Campers, I'm converted

Jimbo, went through the same thing with Tracy when I bought the Black Wolf Turbo Tent!

It's all in a good days spending!!!

Cheers

Wolfie

Gidday,I take it that it didnt rain on your trip???.Be prepared for COLD SHOULDER and HOT TONGUE when it does.
Been there done that,
Seeya Locallaw

Whilst sitting around in the Birdsville Caravan Park a few weeks back, swatting flies, I took a keen interest in all the camper trailers coming in and and being set up. My travelling friends also have a Jayco Hawk. Bloody hell...I think you must spent half your holiday packing up and repacking the CT. "Oh it doesn't take long" was the catchcry. An hour to an hour and a half to either set up or pack up I took note.

I guess they are ideal for families but they are not for me...I couldn't be bothered with a CT..too much hassle.

Welcome to the club Jimbo, they are good aren't they we'll never go back either.

Now ya gotta get one of these buggers too, nothing like a hot shower at the end of the day.

This post was brought to you by my Helton heat exchanger.

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Baz.

Hey Jimbo
Like everything there are swings and round-a-bouts. CTs have there place and this is certainly not if really difficult terrain. Spent more than a few hours getting vehicles towing CTs out of trouble - especially across rivers. But then again for a trip into most NPs where you are setting up a base - they are great.
Cheers
Pete

Amen

And ours has got zip-on walls around the awning. Came in very handy at Flinders last weekend after all the rain, heaps of flies. Sitting under the fly-proof verandah made feeding the baby much easier, and I tempers didn't fray like they can when too hot inside the camper and too flyie outside!

Howdy mate!

I was anti-camper until end of year holiday last year up to Bundy!

Hired out an offroad soft floored camper, didn't like the soft floor much, but on a whole, what a difference.

Just purchased the aussie swag camper with the hard floor, takes exactly 48 seconds to level, unclip and fold out. A further 1 minutes 34 seconds was spent preparing bed, and going to engel in back of patrol for a coldie. Exactly 54 seconds later I was sitting down on the chair, looking at the sunset sipping on a cold pil...

Ahhh, no poles, no wrapping up and folding up, no wet tent inside the car etc etc.

Cheers

Chris.

Horses for courses.

For a family . . . bees knees.

We can have the CT setup to sleep in , for a quick stop , in roughly 10 minutes. Probably 15 to pack away.

For a proper setup for a couple of days , may take about 30 to 40 mins , and about same to pack away.

For us though . . . took just as long , if not longer , to setup camp with tents etc , and not nearly as comfortable.

What sort of tent you got? :-) How Much?

Any tent which gave us the room of our CT would be so big it would be a bugga to carry, unpack and set up. Let alone the queen size bed, kitchen and storage space for food, gear, esky tools etc.
And I'd much rather carry all that stuff in a trailer than in and on a 4WD
My screen name is not Camper for nothing.
Cheers
Camper

Hiya Jimbo,

Welcome to the club. Campertrailers aren't selling like hotcakes around the country for nothing! Different strokes for different folks but we love our CT. We'd been looking at them for years from the time they were just starting to get around but could never afford one. Then back in the late 90's we regularly camped with a family of 5 who had a very good DIY campertrailer. Camping with them was a real eye opener and convinced us that a CT was the way to go so less than a year later we bought one and haven't looked back since.

We're onto our 2nd CT now so we had the experience from the first one to be more specific about what we wanted 2nd time around. Even so, we've still made a few minor mods and additions. Thought we just about had the perfect set-up too but I have an idea forming a shelf at the bottom of the kids bunks. That's half the fun of CT...you got something else other than the 4WD to tinker with now LOL.

:o) Melissa