Camp site etiquette?

That's one of the reasons I spent easter at home doing some chores. Public holidays in popular spots are just not enjoyable with the ignoramuses who think we all want to listen to their choice of music 24 hours a day.

Depends if I like the music or not. A bit of Zeplin, floyd or hendrix is magic in the bush if ya chewing on magic mushrooms but yeah some may not appreciate it.

Where the problem is coming from is the upgrading of roads and the RV fashion - any fool can get to most places now and many do just that.

I don't object to the sounds of fun and enjoyment. The sound of kids is great (even the occasional howl).

I don't mind modern generators except through the night when close by.

But I find it really hard to put up with (in descending order):

- the sort of noise and interference created by drunken louts;

- domestic blues;

- the dawn chorus of loud mouths and their %*(&^$# noise (do they really HAVE to bang everything?);

- radios; and

- recorded music.

Could all use headphones for music and radio, Please. Really carries across dead ground and valleys.

EV700

G'day Browny

I can definately relate to that. Thats why we tour and camp in off peak times.
Don't get me wrong I love a bit of happy hour and camp fire comeradery, meeting new people and sharing info etc but I do like my own space as well. What really gets up my nose is 80km of bush wilderness with no bugger in cooee and some idiot has to come and set camp 20 metres away from you.

Cheers

And they call it " Getting away from it all " Yea right!

does this post sound like anyone you know .
nick and eric lolololololololol.
cheers

That is the reason we travel alone and camp away from everyone(except EO get-togethers) because I am one big bad neighbour. Whether it be camping or back at home. I simply go over and tell people that I do not really care for their music and would appreciate it very much if they could turn it down...in a nice way...hahahaha. If we are camped alone at a place and someone else arrives I usually suggest they camp a long way away as I snore, run a diesel generator, fart loudly and play Vivaldi at mega decibels....they normally get the message. On one occassion potential co-campers asked why we had put four jerry cans about 50 metres between our camp and the billabong. We explained that when the crocs knock em over it will give us time to get on top the roofrack and out of harms way. They left without saying g'day.

Another PITA are Fritz's in Britz's with campervans with sliding doors. They just couldnt understand why I lost my cool after they had opened and closed the door about 100 times in a space of a couple of hours. Bloody rude Australians! "Yeah mate, and the best thing you can do is to F..............F and go camp somewhere else".

I must add that we have moved camp on more than one occassion to get away from noisy campers, especially if the numbers were against us.
"Ya gotta know when to hold it"
"Know when to fold it"
"Know when to walk away"
"Know when to run"

With apologies to Kenny Rogers....hahahahaha

Hope you had a good Easter!

Its a big country. I usually try to camp away from others, I mean isn't that the point ...to get away from it all? ;)

Even if it's music you like, it's annoying when it's too loud and the same inconsiderate morons that play it loud are the first one's to get hostile if you say anything to them.

inconsiderate people give psss me off

Australia Day long weekend two years ago at Dwellingup was the absolute end for me. We had tossers actually walking straight through the middle of our camp, parking on tracks and then going for a swim blocking eveyone in and out and people coming and going 24hrs a day. I'm an idiot for thinking it could ever be anything else. Never again.

Off season / mid week for me.

We've been lucky - except for the occasional visit to a caravan park, we haven't been with cooee of anybody. I was a bit worried about privacy taking our holidays in SA in January, but we always found somewhere out on our own. A couple of times, we stopped in a large rest area (Nullabor), but campers were well spread out and fortunately very quiet. Previous trips (WA) we have also found secluded spots all the way. I hope the rest of Oz is that good to us when we get to see it.

A couple of years ago, at the Karajini NP (no choice there - have to use authorised camp sites), first night out there was a large roudy "group" - youth camp or something; kept up the noise most of the night. After climbing up and down the gorges all the next day, they fell silent at sundown the second night!

Apart from one mob of bikes that set up a generator, lights, action, disco and drinking within 10m of my camp on the Coopers (on their way home after Birdsville Races), I haven't really found young people to be a hassle.
One mob of oldies (I was younger then) made me blush at Mataranka. If they'd of been teens I would of scowled at em.
Worst mob were a group on a bus/fly tour of the Cape. We were really tired,( muttering for &^%& sake go to bed under our breaths) but they had a sing along after the cooking sherry. No matter what the song was one old bloke insisted on singing about his bunch of coconuts. It went on and on until around midnight. Met the same guy at the Tip, running past me as I was resting on a rock. The female tour guide struggled up and informed me he was 75. I asked her "How does he do it ?" With an strange look she replied. "I dunno......but I wish he wouldn't !!! )

:)))

I agree with you Browny

BUT it's no good posting about it here after the noise TO the converted.

You've gotta be prepared to belt some loud prickse.

But before I do I simply ask people to turn their music down first.

To 'normal people' I say I love your music but I have young I just put to sleep. No matter what time of day. Most people comply and say sorry.

'Drunkards' are a bit harder. But they always have some mate who tries to settle it before anything really bad starts. And drunkards are drunkenly slow, easy to put down.

