Big 4 Group has bought the Camp book??????

jetj · Guru

Big 4 Group has bought the Camp book??????

spida · Guru

Talking to nomads who tell me that Big 4 group have bought the publishing rights to the Camp bible. Now why would they do that????? Do they want to shut it down??? Any one else heard this.

ozjohn · Guru

Have you heard of the engineering and blacksmiths shop in Shepparton?
Furphy and Son.

jimbo · Guru

We always have Caravancaravan.com.au and it's free Better that a book

Happywanderer · The Master

There was a thread about this on here a few months ago and it was proven to be false at that time. I can't remember the details but it might have been something else they had bought and not Camps Aus Wide.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Think Just Cruising may have posted the one HW is talking about - it was proven to be false.

Duh · Guru

I put a reply to the previous one that I had spoken to the owner of CAW and they said it was false and they had no intention of selling it to Big 4 or anyone else....

spida · Guru

that is good news - will put those campers right tomorrow :)

herbie · Guru

Could not see why the big 4 or any other chain would want to buy the bible, when they have enough clout regarding closing free/ low cost camps down .

dawa · Guru

I find my own sites.

Am going to include the camps book when I sell the camper

Dawa

Legendts · Senior Member

I have been using the iPad version of WikiCamps and have found that pretty good this trip. Able to upload photos, make comments good or bad etc. sorry if off topic.

Duh · Guru

spida wrote:
that is good news - will put those campers right tomorrow :)

The owner of CAW is Phillip Fennel, here is his reply to my query;

Hi Vic,

It's a happy hour tale....

Camps Australia Wide is not sold.....we own it, and there are many more Editions to come

Regards & safe travel

Philip

Camps Australia Wide Pty Ltd

07 5449 1476

0419 496 503

From mobile office

herbie · Guru

I have been using Wiki camps for awhile from ipad and find it more convenient..

snapper49 · Senior Member

jimbo wrote:
We always have Caravancaravan.com.au and it's free Better that a book

checked it out and heaps of info not available ie many well known camp sites not listed

Grams · Guru

We have the CAW book, but I also have Wikicamps on my iPad, I do like this as you can honestly comment on what you experience, plus you can upload photos as well. So instead of having to ask people what it's like, you can read it first...unless there are no comments yet...lol

Duh · Guru

If you look on the CAW website you will see they also sell apps for phones and further down the page for GPS listing all the campsites on CAW, I bought the GPS one (about $20 from memory) to use in conjunction with the book, it can be easy to miss a turn off if using the book only.

03_troopy · Guru

I'm with Dawa after our last trip. We found that all the sites listed would be full by about 3pm and way over crowded. We managed to find quite a few spots by checking out tracks near rivers and bridges etc or just tracks off into the scrub out west.

Duh · Guru

03_troopy wrote:
I'm with Dawa after our last trip. We found that all the sites listed would be full by about 3pm and way over crowded. We managed to find quite a few spots by checking out tracks near rivers and bridges etc or just tracks off into the scrub out west.

Depends on when you use them troopy, off season they are usually ok and still handy to know where they are.

Even during the main season, I found the ones coming across the top from Katherine to Broome ok and good to know the ones that did have toilets, some long drops, others a bit more sophisticated......

03_troopy · Guru

Yes true Vic. On our trip from Newcastle, Mildura, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Mt Isa, Townsville then back home via Emerald, Roma, St George, Walgett, Narrabri, Tamworth and home to Newcastle over the last month there were few uncrowded ones. And even the ones down dirt road up to15K were pretty full. We did find some unlsted ones though.

Duh · Guru

03_troopy wrote:
Yes true Vic. On our trip from Newcastle, Mildura, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Mt Isa, Townsville then back home via Emerald, Roma, St George, Walgett, Narrabri, Tamworth and home to Newcastle over the last month there were few uncrowded ones. And even the ones down dirt road up to15K were pretty full. We did find some unlsted ones though.

I did a trip down south WA earlier in the year, just after school holidays and found it ok too. Cosy Corner was chock a block though, I ended up camping at Shelley Beach (both in CAW) nearby which has a camping fee, however the Rangers were on strike so ended up being a freebie, hardly anyone there on the first day until a hang glider club turned up next day.

Most of the freebies were ok though. From what I have read here I suspect that the freebies over east seem to have a lot more RV campers than most places, although north WA (eg; Broome etc) can get chockers too during the main camping season.....