Ceduna Camping

Thursday is not a good day to be in Ceduna.(pension day)
We were there for the oyster festival last Sept. Had a great time BUT we had a break in in the mobile home parked next to us while the occupants were sleeping.(There was a group of 5 cops in a cabin about 20 metres away)
There was a sports carnival on during the festival and it attracted a huge amount of indigeonous spectators from the area. So it was constant boozing and the resultant antisocial behavior was disastrous. 99.9 percent of the locals are well behaved good people but be prepared for the odd bad few.

You tourists amaze me , if your going to bypass towns because of hearsays then stay home and have a home invasion , So now it's Ceduna too , along with Wilcannia,Bourke,Walget,Newman,Halls Creek,Meekatharra,Mt Isa,Normanton,Pt Augusta, Alice Springs,Tennant Creek,and on and on the list goes, go out and enjoy our Country , be more vigilant and look after your property , The whites can be just as ruthless in the light fingered antics,

bbuz

3 km along the beach to the south is the Ceduna Shelly Beach CP. It is on 55 acres of land, mostly vegetated sand dunes. the facilities are unusual in that they are spread around the park and consist in the main of hand basin, shower and pedestal in the one room (3 rooms to a block.) There were a few camping sites over the big dune with ocean views last time I was there, however by a quick look at the FPA listing they have "Luxury Spa Beach Front Villas @ $180.00" that may have displaced them

It is just too far out of town for the rascals to worry about. The road out to it is sealed but turns to gravel shortly after that and it does not go to indigenous housing so I have not seen any of our burdders out a long it.

PeterD

i have an uncle who lives there and he said it no problem, yes pension day is best to stay clear of but all in all its no different to most other places. just don't leave anything lying around and don't walk around by yourself at night. (you would'nt do this at any new place you did not know)

Sadly, Ceduna has not been a nice place to stay for me for years. Call me a naieve tourist, or a bl**dy idiot, but after a non violent but unpleasant episode several years ago, I now avoid the place.
The Alice I'm not phazed by, and Halls Creek on pension night is noisy. But Ceduna ? A beautiful area with some great people. Sadly there are also people there who are not great, especially after a few drinks.
Now one could easily say that it's no different to many places elsewhere, but my personal experiences suggest otherwise.
I've only stayed there about a dozen times. Maybe I've been unlucky or stupid.

Exercise a tad more care when you're in the area, and try and have a great time.

What amazes me is that i was'nt born here but have been here since i was two..I own properties and have worked hard up until my injury which was'nt my fault..

Now i'll be buggered if i'll let some a-hole intimidate me to the point of not feeling at home..As far as i'm concerned this is my home..If i want to walk at night i do..I want to go here or their i do...

I'll never go down without a fight if provoked and i'm sure a lot of this forum would'nt/ dont let these ratbags ever control your life ....

My grandfathers brother had a double barrel shotgun under his bed concerned that some moari was going to jump his back fence and he had in his mind that he'll blow the black bastards head off in his words... sixty odd years of worry for what-something that never happened !

Go where you like and see what you want to see !

cheers

Sorry Buz, but I agree with many other comments, get out there and enjoy.
My cousin owns the big 4 caravan park in Ceduna, and he is an ozzie white person, and has no chain mesh fences to lock you in.
Hundreds of parks have fences anyway, usually to stop white people sneaking in to get up to no good !
I highly recomend a visit to his park, in fact here is his number, he is approachable, ring him (Brian) and talk to him 08-8625 2150.
He is also an ambulance volunteer, so if you want to hear stories, try that subject if you think camping in a caravan park is going to be a problem!
I will be there for a week in June with 2 of my grandsons and I feel as safe there as lots of other places.
Yes from time to time there have been a few problems in Ceduna, but hell Adelaide, Sydney, Alice Springs, etc etc etc all have problems. I feel as safe parking my rig in Ceduna as I do in Adelaide.
Ceduna has a large police pressence and is as safe as any other multi cultural town.
Yes you could get broken into or approached with not so good intent, but that could happen in any town in any state, just depends what lowlife lives or visits there.

