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Bushwacker Links Page
 Acknowledgments.
Acknowledging money, time and/or materials donated to the chapter to enhance it's benefit to the members.
Hal & Karin
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Hal and Karin Kraus have kindly donated the annual running costs of this website.
Hal's businesses, New Life Roofing and DaDeDa blah blah blah. |
George & Sue |
George & Sue McKay have donated their time to create and maintain this website.
George's business, Surge Computing Services Pty Ltd specialises in RV related technology products and 'cheap n cheerful' website design and hosting. |
John & Lyn |
Lyn is kindly manufacturing and donating chapter badges for sale at meetings. All proceeds go to the Bushwackers. | .
CMCA Links.
Links to CMCA resources, other CMCA Chapters and Chapter Sponsors.
Please support these entities, as they support us.
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The Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia Inc. provides support to it's members through it's staff and Ken Tame Insurance Brokers to its 50,000+ financial members.
Access to its services is available via membership aopplication, and a very reasonable fee. Membership includes a subscriptions to its substantial monthly professional magazine The Wanderer. |
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The geographic area in Queensland known as 'Wide Bay' extends from just south of Gympie, north to Bundaberg and includes Maryborough and Hervey Bay. It is a rapidly growing area with many tourist attractions, Fraser Island, whale watching, turtle rookeries, national parks, etc, etc, and is steeped in history. Travellers could spend weeks or months in the area and not see all the attractions. The Wide Bay Wanderers are a group of enthusiastic motorhome and campervan owners who gather regularly, usually monthly, to enjoy travel in our region and "Laugh More and Live Longer" |
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The Island Wanderers Chapter's objective is to promote and encourage family and single members social activities including, though not limited to, weekend rally's, bush camps, safari's and other such activities that meet the social needs of members.
These social activities are designed to create an atmosphere of one big happy family and offer assistance both in a technical sense and social side of the Chapter.
Island Wanderers is the original State based Chapter and as such our social activities occur throughout the State based on members recommendations. |
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Highway Wanderers.
We are the Highway Wanderers Chapter of the CMCA. We are members of the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia who live in motorhomes and who travel Australia for most of the time.
Highway Wanderers have a different lifestyle from those motorhomers who use their vehicles for weekending, holidaying, or tripping. While each of us has a different agenda, there tends to be a common thread in our individual ways of going about it. We're not on holiday. We're not tourists. While we are on the road, we're living our whole life in our motorhomes. Some days we may do nothing just as we did when we lived in a house. When we find ourselves in a place, we don't have to see everything.
We generally assume we will be coming back, however far it is from anywhere else.
Rather than visiting different places, we are living wherever we happen to be at the time. We have conciously given up our previous lifestyle hoping for, and expecting, a different kind of life experience. Deadlines are to be avoided as far as possible. Decisions about staying or going, about which direction to head, about how fast we want to go, can be made each day.
Obviously, we still have family connections and friends, some of us have houses or even businesses to worry about, but the lifestyle is about living for the day. |
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Bribie Beachcombers. |
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Dalrymple Drifters.
In mid 2005 a number of motor homers, the majority of whom were Chapter Members from the Island Wanderers Chapter, discussed the matter of establishing another Chapter predominately based around the Tamar Valley area in mid Northern Tasmania. The Island Wanderers is a rather large Chapter and has a State wide area and as such rally from North to South & West to East within the State.
With the blessing and support of the Island Wanderers they proceeded and enlisted a number of other motor homers all whom had not been involved in the Chapter previously. |
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Murray Darlings.
Both the Murray and Darling Rivers traverse our region of Sunraysia. It was at the closing ceremony of the Townsville Rally on that same day, 6th June 1999 that the announcement was made, that the 49th Chapter of the CMCA was formed.
We try to vary our choice of weekend venues with most being bush camps on the river with the occasional caravan park being used when the weather is inclement. We involve ourselves with a wide range of activities, including group bush walks, disc bowls, fishing swimming and of course games and much discussion around the obligatory camp fire
Our ‘Murray Darlings’ will continue to be pro-active in all motorhome activities and rallies. We are eager to welcome new and older members to our many and varied functions, but still like to have “more fun with a minimum of serious business”. So laugh with us and live longer. |
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Tropical Coast Wanderers.
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Members Links.
Many of our members have businesses or skills that can benefit our membership base.
Please support those listed below, as I'm sure your requirements will be provided with blah blah blah.
If you are a member and have goods, services or skills that you would like to offer our member base, please don't hesitate to contact the editor via our contact page.
Dadd Plumbing
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John Dadd, vice-president and member since blah blah, has a plumbing business specialising in blah blah.. |
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Surge Computing |
George McKay has been selling computers and technology since 1983. Now he has spread specialised into Technology for Campers, with a wide range of Inverters, Chargers, Solar Panels and other RV related products at www.shop.surge.com.au.
George has also creates 'cheap and cheerful' websites. |
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New Life Roofing and Safety Guard Rails |
Hal has been in the roof restoration business for many years and, as a side-line, has expanded into the private hire of roof safety guard rails. |
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Around-Oz Websites |
Chrissy & Bob Eustace |
Interesting Links.
There are plenty of interesting websites out there. If you find one that is of particular interest to us Bushwackers, please don't hesitate to contact the editor via our contact page.
The following are a sample of the more interesting pages to be found.
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Bush Camping |
ParkWeb Victoria - State Fortests, National Parks etc. Download factsheets and info on camping.
Bushfire & Seasonal Road Closures - Parks Victoria
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Maps |
Google Maps - Show maps, satelite photos or get directions.
Street-directory - Show detailed maps, zoom in for more detail, get directions.
Geoscience Australia - Government mapping site.
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Gold Prospecting |
Geoscience Australia - map of Australian Gold areas.
Yackandandah Gold Map - Yackandandah was a very industrious gold mining area from the 1850's right up until 1904. The large lake at Allans Flat was created by barge gold mining. The first Gold found was at the junction of Commissioners Creek and the Yackandandah Creek. This site is located in the Yackandandah Caravan Park.
You may still successfully pan for Gold in some creeks around Yackandandah.
MSN Alluvial Gold Forum - Lots of questions and answers.
TreasureFish - American site full of info on how to find gold.
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Gadgets |
Deal Extreme - thousands of gadgets and boys toys, free freight. |
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Fishing |
Ausfish - Australian Fishing Forum - lots of links to important fishing information.
Fishnet - the largest and most comprehensive recreational sportsfishing information resource in Australia.
FishSA - a comprehensive fishing site dedicated to the fishing enthusiast.
MarineNews - fishing spots around the Australian coastline with GPS co-ordinates and lots of other fishing info.
Rex Hunt - A site chokka full of fishing tips and tide information.
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