Then there's the f^&^#wits who can't be persuaded either way. I do ask them to turn it down but I am ready to move out if need be.

You have to know your limits. I overstep the sometimes, but we learn.

I might ad that I would rather get a smack in the jaw than be some ones bitche.
:-)

More to all and less to none.

iMusty

I do not go bush to listen to other peoples radios or sound systems (or even my own). If people want to listen to their radios then do it quietly so as not to ruin the peace and environment tranquility for others. I love all sorts of music and when this problem occurs I feel like putting on a classical CD (the 1812 overture comes to mind) and play it louder than the offending persons.
There is one thing worse believe it or not. That is a portable Kareoke machine!!!! I will however accept the old guitar around the campfire routine as long as the person playing has some talent.

Well after my weekend camping at a little town called Coobowie on the York Peninsula, all I can say is:- OH FOR THE BUSH!!!

It wasn't the music that had our section of the Camp upset though.

Had a feral group of about 5 families from our neighbors in the Pacific and even the women were p!ssed by 10 o'clock in the morning and they kicked on until they passed out about 3 am, telling anyone who approached them to F*** Off.
Think they must have slept during the afternoon.
The really sad part was that this fine group of native NZ'ers had youngsters of their own. Nice example they are setting for them hey!

I believe the police were called on Friday evening and advised them to behave but they probably can only tell them to quieten down and as soon as the police leave, they just pick up where they left off.

Should have exterminated the vermin I reckon!!!

Being relatively new to modern camping and so far stopping at fairly populated places, our experiences have been good. People spreading out, no loud music beyond a resonable time. At Newnes I thought "oh no" when about 30 cars of younguns pulled up but they camped in an area away from everyone, and went canyoning in the day and played what appeared to be hide and seek games, lol, but not noisly or late into the night before they crashed. With such good headphones available I feel music of any kind can be enjoyed all night long without distrubing others.

I am lucky and can sleep through almost anything BUT I do wake early and start the billy boiling, lol.

We are off to the Snowy Mountains shortly and it will be interesting to see how many others are there between Easter and NSW School Holidays, it should be quiet I think.

Carolyn

I reside in Exmouth WA and are always dumb founded in the winter months at how busy this place gets, especially in the July school holidays, the two caravan parks are full to over flowing, Cape Range National Park is chockers, fuel is $1.30 plus, basic food commodities are expensive, I thought the idea of getting away from it all was just that, have a break from the madding crowd at less expense.

Most people aint smart.

Cheers
Mark

We camped at Yellowdine on Friday night... About 30kms east of Southern Cross. There was no bastard around. We followed a small side track till it ended then kept on going for a few hundred meteres through the scrub. Yup, we played our music for a couple of hours, we enjoyed the bush, we got away from it all. It was pretty too!
Blow going to Dwellingup etc where we would either bebleepoff by other or piss them off ourselves.

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Said it before, say it again, dont go away on long weekends. Its not worth it.
One thing you can do, get a set of air horns, few air tanks on your truck, leave compressors running to keep air tanks full, and tape the horn button on, and go for a walk. That should piss them off.

Postman Pat has the idea stay home.

Wholeheartedly agree Browny. The "I'm going to do what I want and I don't care a damn whether others like it or not" attitude is becoming far too common for comfort. We now carry earplugs for hubby to use as part of our standard camping kit. I'm practically stone deaf in one ear so I just put my good ear on the pillow and I can sleep through most ruckus's. Trouble now is the kids spend a restless night and are grumpy the next day so we not only suffer through th night we continue to suffer throughout the next day. The only viable solution is to get as far out into the bush as time permits. Camping in CVP's or popular campsites within a few hours of town or city is just not worth it unless you're prepared to put up with the selfish faction.

:o( Melissa

Hi Browny, Unfortunately as someone said, you are preaching to the converted.

I have given up complaining and bought a chain saw. I have found that people who like music and burbon at all hours don't like me sawing wood at 5:30 am. ( I used to use an axe but some of the buggers slept through that.)

Also I have to wear earmuffs when i am sawing so I can't hear them complain. They often move that day, getting away from the crazy with the saw. Or they come and complain and we get to dialogue about camping manners.

Skinny

Haven't usually had any problems, until the last night this easter.

We were at Comet Flat, just near Woods Point. People everywhere all weekend, but no noise or annoyance of any kind. Sunday morning, a few people left, and late Sunday arvo, the d**khead brigade roll in. Big cars, music flat out, using their bullbars to knock over small trees in the scrub, to put on the fire. The music started up quite early, so one of the wives went and asked nicely for them to turn it down. They did, begrudgingly, but the rest of the antics stayed. Luckily there were many small trees left, so they went to bed relatively early.

I would agree with the other posters about long weekends, but I find it very difficult to get any time off otherwise, and I figure its better to be in the bush than be at home, even if you share it with lots of people. Besides, 95% of people camping are great people, it the 5% or less that give us a bad name, unfortunately. Usually they are reasonable though, and will stop when asked nicely.

Andrew