Campers Road Trips

**Valencia** · 05-09-2017, 09:31 PM

That would be over due for a service by now ?

**Camper** · 06-09-2017, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by Valencia

That would be over due for a service by now ?

Has had a 15, 000K service, next at 30, 000 and every 15, 000 after, capped at $240 for life

**wbute** · 06-09-2017, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Camper

Has had a 15, 000K service, next at 30, 000 and every 15, 000 after, capped at $240 for life

15000? Wow. They stretch them further and further. The amount of K's your doing it is probably ok. Imagine doing 15K around town over a year though! It's not going to end well no matter what the marketing gurus say.

**Valencia** · 06-09-2017, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by wbute

15000? Wow. They stretch them further and further. The amount of K's your doing it is probably ok. Imagine doing 15K around town over a year though! It's not going to end well no matter what the marketing gurus say.

Each to there own but with the LS3 engine in my SS ute my mechanic dropped my oil and filter at 2000 km from new then again at 10000km and i will keep changing it every 10000 km anal maybe but i know these engines like clean oil and i run Penrite fully synthetic oil expensive at $200 for 20 litres but i intend to keep this ute for a long long time
I wouldnt trust a dealer with my cars ever

**Kiwivan** · 06-09-2017, 07:22 PM

Our old girl we get 7.5ks to the litre
Or in my old speak just over 21 miles to the old gallon.
Quite happy with how she runs.
And as you say we also make up for it with cheap accommodation

Cheers Kiwivan

**Camper** · 06-09-2017, 08:02 PM

Next morning and I had to hang around til the caravan park office opened to get my $10 toilet block key deposit back, then it was up into the hills heading to Protester falls.

I got sidetracked and ended up wandering all over the mountain range

Looking back down over the Nimbin valley

I couldn't figure out how to get across the valley and into this area with the big sandstone cliffs - seems the locals have brought a lot of the land to keep the farmers out, I also couldn't get into Tuntable Falls.

Not much to say on the roads, but the views were nice

This little creek crossing had me enchanted

The forest closed in as I got closer to the falls

The creek crossings became magical

The walk to the falls is beautiful

Some big trees and really impressive sized palms, I have not seen their like before

There are 2 smaller sets of falls before the main one

You can just the path top left, it follows the creek along the bottom of a valley towards the falls

**Camper** · 06-09-2017, 08:27 PM

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I sat and took a few shots of the next set of falls, just beautiful

And finally to the main falls, I couldn't really get all of the falls properly into 1 picture so these don't really do it justice but there are plenty of others online if you are interested.

The story of Protester Falls is kinda cool, it was the first time people physically barred loggers from entering a forest in Australia and saved the habitat - not least for people like me to visit 30 years later, I give thanks to those that were there.

More Info - https://www.northernstar.com.au/news...-creek/275633/

There is a sneaky little turtle living under these rocks that seemed to know exactly when I was going to take a photo.

**Camper** · 06-09-2017, 09:07 PM

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I left in a bit of a haze and didn't really plan the next bit, still didn't know where I was going to stay that night, jumped in the car and went wandering.

The country opened up again, more houses started to appear

How tight are those tree's, Imagine the forest that was here way back

Saw a sign for Rocky Creek Dam and followed it

Promising car park

You know I love a park bench with a water view, lots of native birds around too, even 4G phone reception - wished I could camp here, but no

Arty shot

I sat here while deciding where to camp that night, discovered that I could not have a fire in the local national parks and booked a private campground back north on Mt Tambourine, which meant at least 2hrs drive

Decent size dam with none of the dead tree's I've come to associate with a country dam, there are a couple of walks around the dam

Apparently some Platypus in one section, no luck for me though

Would be a top spot to bring a group, showers and toilets available

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Originally Posted by wbute

15000? Wow. They stretch them further and further. The amount of K's your doing it is probably ok. Imagine doing 15K around town over a year though! It's not going to end well no matter what the marketing gurus say.

Either 15,000 or 9 months is the log book service, I have mechanics in the family who are working on these new utes and reckon it should be good, especially as you say most of mine is cruising speed.