We have stayed in the Inglewood area twice now, once at Coolmunda Dam, when it was open for free camping a few years ago and recently just outside of Inglewood in a secluded camp spot. While at the dam we noticed several cars drive through every day and recognised those cars in town parked at one of the local pubs, when we went to town for water. Strange thing was these people were not camping at the dam, they drove in....drove through past all the campers looking at all and then went back out towards town on Tobacco Road or back towards Matilda's on the Inglewood to Warwick road. We also had someone hanging around camp at night time. Our second recent camping trip included a similar experience, we were well away from the road, had farms houses more than 2km away, surrounded by bush and no one else around for miles, we were not within, but close to the state forest in a known but unknown camp spot where there had been nomads pulled in before due to the many remains of campfires surrounding where we camped, we were definitely not on private property, we were stopped there for one week total and from the second night onwards we were noticing our dog beginning to hear and see something and she began to bark and growl while watching something in the distance with her ears and hackled raised, this happened night and day, sometimes it may have been roo's but it didn't happen the first couple of days, it seemed to co-inside with the driving through of a local in a ute who we thought was collecting timber as we heard a chainsaw in the distance amongst the bush...from this point on, we began to notice a few noises around us at night with a possible glimpse of a light once or twice but were not sure at the time and early hours on the 7th morning I would swear I heard footsteps on the gravel outside of our vehicle but passed it off as an animal as there were some kangaroos and possums around from time to time. But by the 7th night all went a little eerie when we had whoever it was venture almost into camp, we glimpsed a dull torch light about the size of a dolphin torch beam just away from camp which disappeared behind some scrubby trees and then we noticed someone with a headlamp on who was just between our trailer and ensuite tent, I would guess about 3 metres from the centre of camp, once they had been noticed they went amongst the tree line where the reflector of a torch was picked up in our spotlights which quickly disappeared, then we heard a commotion in the bush as though someone had run into a tree/branch, Hoping they had a brush with one of the many prickly pair trees infesting the area , but not knowing their intentions and fearing for our safety as no one knew where we were camped and we were right out of view of passing cars and farmhouses, we high tailed it out at 8:30pm and stopped in a spot were other nomads fequently stop up near Millmerran. You would think that if they wanted to just steal something, they would have nabbed it and gone...why hang around camp and venture closer every night...made us wonder what would have happened that night if we had have slept there again....we have made a decision never to return to Inglewood/Goondiwindi region...excluding Texas. It has definitely given us the Inglewood Jitters. We have been told by a fellow nomad that inglewood is one of the worste towns for gossip, paranoia and has the largest population of sticky beaks in QLD, although we know many small towns have them, we have lived in more than one...but Inglewood is by far the worste town for this that we have ever encountered. We have suspicions that the people from town seem to have a paranoia about camping and nomads in general. We have camped in many towns in secluded and unsecluded camp spots, some paying and some free campgrounds and some disused gravel pits etc and never had any issues such as the ones we experienced at Inglewood..No matter where we are, even if parked free, we always spend our fair share of money across a large amount of business in each town from buying groceries, fuel, scripts, take away and books on the history of the area and many other things and in fact ,by staying free, we spend more across several business in each town than we would staying at a caravan park with the park fees to payout on top...but guys Inglewood is crossed off our list of towns to visit and we will not be staying anywhere near, If you do visit and especially stay...please take care, we are not the only ones this has happened to.. Has anyone else had a similar experience at Inglewood.

Jules47 thanks for the reply, it's great to meet a fellow full time nomad. We have noticed the same that the indigenous Australians are treated roughly and wherever we go the indigenous people are always happy and polite. It is such a shame to see them treated so badly. I don't blame you for leaving, would have been a bit scary for you. We would have done the same thing and packed up and left. We are ensuring that if we stop in a secluded spot again, we are prepared and ready to move in a hurry if we have to just in case. Our experience was quite a creepy one, it was the motives of the ones sneaking around that was the real worry. We were terrified of what might have happened when we were asleep.

Aussie - no worries with me - I have no problem with colour or race or creed. Each to his own, but in the instance Waffle put forward, these were people sneaking around in the dark, close to and in their camp - that is a worry. In our instance, we felt vulnerable as we were close to the entrance, plus had car and trailer on the back.

We have completely lost time when we have stayed some places, just get up in the morning and decide it's too nice to leave today - tomorrow will do - love it!

Well we recently had to spend a night at the free camp in Inglewood, the tug was on the back of the RACQ truck and we actually didn't have any drama with "snoopers", found the local Police pretty good and the RACQ fellas on the ball, but am always wary when there are drive bys from non campers, always suss of them.......................I was once classified a Marksman, older now may need 2 attempts.............................. having lost a work vehicle to ratbags with matches in the Gundy area I do prefer to stay elsewhere..............