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General => Introductions => Topic started by: Nomad on June 08, 2011, 12:46:06 PM

Title: New to the CT.............................
Post by: Nomad on June 08, 2011, 12:46:06 PM

Hey Everyone,

I found this great forum whilst I was looking for some information about CT's.

I liked it so much that I thought I would join up and hopefully contribute something useful back.

My story is that I have a young family, kids being 3 and 5, and we have really enjoyed camping with them, even my wife.

I got sick of towing the old crap box trailer full of stuff around and decided to fork out for a fairly budget camper to see if we would enjoy it.

The CT is great its so easy to deal with and its made camping even more enjoyable.

So far we have taken it to South West Rocks, Cotton Tree, Noosa North Shore, Fraser and are heading to Agnes next week.

As you can see from where we've been were a fairly dedicated beach/surfing/fishing family.

If anyone wants to know anything about camping on the Sunny Coast we are always happy to try and help.

Cheers  :cheers:

Title: Re: New to the CT.............................
Post by: GGV8Cruza on June 08, 2011, 12:51:43 PM

Welcome to MySwag Nomad, sounds like you have the bug. What sort of trailer did you get and what gets it to the beach?? Enjoy your stay

GG

Title: Re: New to the CT.............................
Post by: Nomad on June 08, 2011, 01:00:47 PM

Hi GG,

Thanks for your welcome. We are on our third Prado (03, 06 & now an 09). I bought a market direct camper from Brissy after looking at a heap of overpriced second hand ones. I know they're Chinese but with some help from my mates we have wired it for 12v and 240 volt and improved all the welds and fully rust proofed the thing to make it more beach friendly and added tool boxes and stuff. So I hope to get 5 years out of it.

Cheers Nomad.

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Post by: Gunna Do on June 08, 2011, 01:03:02 PM

Welcome to Myswag.

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Post by: D4D on June 08, 2011, 01:17:34 PM

Welcome to myswag Nomad, sounds like you are making good use of your camper.

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Post by: Bird on June 08, 2011, 01:18:58 PM

Welcome.

So wheres the photos of your setup :)

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Post by: BigJules on June 08, 2011, 01:27:42 PM

G'day & Welcome.

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Post by: gunna on June 08, 2011, 01:52:37 PM

Welcome to myswag
 :cheers: sheeds

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Post by: waz65 on June 08, 2011, 04:39:41 PM

Welcome Nomad , heaps of info here , enjoy your travels

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Post by: Nomad on June 08, 2011, 05:30:20 PM

Thanks everyone for the welcome. I'll get some photos up from our agnes trip Lost

Cheers

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Post by: gibbo301 on June 08, 2011, 06:08:22 PM

Hi Nomad Welcome to My Swag Agnes next week lucky bugger  ;D ;D

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Post by: Heiny on June 08, 2011, 08:01:50 PM

Hi Nomad and welcome to My Swag :cheers:

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Post by: way-t-go on June 08, 2011, 08:16:49 PM

Nomad, welcome to My Swag, you've certainly been out and about. Have you been lucky enough to dodge the wet weekends?
Gary

Title: Re: New to the CT.............................
Post by: Nomad on June 08, 2011, 08:23:05 PM

Hi Gary,

The only time we really got caught was on the way back from SW Rocks in January. Just before all the flooding mayhem began. We did have to drive through a fair bit of water around Coffs getting home but other than that all good. Lately its been really good to go bush camping and have some great fires.

Cheers

Nomad

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Post by: rushby on June 08, 2011, 08:44:28 PM

Welcome Nomad. glad your using your CT i drive around alot seeing many just sitting around doing nothing and i think dam why bother getting one to start with. we have only owned ours around 3mths and its travelled around 2500kms and cant wait to mod it more and go see some more sites. glenbawn and nambucca are penciled in and who knows from there

Title: Re: New to the CT.............................
Post by: Ebo on June 08, 2011, 09:05:59 PM

Hi Nomad
a mate of mine has a market direct camper for the last 2 years and he has had no problems at all and is still in as new condition, and he has done a fair amount of camping.  i am intrested in a report and photos from agnes when you get back.  happy travels :cheers:

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Post by: Old Croc + plus one on June 09, 2011, 08:53:13 AM

Hi Nomad
Welcome to My Swag

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Post by: flamingo on June 09, 2011, 05:01:51 PM

Hi Nomad  Welcome to myswag!! enjoy your time here.. :cheers: Phil

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Post by: squirell on June 10, 2011, 05:14:20 AM

Hi and welcome, pics and trip reports, they love 'em around here, enjoy your stay here.

     Squirell/Graeme