How many people have a "Favourite Camp Spot" out there , that they hope never makes it onto Wiki Camps ,
because they know it would probably go if too many people used it. I Do. I'm sure we all do. ????
Desert Dweller said
05:54 AM Mar 4, 2017
We have quite a lot of them. Hopefully they stay off Wiki Camps & Camps Australia Wide.
With thousands hitting the road now & many thousands to come in the future it makes you think what will happen in the future?
Overcrowding of free campsites could become a real problem.
sandsmere said
08:01 AM Mar 4, 2017
.Yes, we have several. Wont be putting them on Wikicamps or any forums either.
Luckily none are in CAW yet.
TAJ said
11:25 AM Mar 4, 2017
my opinion it is a bit selfish did you not pick a few places from WIKI CAW or this FORUM
TAJ
brickies said
12:21 PM Mar 4, 2017
Mine is Walkamin central caravan park near Tolga in NQ .
Mike Harding said
01:26 PM Mar 4, 2017
>my opinion it is a bit selfish
I can understand why you say that but....
Over many years I spent hundreds of hours doing hard four wheel driving across much of Victoria. Sometimes I got bogged and had great trouble getting out, sometimes I damaged the vehicle, sometimes I suffered minor injuries and often I spent uncomfortable and wet nights in the middle of wet forests wondering what the hell I was doing there when I had a nice warm, dry home 300km distant! :)
But I did it because I wanted to find beautiful places to camp, places that no one but the locals knew and they don't camp there much because they don't need to. I worked damned hard to build up the database of remote Victorian camp spots I now have.
I don't have a caravan yet but I will over the next two years or less and I'll probably use some Wiki Camps locations then, in fact I used one four months ago when the day went wrong and the camps I expected to be OK weren't so I used a Wiki Camps spot in NW Victoria which was pleasant enough but had a lot of litter and was 100m from a road with heavy trucks passing. There is *no way* I am exchanging my beautiful High Country spots for that.
And, frankly, there are a lot of d!ckheads out there and they don't give a toss if they leave rubbish, churn up the tracks, pollute the creeks of even leave their faecal waste uncovered around the camp and I don't want to help those people one iota to spoil and abuse the bush.
So no, I'll take from Wiki Camps and similar but I will not contribute to it and for that I make no apology because I shall continue to share my precious locations with friends I can trust to treat them with respect.
macka17 said
03:23 PM Mar 4, 2017
Same thing here.
I've beeen doing it since '74 in this country.
Have a LOOOOONG list in my mind.
and that's where it stays.
As said.
Too many dicks and people who don't know the meaning of "Leave it as you found it",
less the bits YOU picked up while there.
There is very little. or NO respect for anything nowadays.
Look after what's left.
and have your camera ready to get a shot of the idiots when you get a chance.
I carry a telescoping "knocking stick" beside car seat. and a short Cattle prod by door in van.
I'm "mature" these days and can't jump out and snot the Bast---s.
So nowadays. I leave that to my "technology".
and bugg-r what the do gooders on here may say.
One day...................
Basically. Just enjoy what there is. while there still IS.
and be thankful we are old enough to remember life when it was enjoyable and responsible.
I feel for our grandkids and theirs.
JocknNik said
05:59 PM Mar 4, 2017
What Mike and Macka said. We don't have a lot of spots, just a few remote bits of heaven, mainly for fishing, one of which is not available for camping any more because it's now a reserve. But we keep pretty tight lipped about 'em.
Using the 'selfish' argument doesn't cut any ice. No-one's stopping anybody from going and finding their own.
Santa said
08:36 PM Mar 4, 2017
JocknNik wrote:
What Mike and Macka said. We don't have a lot of spots, just a few remote bits of heaven, mainly for fishing, one of which is not available for camping any more because it's now a reserve. But we keep pretty tight lipped about 'em.
Using the 'selfish' argument doesn't cut any ice. No-one's stopping anybody from going and finding their own.
Spot on Jock, like you we've done a lot of travel during the past 40 years, and developed a few favorites, don't pass the locations on, even to friends and relatives.
As you say " No-one's stopping anybody from going and finding their own"
Loose lips sink ships.
