Thread: campfire etiquette

Mongrel vandals indeed, burning someone's axe is dim witted.

A good reason to make sure the fire is out or at least little more than a smoulder (so it doesn't look warm enough to want to sit around) before going to bed though.

Plicks, and no throwing bottles in the fire is not right.

Reminds me of a time when we had permission to enter a closed National Park in Qld to try to follow an old Cobb & Co route. Our first camp site in the National Park, one party in the group (good friends invited on the trip) left tinnies and bottles over broken off branches in a small tree. (We new we were in for problems because my wife and I were already cleaning up their camp sites when we packed up). My response went something along the lines of 'we don't want brain dead idiots travelling with us and could they please pack up and go your own way'.

Strange that I haven't heard from them for 10-12 years.

Rick

A lot of the time when these things happen I just think, why.

I like to camp up at Lake Eucumbene (not for the softy in winter!) We see it all the time, bottles and tins in camp fires. when we leave, we invariably end up taking other peoples crap home with us. Hopefully going up next weekend for a couple of nights, myself the older stepson and a mate or two. Hope those blarry trout are in eating mood. Its been useless the last 2 trips, the water has been too warm I think?

What a bunch of absolute bastards. It are these disgusting grubs that wreck it for the rest of us. They would have been better off throwing the bottles and axe at each other

I was expecting something more controversial. Somewhere where people discuss which way is best. But this is not about etiquette at all!!! It's about breaking clear rules! Bunch of jerks. It disheartens me every time I see vandalism in National Parks. Last year I saw what looked like a brand new picnic table that had been installed by Parks Vic and was all smashed up with a note from Parks on it saying it would be years before they had funding to rebuild the table and other destroyed items in the area. It had a phone number for anyone with information, but it seems unlikely they would have caught them. A case of a few bad eggs ruining it for everyone else IMO.

that is terrible! they are obviously disrespectful people just in life! they clearly knew that axe was not theirs so why the heck damage it! and you can tell it is new! so rude. people are so rude! and throwing glass on the fire! just stupid!