It's true that life under canvas isn't what it used to be: roll up your swag, hook a billy to your belt and go. Now people bring shower tents, gas cookers, solar panels and even paella pans.
And Santa, we are just lovin it with all the mod cons. But you have hurt my generators feelings . But he will get over it and rev up again tomorrow
Dougwe said
03:19 PM Jan 17, 2017
Gene is in the back of the collie crying
hako said
05:40 PM Jan 17, 2017
A few times a year I'll take a son/daughter or some grandkids camping with just a tent, billy and some tins of steak and veg and maybe some camp pie. Generally it is where the mobile reception is missing so they then discover the basics. Fire is the all time favourite.
Good Luck.
Desert Dweller said
06:45 PM Jan 17, 2017
We don't want this thread deGENERATING into the usual bun fight do we?
Santa - we don't have a generator. For those who do - they don't bother me at night - I just take the hearing aids out when I go to bed, don't hear a thing. (Sometimes a good thing, sometimes not).
Our first "camping trip" after we were married was with a Mazda wagon and 3 man tent (the triangle shape with fly), one of those small round BBQs, a small gas bottle, air mattresses, sleeping bags and food in a box in the back of the car. Lived in SA then and went up through the center.
dazz49 said
11:41 PM Jan 17, 2017
Santa wants to try living on a cattle station where the big generator runs day in day out. Its like living next to a train line. After a few weeks " What train "
dazz49 said
11:48 PM Jan 17, 2017
Or try sleeping in a swag in the middle of the Simpson and a dingo lets odd a howl 5 feet from yours, or stop in Coober Pedy and the locals let off a stick of gelignite, at 2.00am 3.00am and 4.00am and every dog for 20 mile goes into a barking frenzy. You would be pleased to hear the soothing hum of a Honda genny lulling you off to sleep.
HunnyBunny said
11:59 AM Jan 18, 2017
Well Santa my days of cooking over an open flame & sleeping in a swag are well & truly behind me. Nowadays I look forward to all my comforts of glamping & the hum of my generator of course.
Santa said
12:17 PM Jan 18, 2017
dazz49 wrote:
Santa wants to try living on a cattle station where the big generator runs day in day out. Its like living next to a train line. After a few weeks " What train "
Generators on cattle stations are located well away from the house and sleeping quarters, and are usually shut down around 10 PM.
Nowadays of coarse many of them are 100% solar with a backup gen set lurking in the background.
Yep, worked on a few.
KevinC said
03:08 PM Jan 18, 2017
It's pointless complaining that things aren't the way they used to be. That's life, that's progress. We welcome the advantages so how about we all accept what the world is now and stop whinging that it doesn't suit us. Does anyone really want to turn back the clock? Does anyone really want to be driving on gravel roads, with no communication, with limited medication. Those who do should realize it's up to them to find their little piece of solitude, not up to me to give it to them. That little spot by the creek where we used to escape from it all is now in the middle of town and the creek is now a drain. That's what our society has achieved, that's just the way it is. But that drain now has street lights over it and a 24huor servo next door. It's what we wanted, so don't whinge that it doesn't look like it used to.
Don't expect all vanners to look for some kind of primitive lifestyle. For most these days the van is the opportunity to see parts of the country public transport doesn't service. That doesn't mean going without electricity, or gas, or refrigeration, or communication, or even packaged entertainment. That simply means getting there to be there. Don't anyone dare tell me I'm wrong for choosing to travel comfortably. If I need a generator (I don't need one yet) then I'll carry and use one as I see fit. Why should I swelter or freeze when I could have packaged electricity. If the bloke over the way only has hot beer, I'll offer him a cold one, but if he regards me as some kind of second class citizen because I use a generator to cool my beer then he can find someone else's beer to cry into.
Santa is right that life under canvas isn't what it used to be. Hands up all those grey nomads who want to trudge around Oz with a swag and a billy. Yep I thought so. Who wants to leave the gas at home and light a fire every night to cook tea? Me neither. Very few takers for the simple life. Probably about as many as there were 75 years ago. So who are the hundreds of thousands of travelers who camp around Oz every year, who use gas and electricity? They're the majority, and they'll win by sheer numbers every time.
Stop bashing your gums about generators. They are now a socially and legally acceptable way of supporting our 2017 lifestyle. There's still plenty of space for quiet reflection, but maybe no longer in a popular camping spot.
And if the anti-generator brigade think they're hard done by, consider a bloke I know whose ancestry here goes back some 40,000 years. He thinks he's hard done by too, but he can't turn back the clock either.
aussie_paul said
03:53 PM Jan 18, 2017
HunnyBunny wrote:
Well Santa my days of cooking over an open flame & sleeping in a swag are well & truly behind me. Nowadays I look forward to all my comforts of glamping & the hum of my generator of course.
Aussie Paul.
