First Frosts - Start of Terrorist Season

They are not all bad. Camped in a caravan park once while fixing a problem with the Landy. Had lunch in the nearby pub, then went back to the tent when some heavy rain started. Arrived back to find our tent covered in ropes and all the gear we had left outside gone - i didn't know what the hell was going on. Turns out a mini tornado ripped through the area. Grey nomads from 3 nearby vans came out in the storm to rope down our lifting tent fly, and packed away all our gear.

Another trip, another crazy storm - sleeping in the 110 because i was worried about falling gumtree limbs. Grey nomad from nearby van came over to tell me he had made a bed in his caravan for us to use if we wished. Came over in the morning with morning tea for us.

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Originally Posted by rick130

WTF is it with some humans that makes them want to do that???
We're away from it all for a reason!!

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Hi,
European back packers!
Why?
They must live like tinned sardines!

We were camped in a layby just south of Leigh Creek, when a few backpackers stopped and asked if it was ok to camp there.
I said sure, waving an arm in the general direction of the rest of the area capable of parking quite a few road trains and went back to futzing on the computer.
Later I went out and found they were just about under our awning!
To add to the Grrrrrr factor, being teenagers of mixed gender and nationalities and having only just met for this trip up the Oodnadatta Track, drank and chattered till the wee hours.
Grrrr!

Human nature.

Rec fishers with a tinny will make a bee line for any boat they can see after launching in the half light of morning. Anchor right alongside.

Same with surfers that have a choice of breaks from a cliff top view. Nearly all will go to where someone is already in the water and sit right alongside.

Carparks are the same.

DL

I suggest that most would be on fixed incomes & need to watch what they can spend & their trip away may in fact be their last. Who knows?

Don't be too hasty to judge, it may be you one day & down on the bones of your arse to survive.

Just sayin'.

I dont know what age group you guys are who are making derogatory comments, but as I said previously I have been offered breakfast, morning tea , take aways from many of these 'grey ghosts'.

I have joined in their evening circle and to their delight cracked out the guitar and had a sing a long and they load me free beer while doing so.

They are never on the roads at night trying to show you how good their bloody great new led road blaster lights are and if they are they dip very early.

They are always happy and they appear to clean up after themselves in the ablution blocks.

I have never seen them leave their campsite with scattered rubbish and a fire still smouldering.

Do you get the idea fellas?

I think you are being grossly unkind to the better of our fellow road users.

And their dollars keep alive many businesses in rural areas which might otherwise close for lack of customers.

We are grey nomads for a few months every year (Winter) and we dont trash the bush nor do we whinge and moan, We also spent about $70,000 last year in the Pilbera. Kimberlies and the Gulf on accomodation, meals, stores, bait and fuel along the way.
We do come across the odd useless bastard that insists of partying all night with the music blaring and those that like to crap wherever they like But most of these people were under 30[bigwhistle]

Hi,
I've seen the grey grannies mobilise the campsite and clean the bbq and tables after the locals trashed the place on a Saturday night.
Cheers

They/we were brought up with different standards. Simples. Sounds like a fair bit of tolerance is due here.

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I dont know what age group you guys are who are making derogatory comments, but as I said previously I have been offered breakfast, morning tea , take aways from many of these 'grey ghosts'.

I have joined in their evening circle and to their delight cracked out the guitar and had a sing a long and they load me free beer while doing so.

They are never on the roads at night trying to show you how good their bloody great new led road blaster lights are and if they are they dip very early.

They are always happy and they appear to clean up after themselves in the ablution blocks.

I have never seen them leave their campsite with scattered rubbish and a fire still smouldering.

Do you get the idea fellas?

I think you are being grossly unkind to the better of our fellow road users.

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

We always reckoned that Anzac Day or shortly after was the first frosts in the rust belt and cold states. First frosts caused the grey ghosts to hook up their mobile road blocks and hit the highways to the sun. We old school line haul truckies called them "the terrorists" as a play on "tourists" and reflecting the low esteem in which they were held.

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By whom?