Thread: Scarey camping

When I went to uni there was a forestry field trip (that I wasn't on) and they stumbled upon a crop. Luckily one of the guys on the trip was ex SAS and spotted a man trap. They got out of there quick smart!

Having grown up in the area around Lithgow and Kandos, I have heard many stories of people stumbling onto drug plots.

We have found evidence in the past of plots and camps around our farm in the Wolgan Valley. Even once found a camp in the bush and could recognise timber that they had used to make a chair as coming from around our sheds! Makes you feel pretty spooked and wanting to tiptoe out of there quick smart. You can almost feel the sights being lined up on the back of your head! The Wolgan Valley (and similar areas) have always been popular, being a suitable distance from Sydney and being warmer by being lower in elevation than the surrounding mountains.

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

Having grown up in the area around Lithgow and Kandos, I have heard many stories of people stumbling onto drug plots.

We have found evidence in the past of plots and camps around our farm in the Wolgan Valley. Even once found a camp in the bush and could recognise timber that they had used to make a chair as coming from around our sheds! Makes you feel pretty spooked and wanting to tiptoe out of there quick smart. You can almost feel the sights being lined up on the back of your head! The Wolgan Valley (and similar areas) have always been popular, being a suitable distance from Sydney and being warmer by being lower in elevation than the surrounding mountains.

I can relate to the sights thing, as when i saw the guy, (1 1/2 seconds worth), i did a 90 degree turn, headed upstream, fully expecting a loud, "HEY YOU", or similar, and i had an itchy patch between my shoulders, although i suspect it was my imagination. I got the hell out of there!!

Yeah - that's a bad thing. Glad you got out of there without incident.

What did the police say?

Originally Posted by spudboy

Yeah - that's a bad thing. Glad you got out of there without incident.

What did the police say?

<Draaaw> WOW man this is good stuff... hehe

Living in an area which is heavily timbered and rather difficult of access, this sort of story is familiar. About twenty years ago a property ten kilometres from here was raided - the proprietor spent about the next year in Long Bay, but was then a beneficiary of NSW's "Minister for Early Release". According to local gossip he was given the property by his in-laws from Griffith on the basis that he raised one crop and if he got caught it was all his own idea. He is still there, apparently going straight.

Then there is the property four north of here - recently changed hands, but has for the last ten years been a problem for the fire brigade - the house is believed to be booby trapped, and the owner is difficult to contact as a guest of Her Majesty. Again, according to local gossip, his father gave him the place to "get him out of the scene he was in" in Sydney - apparently unsuccessfully.

John

Speaking of difficulties of access, i woke up this morning with a smile on my dial because i must have been thinking about over night, while asleep, and with my wicked sence of humour, i couldn,t help but laugh,
When i bugged out, yesterday, and by the time i got back on to the main road, i was starting to think, "Why should i cut my camping trip short because of this idiot and his actions, so when i crossed the bridge, i turned into the area most used by people for camping and having a break from driving, and there was parked a vehicle.. By this time, my personal radar was on high alert, and for some reason, this vehicle raised suspisions, so i took down its details and gave them to plod, as well
If this was the vehicle ,(and i say IF), driven by a certain individual, then he had walked about 2 1/2 klms down stream to his site, to do his thing, and i had driven the same distance,on the other side of the creek, merely walking across the river bed. I can,t help but laugh, what a dork!

lucky you 'high' tailed it out of there, if he caught you, you could have been 'stoned'!