Chucker said
08:57 PM Mar 4, 2017
Thank you. I don't feel selfish, just happy to go to my little place of peace that we enjoy a lot.
It probably does get used , but as yet we can still go straight there without much hassle.
Secrets are good to have sometimes!!!!
Lancelot Link said
11:51 PM Mar 4, 2017
My big problem I have found when I get some where is that I am treated like trailer trash by those who believe it is their spot. Doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, wants me to stop looking for those special spots. If that is your aim, then please stay home and let us enjoy them without being treated like this! Other than that, I figure this post will get hammered in the normal way!
Desert Dweller said
05:35 AM Mar 5, 2017
Here's a shot of one of our favourite camping spots.
We've been going there for many years, sometimes staying up to a fortnight & have never seen another human being there.
I agree don't tell anyone about ya favorite spots,we've seen 3 of our best remote spots ruined by yobbo's ripping the place up and leavin rubbish and worse all over the place,keep them to yourself and enjoy them while you can.
cheers
Gaz
brickies said
11:42 AM Mar 5, 2017
This post prove we are a caring, sharing forum and also friendly .
Mike Harding said
12:03 PM Mar 5, 2017
>This post prove we are a caring, sharing forum and also friendly.
Some things are just too precious to give to any passing stranger, who knows how they may treat it.
-- Edited by Webmaster on Sunday 5th of March 2017 06:35:26 PM
Santa said
12:21 PM Mar 5, 2017
brickies wrote:
This post prove we are a caring, sharing forum and also friendly .
Guess it also proves that some feel everything should be handed to them on a plate, no personal effort required let others do the hard miles, then demand the info be shared with the world, it simply don't work that way.
Entitlement, that's the word I was looking for.
landy said
10:56 PM Mar 5, 2017
Mike Harding wrote:
>my opinion it is a bit selfish
I can understand why you say that but....
Over many years I spent hundreds of hours doing hard four wheel driving across much of Victoria. Sometimes I got bogged and had great trouble getting out, sometimes I damaged the vehicle, sometimes I suffered minor injuries and often I spent uncomfortable and wet nights in the middle of wet forests wondering what the hell I was doing there when I had a nice warm, dry home 300km distant! :)
But I did it because I wanted to find beautiful places to camp, places that no one but the locals knew and they don't camp there much because they don't need to. I worked damned hard to build up the database of remote Victorian camp spots I now have.
I don't have a caravan yet but I will over the next two years or less and I'll probably use some Wiki Camps locations then, in fact I used one four months ago when the day went wrong and the camps I expected to be OK weren't so I used a Wiki Camps spot in NW Victoria which was pleasant enough but had a lot of litter and was 100m from a road with heavy trucks passing. There is *no way* I am exchanging my beautiful High Country spots for that.
And, frankly, there are a lot of d!ckheads out there and they don't give a toss if they leave rubbish, churn up the tracks, pollute the creeks of even leave their faecal waste uncovered around the camp and I don't want to help those people one iota to spoil and abuse the bush.
So no, I'll take from Wiki Camps and similar but I will not contribute to it and for that I make no apology because I shall continue to share my precious locations with friends I can trust to treat them with respect.
Aw come on Mike promise I wont tell anyone else.
Tony Bev said
11:34 PM Mar 5, 2017
This is only my opinion, so I could be wrong But.. If no one passed on information, which they had found through their own efforts, we would still be waiting for the wheel to be invented
Fringe Dweller said
07:35 AM Mar 6, 2017
A bit over 20y ago I found one . SO I bought it.
macka17 said
10:34 AM Mar 6, 2017
There is one little place I'll share here.
found it a LOT of yrs ago and it can't be spoiled much.
One rd in. Sealed off pretty much. and restricted to a small number of overnighters.
If you ordered a "burger with the lot" at the store.
you also ordered 2 x knives and forks.
Etty Bay. Look it up.
You won't get a park in there very often.
but a nice litle place to drive to on way through with a lovely beach stroll.
brickies said
10:53 AM Mar 6, 2017
Yes Macka I have stayed there top place , Lots to see around the area to if you can pull yourself away from Etty Bat .
How many people have a "Favourite Camp Spot" out there , that they hope never makes it onto Wiki Camps ,
because they know it would probably go if too many people used it. I Do. I'm sure we all do. ????
