the basement storeroom and I’ll send them to you by the end of the month.
It was not to be. A wild storm, a blocked drain, and the storeroom was flooded. By the time I realised what had happened, about three days later, the documents were a solid brick of sodden paper.
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