My weekend (photos)
 

Well, this was my weekend, what was yours like?

Went 4x4'ing in the Ranger
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...113285.520.390
My neighbour and a few other friends came along too (29 vehicles and 75 people in total).
The neighbours mean Range Rover (powered by a blown 5.2l Rover V8)
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Unfortunately (as is the case in Australia) the vehicles were predominately Nissans and Yota's, with a couple of Land Rovers.
There was one other Ford (also a Ranger), oh and a Ford Maverick - essentially a rebadged Nissan Patrol.

Some of the vehicles as we arrived at the campsite:
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Aformentioned Ford Maverick in front (aka A Nissan Patrol)
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And the trusty little Ranger
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The Terrain we encountered wasn't overly difficult:
(A Nissan Navara)
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(A Land Rover Discovery climbing up to the right - vehicle in Front of us, driven by a character called Alvie, he has to be the only person in the world that wheels a Hoodini)
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Now you saw the trailer the Ranger was towing in the first pic...
:-X03

What else to you do when you are in the middle of nowhere???

Carry an industrial sized bovine cooking machine :-fire
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...113120.520.390
In action:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...113279.520.390

And create big fires!!!
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We got stopped a couple of times by fuel pump issues on a diesel Series 1 Discovery


The vehicle in question (with lots of manly blokes surrounding it attempting to fix aforementioned problem)
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Here we are, all banked up waiting for the Discovery:
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Here we are all, at lunch - had great weather for the trip:
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Now the scenery almost makes the beer drinking, meat eating, fireworks and general ruckus worthwhile ;)
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In case you couldn't guess, we were in the middle of nowhere - not a house for 50 miles

Then home :(

Was a whole lot of fun.
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My kind of fun. That bovine cooking machine looks like it belongs in the Pacific Nwst. :-D Great pics- thanks!

Out of curiosity, where were you at down there? That red soil on the road caught my attention; I remember that stuff when I was there.

The Alpine National Park in Victoria.
Here is a quick map - the red "splodge" in the bottom right corner is about where we camped, and from there we drove over a number of trails in the park.

For a point of reference, Benalla is about 160miles North East of Melbourne.

Please oh please post more pics of that cooker! Being a fabricator I've just got to build one:-D

FABMANDELUX.:-X25 :-fire

What beautiful scenery! Oh and what a super cool bovine/swine cooking machine, that is DA BOMB! Looks like you all had a blast!
Cheers!

Very nice, does have a PNW feel to it.

Check your e-mail, I sent you the best quality pics I have of it ;)

Now that looks and sounds like my kinda country dang I need to find the time, and money to make a trip down that way.