Time to Roam Magazine Issue 4 - August/September 2013 | Page 9

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Can’t wait for time to Roam
Warm welcome at The
Grampians
My wife and I are ex residents of Beechwood
(Koree Island) and still have a villa in Wauchope
but we have been on the road for two years
and three months. We were recently staying in
Port Macquarie at the Melaleuca Caravan Park
where we picked up Time to Roam and saw
all the Kombis. I thought you might like this
photo of a Kombi tent we saw at the Top Tourist
Lakeside park at Halls Gap in May. The other
photos are of ourselves taken at The Pinnacle
in The Grampians. We highly recommend this
van park run by a young couple. One features of
the park was the wood fired heater for the pool.
The pool temperature was 32 degrees celcius
and the air temp was eight degrees outside.
We will be enjoying Port for a few more weeks
before heading north to Rockhampton, then
returning back south in November.
Graham and Rosslyn Ward,
Port Macquarie NSW

Time to Roam would have to be one of the most entertaining travel mags that
I have read, and I really look forward to each issue arriving. I even print off a
copy from the website prior to my hard copy arriving! The four caravan parks
I look after are distributors and there is often many a heated discussion –
without the benefit of a campfire, over various articles.
Queensland at this time of the year, although cool, has beautiful sunny days
and the ‘Southerners’ or ‘Winteries’ arrive from the Southern cold states to
enjoy both the weather and the hospitality. From July through to September
the majestic humpback whales comes to play in the calm waters off Hervey
Bay and tourists flock to the parks to enjoy it all.
I will unfortunately be leaving this job soon and hooking up my own little van
and heading off to places unseen and yet to be discovered. (Sounds poetical
doesn’t it and I’m not sure there are many of these places left in Australia!)
I have personally join