It feels wonderfully strange living in The Silvery Nomad

The Silvery Nomad gets a lot of attention

It feels wonderfully strange to wake up in the morning at the edge of a lake

Roy is not quite up to swimming in the heated pool yet after his op, as you can see, but it didn't stop me! Delicious.

It's so easy to set up camp and also to pack away for a bit of sightseeing or a quick trip into a town (Forster) for shopping.

Roy remarked that "it still feels strange living and sleeping in our Silvery Nomad, but only in the same way that waking up in a boat cabin on the Nile feels strange.  Wonderfully strange."

But strange is what we have chosen. If it felt normal, it wouldn't be such fun or stimulating to the mind and the senses.

So quick and easy to set up or pack away for sightseeing or a trip to town

We are 'over' normal everyday living.

Normal everyday living really means every day is pretty much the same.

That's not to say we lack normal creature comforts.

A read-made double bed that winds down automatically at night at the push of a button.

We actually sleep on top. You can still sit below and watch TV with the bed down.

We have a lovely club lounge to relax in. A shady verandah under our wind-out awning where we can sit and enjoy a G&T.  

We have everything that opens and shuts here.

The club lounge. Members only.

Also a heated pool. Lakeside barbecues. Fishing spots just metres away. Perfect TV reception in our van... we brought videos along to watch, but we haven't been bored enough to watch them yet.

Even a bar - very seventies retro

The Merc Diversion gets a lot of attention. A group of about 15 Probus members, partying at a lakeside barbecue nearby, were having bets the other night on how much our Winnebago Diversion costs - with bets ranging from $80,000 to $200,000!


Finally, one of them couldn't resist coming over the next morning to settle the bet.  

The bottom range was a bit low and the top range a bit high, so nobody won the bet!