An illegal campsite please !

"What have we done to ourselves ? Because nobody wants to take responsibility for their own actions we have gone the way of the Americans and started suing whoever was to "blame" because we have to "blame" somebody. We now have large portions of our lives legislated and large portions of our country fenced, controlled and policed... what happened to enjoyed ? "

I could not agree more with this if I tried. The world has gone crazy and we are simply over regulated. Laws for this, laws for that, for everything.

I don't disagree with having laws by which society has to have in order for us to live by, but do we need as many laws as we have. If we aren't regulated by national laws, its state laws and then local government laws, and the aren't always in agreement, especially in local government.

Anyway, I wish you luck and hope someone does come forward to offer you the use of their property, and I commend you for being willing to give something back to the owner, instead of just wanting or expecting everything for nothing as a lot of people seem to be these days.

Crikey TAZ,
I know a great spot that I can do all that and its only 50 minutes away from home and very remote - not likely to be another camper within 10 kilometres, OOPS - sorry - it's here in Tassie.

Good Luck - OH ! by the way - What are you doing in Cantberra?

Cheers
John E

Taz,

Have you been to Shallow Crossing on the Clyde River near Batemans Bay. It is a private camp ground the you can take pets have your boat in the river though not sure about the mini bike thing. It's a great big open grassy area and worth a look....Here is there phone number, give them a call and ask about the mini bikes....

myhome.ispdr.net.au/~camping/default.htm

Shallow Crossing Camping Ground, Shallow Crossing Ph: 44781183

Yep know the spot its about an hour east of .............. Then turn down S...... H...... road and you end up at the gate the key for the gate is the box on the left.

All the best
Eric

Hi Taz,

We are lucky enough to have all that you have mentioned less than half an hour from our home near Bundaberg.

All of the campsites are less than 10 metres from the waters edge. There is no need to travel for good fishing as the best spots are right in front of the camp. We take our tinny, and motorbikes for the kids although it is all sand tracks and a mate has a couple of quad bikes which work better in the sand. The camping is free and very quiet as it is a dead end. There is only a small window of about 3 or 4 hours to get in and out because of the tide so this tends to keep a lot of day trippers out of the area too.

There is heaps to do as we are camped on a narrow point beside the river with nice safe swimming for the kids and about 400 metres behind us is a long white sandy beach on the ocean side. I wouldn't call it a surf beach as it is protected to some extent by Fraser Island but it does have swell with breaking waves. You can also head upstream in your boat for about 10km with plenty of side channels into the mangroves for good fishing/crabbing too. Plenty of live bait to use and using castnets to catch it in Qld is legal. Also plenty of yabbies to pump. It is safe here to swim all year round as the stingers don't really start until Agnes Water/1770 and Crocs don't start until about Gladstone.

Best of all we can still have a camp fire. WOW!!! We camped there in September school holidays and there was only 4 other camps in about 2km. The area is deemed a conservation area and the QNPWS have a sign up banning domestic animals. There doesn't seem to be any other rules except for only being allowed to drive north of the 4wd beach access point as to the south it leads into a residential area with a designated and patrolled swimming zone.

We will be there over Christmas with friends coming up from NSW and will keep using it until they over regulate this area too and then continue the ongoing search for something similar. Our back up plan is that we have a small yacht and can sail to the western beach on Fraser Island and beach the yacht in places where it cannot be accessed by 4wd. This way we get our remote undisturbed camping in a pristine environment and it costs us nothing for barge fees, 4wd permit, or camping permit (sleep on boat) and even the cost of getting there is free. It takes about 8-10 hours to sail there. We can walk 500 metres into freshwater lakes that are probably only visited by half a dozen people per year and if the weather really blows up we can shelter inside one of several creeks on the western side of the island, one of which (Wathumba Ck) even has toilets. It is sad to say that this may be one of the only ways in the future to access good, clean, quiet campsites without to many rules.

All this sounds great but I don't know about driving all the way from Canberra though???

Cheers,
Brett

Hi there
dont know if this is what you want and it aint remote but if ya come up to syd and drive about 30 min out of windsor on your way to wisemansferry you will come accross a place called Pacific park it is a water ski park on the hawksbury river so that covers the water side of things and there is a motorbike park there also now its not bush camping but all the same you still camp and I have seen pets there ( dont know if they should have been ?) and I think they just built new shower and toilets there also .
ask for Dave ....(02) 45791019.

regards J.B.