Long Weekend Getaway...

[GTR_STEALTH]

Well its coming upto a long weekend, and i wanna go away somewhere but im stumped for ideas. Im sick of the typical places like Philip Island, GOR, Lorne, etc, and was just wondering if anyone has any ideas on something a lil different? Nothing tooo expensive tho...

Anyone else going away?

[evade]

Lakes entrance?

im staying local. Big day out and booze booze booze prior to that

[Bec]

LOL - i was gunna suggest Lakes Entrance as well.

Im gunna be 2 hours past Lakes Entrance having an absolute ball

[CrispyFries]

Grampians?

[stolen_s15]

Any of the ski resorts are really nice and cheap this time of year, if youn like going on long walks and what not.

[paulr33]

go 4wd'ing & camping out past licola

[CrispyFries]

Any of the ski resorts are really nice and cheap this time of year, if youn like going on long walks and what not.

Falls creek and Mt Buffalo will have crazy bike riders on them this weekend doing the alpine classic, could be fun to watch... maybe

[NickR33]

I just spent a week in Merimbula (about 2.5 hours past Lakes Entrance) and it was awesome! we rented a holiday house with a few friends on the beach... just cooked bbq and drank beer all week... definately good going southern NSW coast, bit of a change from the usual GOR etc... however it takes pretty much the whole day to get there, plus another to get back so not really long weekend material

O/T: was overcast one day too so me and a mate went into the local toy store, bought a Tamiya RC car and spent the rest of the day building it and drinking beer... only to find the next day that we had missed a bunch of stuff and had to rebuild half of it... this time sober haha

go the Frog, 1980's are back!

[R31Nismoid]

Grampians is a good place.

Bit of hiking action, great views

[DogKnight]

The whole area around lake king is great. Lakes Entrance, Metung, Loch Sport, Paynesville, Raymond Island, Bairnsdale. Quite a few things to see and some good beaches. Nice laid back area and if you enjoy fishing its perfect. Bout 3-4 hour drive from melbourne for most of those places, so you can even head up on a friday night after work.

[Bec]

however it takes pretty much the whole day to get there, plus another to get back so not really long weekend material

Teh trick is to leave at 4am, that way you've arrived by 9-10am and have the whole day to sleep on the beach

Plus, you miss all the traffic

[NickR33]

yeah I know Bec... I'm just not a morning person:/

[evade]

yeah good old lakes! merimbula is good too

omg I had a frog..thats awesome..how much was it?

[NickR33]

umm $300 If I remember correctly... came with servos, battery and all that junk... they have just re-released it, I never had a Frog but a mate did and a Grasshopper... ahhh memories

[saff_cossie]

My mate had the grasshopper and I had the grasshopper II. His one came in the nasty yellow colour while mine was white but repainted (poorly) by me to deep blue.

I have an old Tamiya magazine here from the 80's, should put it on ebay!

Sorry not really long weekend ideas though

[HIZOKU]

if you want a good offroad buggy get the DF03

they can put up with a beating lots of aftermarket support me and friends use to go skate bowls and flip them and do tricks with them got vid some where

none the less good things this weekend

mt baw baw

kinglake

GOR

[jake33]

im going to Kiss My Grass Saturady and not making it home till Monday sort of a weekend getaway from home at least.

Edited January 23, 2008 by jake33