My mate is assisting a friend ferry a large yacht from Thailand to England, they started in December and now are stuck in the Mediterranean. Food for 6 days left, bad weather and no port will accept them.
For the past year we've been planning and getting everything ship shape to go away and do a whole load of campground hosting in SA, NSW, WA and NT. Police checks, working with childrens checks (5 of them) nation parks mandated four wheel drive certification (which taught us nothing new), remote area first aid certs, house sitters, etc., etc. We intended to be away fo a year going from national park to national park around the country.
Plans are now kaput but at least we have a years worth of placements set up which means that as soon as the campground hosting programmes restart we'll be away.
Cheers,
Mark F...
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My mate is assisting a friend ferry a large yacht from Thailand to England, they started in December and now are stuck in the Mediterranean. Food for 6 days left, bad weather and no port will accept them.
Fuji white RRS L494 AB Gone
2023 Ford Ranga
Yes our son wanted to come home from Japan mid July to the middle of August, to see his dad. I went to the travel agent and they said not to book anything at the moment, they said wait until end of June and see where this goes. If he did come home at this time he would have to be self isolation for 14 days which wouldn't work as Mario is in self isolation, by order of this Dr. as he doesn't want Mario out in the public because of the MSA. It would be fatal for him if he caught it. Brendon was upset over it but he does understand why. So everyone stay safe and healthy out there. Heather
PLEASE don't come up here unless somehow the virus is completely gone by then. I realise you're waiting to see what happens, but if there is any doubt, please don't travel up here. This virus is incredibly contagious and our hospitals can barely manage regular life - a few cases of this would overwhelm them. The RFDS is usually stretched pretty thin as well, so it wouldn't take much to slow them down too. From what's happening overseas, I'm expecting the rest of the year to be taken up dealing with this thing.
The dry season is really important to us up here because it's the only break we get from the heat. (Well, it's sort of a break.) I was all set to do a lot of travelling this dry season and I've pretty much written it off already!![]()
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Last edited by Narangga; 22nd March 2020 at 08:31 PM. Reason: Added camping
Cheers, Dale
PIC - It comes with the Territory
'The D3' - 2006 TDV6 HSE
2008 Kimberley Kamper Sports RV
Previously Enjoyed:
2002 Adventure Offroad Campers 'Cape York'
2000 D2 Td5 - plus!
1997 Defender 110 Wagon - fully carpeted
We had a visit to Melbourne booked for next Thu-Sat for a concert which was cancelled, refund on the tickets is coming and Hotels.com changed our booking for accomodation from non refundable so that we can get a refund. Flights are rescheduled until September at this stage so we'll see what happens by then.
All in all a pretty good outcome. We were planning another trip from Batten Hill in June but It doesn't look like that will be going ahead.
Regards,
Tote
Go home, your igloo is on fire....
2014 Chile Red L494 RRS Autobiography Supercharged
MY2016 Aintree Green Defender 130 Cab Chassis
1957 Series 1 107 ute - In pieces
1974 F250 Highboy - Very rusty project
Assorted Falcons and Jeeps.....
MY21.5 L405 D350 Vogue SE with 19s. Produce LLAMS for LR/RR, Jeep GC/Dodge Ram
VK2HFG and APRS W1 digi, RTK base station using LoRa
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
Not me but my brother , cancelled planed to ZN for big car show after advice from AU & NZ Gov. May be next year.![]()
One of my mates and his wife had a cruise canceled that was going through South East Asia, including a couple of stops in China. They then booked a Mediterranean cruise with a couple of stops in Italy. Now that has been canceled as well. He breathed a sigh of relief when he got more than 95% of his money back from his insurance policy. I hear others haven't been so lucky.
Life is just a series of obstacles preventing you from taking a nap.
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