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should have one for people with screaming kids or barking dogs

Gooday,
Despite the last comment I think your idea has merit.
Would be happy to see it discussed further. Perhaps a generator manufacturer may be happy to sponsor it, EG-: bright yellow colour with words, Have Generator, may use. The makers name would need to be low key.
Cheers, Boroma 604.,
as I sit here 5Km out of Mount Magnet amongst the Mulga as I type this.

awsome........ i will be putting up a flag every camp site, get a nice quite site as everyone will move away.....
Love it, good thinking, i wont have a gen set by the way...

As for the flag for having kids.... that has merit as i would rather camp next to campers with kids any day ..... if you want nice quite kids when camping stay at home as kids need to have fun to ya know :-)

Hi KiwiRoss & Cushla

WE travel with our gen set in the trailer, our grandkids and 2 dogs, so I have all bases covered. Many people are surprised to learn that I have a gen set, as I have set up a muffle box in my trailer, it can be barely heard. It is a Honda 4.5 kW. so not small.

I would carry such a flag, and attach a pair of kids shorts and a dog coallr, that should cover it. Noone is going to tell me that my grandkids cannot play and enjoy themselves, if they make some noise, I know they are not getting into mkischief.

Cheers

Marc

Yeah ,great idea , and why not also have a flag designating that your a wowser , or one for drunks ,or one for richard craniums , or a flag to designate that you pack up camp before sunrise making all the noise possible ,, yeah great idea.

Rosco - You are kidding - Right?

ear plugs or an ipod works for me

Funny no one has mentioned the most annoying thing in camping areas ... Kids on Mini Bikes!

You cant get many to put a sand flag when travelling through dunes,how wiill you get them to carry one for gennys

I live on the north coast NSW 25k up from Coffs Harbour.
This morning I was woken up by damn kangaroos fighting in the backyard a crows yarking in the trees and fruit bats sqawbling in the eucalypt flowers.
I NEED A HOLIDAY !!!!

What would this really achieve even if it was workable?

We will still having people using generators, and those who want to use them have every right to provided it is allowed in the area they are camped and they are ‘reasonable’ in their approach to its use.

Generally, we have found most people considerate in the way they approach camping, including those using generators, and those whom we have found aren’t considerate (very few) are most unlikely to ‘raise the flag’ to tell you that.

You can control where you camp, and if you are bothered by generators to the extent you need to be advised of their presence, simply assume everyone has one and set your camp far enough away not to be a problem for you, I think this is a far more practical approach........

Cheers, The Landy

How about one for Victorians and Kiwis!
LOL

G'day
We don't put up a flag but do the next best thing so others know that we have a generator ( a quiet one Yamaha )

Its called a orange 240 volt power cord plugged into side of van and ran to generator location , even if it is still locked in the tow vehicle.

If they cannot work it out from that there is no helping them

Garry

it has been a while since i have been camping but since then it seems that kiwis, victorians, nsw rl supporters, and old pharts now go camping as well, has having a drink at camp sites since been banned ?????
What is SOOO hard about all camping togeather, crack a beer (or rum as i would) and enjoy the company even if it is kids, a gen set hummin, serenity of a little kid havin the time of his life on his first quad ......
If THAT is not why we as aussies go camping then what thhe hell is it NOW cause it has changed ??????

Go and have a good hard look at some really old photos of camping and caravan parks in AUSSIE (NOT yank land please) ..... every one has a drink in hand, all happy as pigs in poo, kids runnin everyware, bikes, boats, things runnin everyware ....... now you cant even FARRT in a park without some one havin a whinge.
WAKE UP AUSSIES, we are startin to lose touch of the real world .. before it all gets handed over to parks and we lose it ...

How about a smokers flag - so I can camp upwind of them (even if it is right next to the campers with the generator flag....)

How about a 'INTOLERANT' flag ???

Wouldn't want to camp within 'coo-ee' of one o' them....................


;-))

Well I reckon the noisy kids,will drown out the gen, the drinkers will drown out the kids, the wowsers will chase the smokers,while we are having a beer we will find out race,creed,football side & poltical views, those who don't have a beer you'll know they are leaving early and we will just beat the nissan drivers in cricket.
Don't be so shy - Say Gidday ' mate you got a gen ?'

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We always work on the theory of who ever is there first has the most rights. If we pull into a camp spot and someone else is there already with a gennie then they have a right to run it. If I'm there first and someone else comes in after me with a gennie I expect I have a right to piece and quiet. Same with kids, dogs, tvs, motor bikes, old people and anything else I can't think of. A little bit of respect of other people goes a long way.

Josh

Thanks for all the posts,certainly got you all going,boy I love this site.
Rosco

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!


I am your worst nightmare, I use a generator and have 2 beautiful screaming kids......wouldn't have it any other way...


Take a couple of tea spoons of concrete and toughen up princess!!!

If you can hear someones Gennie, then you are camped too close and need to move away!!!

A couple of camping surveys I've read showed that the noise most disliked is vehicle doors being repeatedly closed late at night or in the early morning. Apparently there's something about the noise and how it travels (low frequency) that makes it really noticeable.

I visited the four wheel drive show at Eastern Creek in Sydney today and I must say I was impressed by just how little noise the Honda four-stroke generators made.

Whilst there was back ground noise around these things are very quiet to the point that if they were ran during daylight hours it would be hard to imagine anyone being bothered by it. If you were you would be camped far too close.

And I understand that wasn’t the thrust of this post…but this was as observation I made.

Cheers, The Landy