With thousands hitting the road now & many thousands to come in the future it makes you think what will happen in the future?
Overcrowding of free campsites could become a real problem.
.Yes, we have several. Wont be putting them on Wikicamps or any forums either.
Luckily none are in CAW yet.
my opinion it is a bit selfish did you not pick a few places from WIKI CAW or this FORUM
TAJ
>my opinion it is a bit selfish
I can understand why you say that but....
Over many years I spent hundreds of hours doing hard four wheel
driving across much of Victoria. Sometimes I got bogged and had great
trouble getting out, sometimes I damaged the vehicle, sometimes I
suffered minor injuries and often I spent uncomfortable and wet
nights in the middle of wet forests wondering what the hell I was
doing there when I had a nice warm, dry home 300km distant! :)
But I did it because I wanted to find beautiful places to camp,
places that no one but the locals knew and they don't camp there much
because they don't need to. I worked damned hard to build up the
database of remote Victorian camp spots I now have.
I don't have a caravan yet but I will over the next two years or less
and I'll probably use some Wiki Camps locations then, in fact I used
one four months ago when the day went wrong and the camps I expected
to be OK weren't so I used a Wiki Camps spot in NW Victoria which was
pleasant enough but had a lot of litter and was 100m from a road with
heavy trucks passing. There is *no way* I am exchanging my beautiful
High Country spots for that.
And, frankly, there are a lot of d!ckheads out there and they don't
give a toss if they leave rubbish, churn up the tracks, pollute the
creeks of even leave their faecal waste uncovered around the camp and
I don't want to help those people one iota to spoil and abuse the
bush.
So no, I'll take from Wiki Camps and similar but I will not
contribute to it and for that I make no apology because I shall
continue to share my precious locations with friends I can trust to
treat them with respect.
I've beeen doing it since '74 in this country.
Have a LOOOOONG list in my mind.
and that's where it stays.
As said.
Too many dicks and people who don't know the meaning of "Leave it as you found it",
less the bits YOU picked up while there.
There is very little. or NO respect for anything nowadays.
Look after what's left.
and have your camera ready to get a shot of the idiots when you get a chance.
I carry a telescoping "knocking stick" beside car seat. and a short Cattle prod by door in van.
I'm "mature" these days and can't jump out and snot the Bast---s.
So nowadays. I leave that to my "technology".
and bugg-r what the do gooders on here may say.
One day...................
Basically. Just enjoy what there is. while there still IS.
and be thankful we are old enough to remember life when it was enjoyable and responsible.
I feel for our grandkids and theirs.
Using the 'selfish' argument doesn't cut any ice. No-one's stopping anybody from going and finding their own.
Spot on Jock, like you we've done a lot of travel during the past 40 years, and developed a few favorites, don't pass the locations on, even to friends and relatives.
As you say " No-one's stopping anybody from going and finding their own"
Loose lips sink ships.
It probably does get used , but as yet we can still go straight there without much hassle.
Secrets are good to have sometimes!!!!
Here's a shot of one of our favourite camping spots.
We've been going there for many years, sometimes staying up to a fortnight & have never seen another human being there.
Ah! the serenity.
cheers
Gaz
>This post prove we are a caring, sharing forum and also friendly.
Some things are just too precious to give to any passing stranger, who
knows how they may treat it.
-- Edited by Webmaster on Sunday 5th of March 2017 06:35:26 PM
Guess it also proves that some feel everything should be handed to them on a plate, no personal effort required
let others do the hard miles, then demand the info be shared with the world, it simply don't work that way.
Entitlement, that's the word I was looking for.
Aw come on Mike promise I wont tell anyone else.
This is only my opinion, so I could be wrong
But..
If no one passed on information, which they had found through their own efforts, we would still be waiting for the wheel to be invented
A bit over 20y ago I found one . SO I bought it.
found it a LOT of yrs ago and it can't be spoiled much.
One rd in. Sealed off pretty much. and restricted to a small number of overnighters.
If you ordered a "burger with the lot" at the store.
you also ordered 2 x knives and forks.
Etty Bay. Look it up.
You won't get a park in there very often.
but a nice litle place to drive to on way through with a lovely beach stroll.