Thread: Bad camping ethics

Originally Posted by weeds

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

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did i mention no body else but invited friends

Waddabout Daisy, and Buttercup and Bluebelle and ... etc so not all to hoofselfs!

And all the bleating, and mooing .....

Originally Posted by 29dinosaur

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.

Avoid caravan parks that have a high proportion of permanent residents. Caravan park permanents tend to be of the feral unwashed tribes. Not all, of course, but a goodly proportion.

I sugest you go somewhere where none else goes





Mrs ho har

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Sounds like the Louth Races Chenz There's camping and there's camping eh?

You go to Louth races expecting it to be a sh*tfight and prepare accordingly - earplugs and get as full as the rest of them but in a bush camp or caravan park with heaps of other campers just a bit of common everyday do unto others courtesy is not too much to ask.

When we want to go wild and have movies and loud music we go out 35 klms away from the rest of society in the middle of the colo wilderness not 100 metres up the road from family Fred having a weekend away with er indoors and the youngens.

This topic raises a few issues that occur to me regularly. I went to primary school in the Kimberley for a little while and we used to go visiting family there whenever we could as kids. When I grew up and left home I started going up there myself and used to have great experiences. Now though, it's getting really hard to find a place for just your mob.

Case in point is Palm Springs on the Duncan Hwy. I used to camp and swim there and see one car a day. Last time I camped there there were 4 other groups and now I've heard you're not allowed to swim there anymore.

This kind of change gives me the sh*ts but I'm not sure if that's fair. It's beautiful country, and what right do I have to get sh*tty when other people are there for the same reasons?

What ideas do you all have about keeping some places close to your chest and recommend other places to people?

Originally Posted by Poida4x4

This topic raises a few issues that occur to me regularly. I went to primary school in the Kimberley for a little while and we used to go visiting family there whenever we could as kids. When I grew up and left home I started going up there myself and used to have great experiences. Now though, it's getting really hard to find a place for just your mob.

Case in point is Palm Springs on the Duncan Hwy. I used to camp and swim there and see one car a day. Last time I camped there there were 4 other groups and now I've heard you're not allowed to swim there anymore.

This kind of change gives me the sh*ts but I'm not sure if that's fair. It's beautiful country, and what right do I have to get sh*tty when other people are there for the same reasons?

What ideas do you all have about keeping some places close to your chest and recommend other places to people?

Keeping a camp site to yourself is all good and well, but as it often happens, the more a site is used or accessed, the more it becomes degraded simply by people going there. I would have liked to have camped at my original destination, because it would have kept environment changes configned to an area already subject to human intervention, caused by camping practices. I,d like to think that a more important aspect of camping is,, What are you doing/What can i do, to minimise your impact on a great site?
The next time i go back to that great easter camp site, i hope to have enough of the right camping gear to not need to use any fire wood, for starters. Bad camping ethics is not only the social behaviour of campers, but their camping impact on the site.
Laurie

Originally Posted by The ho har's

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Mrs ho har

yhea .....what a show off......lol....

cheers

Over Xmas/New Year we took camper trailer to a quiet campground at Noosa (not telling where). We had booked & setup in an area well away from main group that were near amenities block. Just when we were starting to relax with cold drink in hand, a group of eight vehicles & two camper vans pulls up all around us. One of the men could see the astonishment on my face & approached me asking if it was OK to camp here. I told him definitely not, but had no objection to them setting up at least 5 metres away. He said he couldn't do this as camper vans were not allowed in that area, and ranger had given them permission to camp where we were. I told them were were not happy but they just continued to move in and set up camp.
We had no option but to move camp
We were glad we did as they carried on with loud music & generators every night. They were some religious group & Christian rock is not our favourite music!
I was considering purchase of a generator before this episode, but the noise & fumes have really put us off. We go away for peace & quiet & mostly in National Parks, so I think solar is the only option until fuel cells come down in price.