Coaster Deluxe for sale [SOLD]

Coaster Deluxe for sale [SOLD]

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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A special sale

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 [...]

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Ready rod

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 [...]

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My new best friend

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 twilight office

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 [...]

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Temporary offices

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 [...]

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Today’s office view

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 [...]

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Solar countdown

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 [...]

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Good changes

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 [...]

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