Thread: Bad camping ethics

Some of the worst experiences of my life have been when we've been on the road and just dropped into caravan parks for the night for convenience. Number one was on a Friday night at Ballarat a few yeras back: blockheads from melbourne arrived and spent til 3 or 4am drinking xsivelly, shouting, playing doof doof music etc etc. Idiots - white trash. The other bad experience was at Warnambool about 30 years ago. I've never before see so many dropkicks who take along their televisions and radios when they go fishing. They just sat them up in their car boots and played them full blast - probably watching the Australian open or like...

Try to camp where no one else is located. Best to avoid public holiday weekends - brings out the loonies from the burbs.

Originally Posted by weeds

for the last 6 easters nothing better than going to our friends cattle property......2000 acres to ourselfs

1 and bit hours drive from brisbane
no camping fees
dogs allowed
unlimited wood for fires and building structures
spring fed creek
backs onto lake maroon
a few trackes to drive on
a great hill for watching sunsets over the border ranges
unlimited milk
and the list goes on

did i mention no body else but invited friends

Ahhh the serenity!

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Ahhh the serenity!

yup.....except when we fire up the chainsaws although there was no sun over easter so one of the guys fired up his gennie to top his batteries, he did have a long lead and placed the gennie in the creek bed......good thing was we didn't annoy any other groups

Have been camping up the coast north of Forster for the past 15 years and got used to the crowds at Xmas. Have had no problems until two years ago when some mob turned up and decided that the other 200 people in the adjacent two sq kilometre area coud sit up all night and listen to their music bad jokes, swearing and wives having a fight about who was shagging who's husband.

I made a polite request to go to sleep at about 3am and was met at the door of my tent witha bloke holding a hammer wanting to argue the point.

Next morning myself and ten other persons spoke to the people in charge and they got their marching orders.

Great thing is my young bloke finishes Year 12 this year so we will go up there after the school holidays when you can fire a gun and not hit a soul.

I often wonder what it is about some people who could not give a tinkers cuss for anyone else but themselves. I cringe when I make a noise or do things to disturb others. This mob and their like minded counterparts should be given their own camping sites about 15 klms off the coast on a badly leaking barge!!!

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

I object to large club/family groups that monopolise facilities. By this I mean those who send along an advance party to take over the areas like tables and fireplaces by placing iceboxes and baskets on the tables in advance of the main party, and lagering vehicles around the fireplaces and tables. These groups are usually rowdy and late-to-bedders. Also these groups commonly have undisciplined children and dogs, both of which run amok, and should be considered outside the protection of law.

hate to say it but our group is normally a large group
with plenty of kids and dogs..............

but none of them run riot or are undisciplined

but believe me i've seen some horrors out there

The ones I hate the worst are the ones that are drunk as and come into your camp uninvited for a friendly dribble while you are sitting around the camp fire
cheers
blaze

You know, all these stories of unhappy camping experiences remind me why I got a 4wd.

The easiest solution is to "head on up the road"

I had a d***head driving golf balls over our camp recently. I never noticed until he drove one straight into the side of my Dad's newly restored troopy as i was walking past it! Missed my head by about 6 inches and left a big dent in a very strong part of the panel between the side window and gutter. Neadless to say i had a big go at the coward (i found him hiding in his cabin) but would've had a bigger go if my mates weren't holding me back!

The next morning i went fishing in the adjacent river and noticed golf balls everywhere in the water! For the golf balls to land in that part of the water he must have been hitting them immediately behind our camp below head level!