We are travelling over on the day crossing from Tassie , arriving after 7 or 8 and driving and driving down to the start of the Great Ocean Road. We have heard that you get fined for staying in car parks at beaches. So after 10 pm what options have we got? How lenient are they this late at night ?
murray_p said
08:35 PM Oct 15, 2017
We are travelling over on the day crossing from Tassie , arriving after 7 or 8 and driving and driving down to the start of the Great Ocean Road. We have heard that you get fined for staying in car parks at beaches. So after 10 pm what options have we got? How lenient are they this late at night ?
blaze said
09:12 PM Oct 15, 2017
book into a cp, most accept late check ins
cheers
blaze
STRETCH ARMSTRONG said
09:36 PM Oct 15, 2017
Hi murray, I think the last of the free camps on ocean road are now gone. You will be risking a fine so I would plan ahead. Wiki camps should help. I parked in melb one night beside a park as there were no restriction signs. Stretch
oldbloke said
01:47 AM Oct 16, 2017
You could pull over on the hwy beside the BP a couple km past the Little River exit. There is a large overnight camp there. Fuel and water too I guess. Very popular this time of year.
Old and tired said
04:57 AM Oct 16, 2017
We lived for twenty years in Point Lonsdale, at the heads of Port Philip Bay and a theoretical starting point for the great ocean road, sort of. There is one part time cop in Queenscliff, the next town down the line, and one extremely repellant "bylaws officer". We lived in the T tree in the back of town and there were motorhomes lurking in the street quite often. Seemed to me to be a good scam.
It is the caravan park owners who fight against free camping, whinging and whining about lost business to the local councils. Seems to be an Australian thing, we have been living in England and driving round Europe and there are very few restrictions. Recently in Devon in a little fishing village we noticed seven or eight motorhomes using the local car park, which had nice views of the sea.
At the chip shop, you had to buy your drinks from the pub over the road, and you could take your chips over if you wanted to soak in the atmosphere! It was a great set up. A "medium cod" was bigger than your head. Very tasty too.
RossG
the rocket said
10:24 AM Oct 16, 2017
Brucknell scout nirrandra
hi, we did this trip a few months ago. We came from the warnambool end and stayed at bracknell scout camp, narranda n did a day trip to lavers hill. then next day drove down to geelong showgrounds and did a day trip up to apollo bay.
Why do members insist on "free" camps? This limits your choices. There are plenty of alternate or freedom camp spots available for lo cost fees. To give you a start onto the GOR you could try Geelong showground. Get yourself WikiCamps. For $8 you can load it onto 3 devices, pads, phones and Windows 10 in any combination.
villatranquilla said
03:04 PM Oct 16, 2017
Nullawarre has an area with toilets and picnic tables that would make a great overnight stop just near a little cafe that does the best fish and chips. We have worked near here and have never seen anyone even having a picnic there. All that's at Nullawarre is school, hall, servo with cheap fuel used by all the locals that also sells basic groceries and the café. Is about 40 minutes from Warnambool and road signs at Nullarre say its the start of the Great Ocean Rd. (or end depending on the direction of your travels)
dieseltojo said
04:27 PM Oct 16, 2017
STRETCH ARMSTRONG wrote:
Hi murray, I think the last of the free camps on ocean road are now gone. You will be risking a fine so I would plan ahead. Wiki camps should help. I parked in melb one night beside a park as there were no restriction signs. Stretch
Oh yes it has to be free right? No signs so just stay the night....got to be free right?
No signs in front of my home either must be free there too. You have to be kidding.
It is not the staying that annoys, it is the junk these free loaders leave behind, and their toilet habits. Of course it would never be you though. Never is.
-- Edited by dieseltojo on Monday 16th of October 2017 04:28:54 PM
the rocket said
05:22 PM Oct 16, 2017
dieseltojo wrote:
STRETCH ARMSTRONG wrote:
Hi murray, I think the last of the free camps on ocean road are now gone. You will be risking a fine so I would plan ahead. Wiki camps should help. I parked in melb one night beside a park as there were no restriction signs. Stretch
Oh yes it has to be free right? No signs so just stay the night....got to be free right?
No signs in front of my home either must be free there too. You have to be kidding.
It is not the staying that annoys, it is the junk these free loaders leave behind, and their toilet habits. Of course it would never be you though. Never is.
-- Edited by dieseltojo on Monday 16th of October 2017 04:28:54 PM
Dieseltojo, wow, that s a bit savage.
the rocket said
05:26 PM Oct 16, 2017
dieseltojo wrote:
STRETCH ARMSTRONG wrote:
Hi murray, I think the last of the free camps on ocean road are now gone. You will be risking a fine so I would plan ahead. Wiki camps should help. I parked in melb one night beside a park as there were no restriction signs. Stretch
Oh yes it has to be free right? No signs so just stay the night....got to be free right?
No signs in front of my home either must be free there too. You have to be kidding.
It is not the staying that annoys, it is the junk these free loaders leave behind, and their toilet habits. Of course it would never be you though. Never is.
-- Edited by dieseltojo on Monday 16th of October 2017 04:28:54 PM
Dieseltojo, wow, thats a bit savage.
Eaglemax said
05:27 PM Oct 16, 2017
Gee, nastiness against free campers.
Some people didnt get inheritance, big super, luck of real estate boom etc and outside your home isnt your land...check your title thats a council matter.
Poorer people often have got a right to buy a cheap rig and camp at free camps or if they can afford the show grounds for 8 bucks a night good on them but please dont assume a misely $8 is affordable for the poor.