Cheers Pesty

Ceduna a problem town? What a Bloody load of rot! Some of you fella's need to get off your proverbial bum and experience the World!

BBUZZ, don't listen to all this piffle. You'll be ok in Ceduna. have a good trip.

Regards

Kim

I have been to Wiluna, Wilcannia, Ceduna and Bourke. Ceduna is no problem at all. I lived just out of town here for 18 months. Always asked for a smoke by the locals pension day or not. When i was a smoker I just never smoked in the street...........simple. Ceduna has a safer feel to any of the other towns i mentioned but i would stay in any of them.

spoke to quite a few shop owners back in the 80's in ceduna, they said they wish there was "open season" once a year! Just what i heard.

I stayed a couple of nights in Ceduan on my way around Australia last year (April) without any dramas. First two nights were just out of town right on the coast. Sadly, there was a bit of a mice plague, so we packed up and headed into town where we stayed in the Big 4 mentioned earlier. That was excellent!!!

But in tha time we had no difficulties, nobody approached us for anything, and we wandered the streets (in daylight hours) quite happily. We did not walk aroundof a night because we were having dinner and resting.

Go there, stay, and enjoy it .. I doubt you will have any troubles.

Jack

This is to all those superior people that say I'M NOT RACIST, BUT...

As I said above there is over 20.000.000 people living in this country.

1% of these people are blackfellas.

Hypatheticaly Now, let's say 5% of the population go out on pay day and get bleep faced and make bleep s of themselves ( I believe this is a understatement ).

If EVERY blackfella got drunk on pay day that would mean 200.000 people, that means there is still 800.000 whitefellas getting drunk on the same day as well.

Geez, try walking down Pitt street Mall in Sydney at lunch-time. At least a dozen approaches from people trying to get you to sign up to some charity, then there are the people on almost every street corner begging for money (many are not genuine - just making a living out of it).......and that is before we start on crime!

I'll be thropugh Ceduna next year and wil be sure to check out the Big 4.

In all my years and many hundreds of thousands of kilometres around this country I have never been hassled by anyone.

When I lived in the NT I always stopped for the 'cuz'nz' when they were broken down on the road. Have pushed many a Falcon or Commodore with the bullbar for miles...lol

One day a dark figure ran out of the bushes in to the middle of the road near Yuendemu on the Tanami. I stopped. He wanted a lift in to Alice. We were driving a Suzuki. I said sorry there is no space but he looked deeply into the little car. I suggested if it was that urgent he could sit on the bonnet for the next couple of hundred clicks and I would tie his hands to the bullbarso he didnt fall off. With a wry smile he declined.

I have been to Wilcannia on a few ocassions. Have stopped by the river to rest. Have stopped to refuel on pension day, stopped there at night, and have never had an issue with anyone. Ceduna is a lovely sea side town and I have passed through there a number of times as well. Have never had an issue with people there.

I suppose I am used to seeing and dealing with indigenous people and many others of other cultures. City folks going away from their home base into the big wide world are fed bigoted, incorrect stories from bigoted people and they then come to the wrong conclusions.

But it is good to ask the question here on ExplorOz as you may learn something about your country and rest assured that it is by far the safest place to travel in the world.

Cheers

From everyone's travels..who has really been accosted, molested, damaged, threatened in fear of their lives?

I know I haven't and I've stayed in Borroloola, Halls Creek, Newman, Bourke, Top Springs, Fitzroy Crossing,Kalumburu, Seisia, Burketown, Wiluna etc etc... I've stopped for fuel or lunch at Wilcannia and other places with so called "bad names".

We've also always stopped for anyone along the road that needed help no matter colour or creed.

I might be incredibly naive, but I've never been in real danger and never heard of anyone else. I mean real danger, not just imagined, or hearsay.

Just go out there with an open mind and enjoy.

Viv