Ron-D said
04:38 PM Jan 18, 2017
Looks like this site is full of gennie freaks but most of the people out there from what I have observed can manage without the noisey things....
god streuth just because you don't have a gennie does not mean your sleeping in a swag and cooking over an open fire were not doing it tough in our new rig ....
-- Edited by Ron-D on Wednesday 18th of January 2017 04:42:30 PM
KevinC said
04:40 PM Jan 18, 2017
Ron-D wrote:
Looks like this site is full of gennie freaks but most of the people out there from what I have observed can manage without the noisey things....
Absolutely correct Ron. Most folk don't need them much at all, but when they do that's their choice.
Delta18 said
05:03 PM Jan 18, 2017
We don't need a genny, we can run A/c, coffee maker & frother, induction hotplate, elect kettle, elect toaster from inverter. (Not all at once though )
So, yes, we rough it without genny!
Cruising Cruze said
08:25 PM Jan 18, 2017
@Santa
I think you are jealous because you don't know how to cook an good Paella
Cheers John
aussie_paul said
08:58 PM Jan 18, 2017
Delta18 wrote:
We don't need a genny, we can run A/c, coffee maker & frother, induction hotplate, elect kettle, elect toaster from inverter. (Not all at once though )
It's true that life under canvas isn't what it used to be: roll up your swag, hook a billy to your belt and go. Now people bring shower tents, gas cookers, solar panels and even paella pans.
And I might add, bloody generators.
Full article here.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/camping-out-sure-aint-what-it-used-to-be-20170112-gtqqka.html
And Santa, we are just lovin it
with all the mod cons. But you have hurt my generators feelings 
. But he will get over it and rev up again tomorrow 
Gene is in the back of the collie crying
Good Luck.
We don't want this thread deGENERATING into the usual bun fight do we?
never leave home with out your generator
Our first "camping trip" after we were married was with a Mazda wagon and 3 man tent (the triangle shape with fly), one of those small round BBQs, a small gas bottle, air mattresses, sleeping bags and food in a box in the back of the car. Lived in SA then and went up through the center.
Santa wants to try living on a cattle station where the big generator runs day in day out. Its like living next to a train line. After a few weeks " What train "
Or try sleeping in a swag in the middle of the Simpson and a dingo lets odd a howl 5 feet from yours, or stop in Coober Pedy and the locals let off a stick of gelignite, at 2.00am 3.00am and 4.00am and every dog for 20 mile goes into a barking frenzy. You would be pleased to hear the soothing hum of a Honda genny lulling you off to sleep.
Generators on cattle stations are located well away from the house and sleeping quarters, and are usually shut down around 10 PM.
Nowadays of coarse many of them are 100% solar with a backup gen set lurking in the background.
Yep, worked on a few.
Don't expect all vanners to look for some kind of primitive lifestyle. For most these days the van is the opportunity to see parts of the country public transport doesn't service. That doesn't mean going without electricity, or gas, or refrigeration, or communication, or even packaged entertainment. That simply means getting there to be there. Don't anyone dare tell me I'm wrong for choosing to travel comfortably. If I need a generator (I don't need one yet) then I'll carry and use one as I see fit. Why should I swelter or freeze when I could have packaged electricity. If the bloke over the way only has hot beer, I'll offer him a cold one, but if he regards me as some kind of second class citizen because I use a generator to cool my beer then he can find someone else's beer to cry into.
Santa is right that life under canvas isn't what it used to be. Hands up all those grey nomads who want to trudge around Oz with a swag and a billy. Yep I thought so. Who wants to leave the gas at home and light a fire every night to cook tea? Me neither. Very few takers for the simple life. Probably about as many as there were 75 years ago. So who are the hundreds of thousands of travelers who camp around Oz every year, who use gas and electricity? They're the majority, and they'll win by sheer numbers every time.
Stop bashing your gums about generators. They are now a socially and legally acceptable way of supporting our 2017 lifestyle. There's still plenty of space for quiet reflection, but maybe no longer in a popular camping spot.
And if the anti-generator brigade think they're hard done by, consider a bloke I know whose ancestry here goes back some 40,000 years. He thinks he's hard done by too, but he can't turn back the clock either.
Aussie Paul.
Looks like this site is full of gennie freaks
but most of the people out there from what I have observed can manage without the noisey things....
god streuth just because you don't have a gennie does not mean your sleeping in a swag and cooking over an open fire were not doing it tough in our new rig ....
-- Edited by Ron-D on Wednesday 18th of January 2017 04:42:30 PM
Absolutely correct Ron. Most folk don't need them much at all, but when they do that's their choice.
We don't need a genny, we can run A/c, coffee maker & frother, induction hotplate, elect kettle, elect toaster from inverter. (Not all at once though
)
So, yes, we rough it without genny!
@Santa
I think you are jealous because you don't know how to cook an good Paella
Cheers John
lol, touche.
Auszsie Paul.