Or do your middle class expect them to watch TV all their lives?
And who wamts to squeeze into a caravan park with big rigs 2 metres away. Not my idea of fun.
blaze said
07:23 PM Oct 16, 2017
but why do people expect to free camp in the middle of town, go 10 or 20km from town and there are plenty of places to spend a night or two, I know where I would rather be
cheers
blaze
JohnR said
10:34 PM Oct 16, 2017
Murray
Just confirming what the "oldbloke" has said. BP Service Station on the Werribee Geelong MI hwy you will find a very reasonable rest area/free camp. There is access to toilets at the Service Station and food etc. We followed the Motorhomes/Caravans exiting the Ferry on 6th May this year pre daylight saving so in the dark many making there way to this stop. A little over an hour from the ferry terminal if my memory is correct.
JohnR
Aus-Kiwi said
11:21 PM Oct 17, 2017
We stopped in car park at one of the look outs . Self contained motorhome . No we didn't poop in car park !!
Tony Bev said
10:24 AM Oct 18, 2017
May I be one of the first to welcome you to the forum, murray p
Not sure when you are coming or, if you are already here
If you obtain a copy of Camps Australia Wide (think the latest is book 9), or download wikicamps, it shows where the camps are
As oldbloke and JohnR have already said
There is a servo between Melbourne and Geelong, on the Princess Highway, which allows overnight parking
I stayed on the one, on the side going from Geelong to Melbourne
It is always good to purchase fuel, and a bite to eat at these free stops, otherwise there will be no incentive, for them, to allow us to park there
In 2013 when I went along the Great Ocean Road, the only site seeing car parks which had toilets was (from memory), where the Twelve Apostles are
I have no idea if that has changed
dieseltojo said
08:46 AM Oct 19, 2017
I don't mean to be savage at all.
I am a self-contained free camper myself. But having been on the receiving end of overnight parkers that leave their rubbish and bodily deposits right beside their cars at night, I am over it. I mean what are you to do about a toilet?
I am sick of going around overnight stops with a shovel doing other folks necessaries.
I see no mention of the type of transport or facility in the OP. The very thought that the lack of a no camping sign is an excuse for over nighting in the suburbs or near parks is disturbing.
How hard is it to book ahead and visit a caravan park for one night?
brickies said
05:06 PM Oct 25, 2017
I free camp but never in a built up area , Love to free camp out in the sticks but would not think of doing it in a big township .
cheers
blaze
It is the caravan park owners who fight against free camping, whinging and whining about lost business to the local councils. Seems to be an Australian thing, we have been living in England and driving round Europe and there are very few restrictions. Recently in Devon in a little fishing village we noticed seven or eight motorhomes using the local car park, which had nice views of the sea.
At the chip shop, you had to buy your drinks from the pub over the road, and you could take your chips over if you wanted to soak in the atmosphere! It was a great set up. A "medium cod" was bigger than your head. Very tasty too.
RossG
Brucknell scout nirrandra
hi, we did this trip a few months ago. We came from the warnambool end and stayed at bracknell scout camp, narranda n did a day trip to lavers hill. then next day drove down to geelong showgrounds and did a day trip up to apollo bay.
Why do members insist on "free" camps? This limits your choices. There are plenty of alternate or freedom camp spots available for lo cost fees. To give you a start onto the GOR you could try Geelong showground. Get yourself WikiCamps. For $8 you can load it onto 3 devices, pads, phones and Windows 10 in any combination.
Oh yes it has to be free right? No signs so just stay the night....got to be free right?
No signs in front of my home either must be free there too. You have to be kidding.
It is not the staying that annoys, it is the junk these free loaders leave behind, and their toilet habits. Of course it would never be you though. Never is.
-- Edited by dieseltojo on Monday 16th of October 2017 04:28:54 PM
Dieseltojo, wow, that s a bit savage.
Dieseltojo, wow, thats a bit savage.
cheers
blaze
Murray
Just confirming what the "oldbloke" has said. BP Service Station on the Werribee Geelong MI hwy you will find a very reasonable rest area/free camp. There is access to toilets at the Service Station and food etc. We followed the Motorhomes/Caravans exiting the Ferry on 6th May this year pre daylight saving so in the dark many making there way to this stop. A little over an hour from the ferry terminal if my memory is correct.
JohnR
Not sure when you are coming or, if you are already here
If you obtain a copy of Camps Australia Wide (think the latest is book 9), or download wikicamps, it shows where the camps are
As oldbloke and JohnR have already said
There is a servo between Melbourne and Geelong, on the Princess Highway, which allows overnight parking
I stayed on the one, on the side going from Geelong to Melbourne
It is always good to purchase fuel, and a bite to eat at these free stops, otherwise there will be no incentive, for them, to allow us to park there
In 2013 when I went along the Great Ocean Road, the only site seeing car parks which had toilets was (from memory), where the Twelve Apostles are
I have no idea if that has changed
I don't mean to be savage at all.
I am a self-contained free camper myself. But having been on the receiving end of overnight parkers that leave their rubbish and bodily deposits right beside their cars at night, I am over it. I mean what are you to do about a toilet?
I am sick of going around overnight stops with a shovel doing other folks necessaries.
I see no mention of the type of transport or facility in the OP. The very thought that the lack of a no camping sign is an excuse for over nighting in the suburbs or near parks is disturbing.
How hard is it to book ahead and visit a caravan park for one night?