Just wanting some thoughts on anyone's experience with leaving their caravan at the Windorah unmanned caravan park ? We are thinking of leaving our van there for a couple of nights in August while we head out to Birdsville and stay at the pub. How secure it will be is our concern ? Thanks in advance for any feed back. Cheers
Warren-Pat_01 said
11:24 PM Jul 1, 2018
Friends (in 1976) left their van at the Birdsville Police Station while they did the Birdsville - Windorah - run south & back up to Birdsville loop again. We met them at a bore crossing north of the Cooper Creek.
Your van's security amounts to ?? security protection you have, type of coupling, chains locked, etc. We saw a large Bushmaster van at a park just off the Eyre Highway where the owners went down to the Eyre Bird Sanctuary about 4 years ago. It was ok just sitting there - the chains were just hanging. We weren't game to leave ours there!
Santa said
11:09 AM Jul 2, 2018
wilkopj wrote:
Just wanting some thoughts on anyone's experience with leaving their caravan at the Windorah unmanned caravan park ? We are thinking of leaving our van there for a couple of nights in August while we head out to Birdsville and stay at the pub. How secure it will be is our concern ? Thanks in advance for any feed back. Cheers
I certainly wouldn't leave it there unattended, asking for trouble.
suengreg said
02:58 PM Jul 3, 2018
We stayed there for 1 night last August. There did not seem to be any problems in town with DUIs, teenager parties. Actually I am thinking of going back in a year or 2 to get to Birdsville without van. You could always ask at the pub or Police station if they knew of a safe place to leave the van.
Safe travels
Greg
moamajohn said
08:50 AM Jul 4, 2018
Frankly I would check your policy too as mine says that I have a duty of care to make reasonable effort to keep van secure ! Cheers
reeb51 said
07:50 PM Jul 4, 2018
We left our van at the Windora cp last year for two nights while we went out to Birdsville. A lot of other vanners leave their vans there and if there was any trouble with anything happening to vans I think the word would soon get around and I havent heard or read of any thing happening.
wilkopj said
07:52 AM Jul 7, 2018
Appreciate all your reply's folks some things we need to consider, particularly the insurance aspect. Cheers. Safe Travels all.
Just wanting some thoughts on anyone's experience with leaving their caravan at the Windorah unmanned caravan park ? We are thinking of leaving our van there for a couple of nights in August while we head out to Birdsville and stay at the pub. How secure it will be is our concern ? Thanks in advance for any feed back. Cheers
Your van's security amounts to ?? security protection you have, type of coupling, chains locked, etc. We saw a large Bushmaster van at a park just off the Eyre Highway where the owners went down to the Eyre Bird Sanctuary about 4 years ago. It was ok just sitting there - the chains were just hanging. We weren't game to leave ours there!
I certainly wouldn't leave it there unattended, asking for trouble.
Safe travels
Greg