Strange Behaviour whilst camping

Kiwi,
I've got Two fridges & 4 batteries, I only have to run the genny for a couple of hours during daylight every third or fourth day.
Even then I still wait until everyone else has gone out for the day!

There is just no excuse for ignorance!

The campers I love are the ones with the screaming ferals who let them loose at 5am to ride their bikes around the campground.

I can handle a generator. If it annoys me too much a cup of water in the fuel tank normally shuts it up after a while. Not too many punters will strip down the carby and drain a fuel tank in the dark. Untraceable and generally not devastating to the genny.

Can't do much with a feral though.

Craig

Craig, surely a pleasant request would get better results.

Motherhen

Occasionally, but once the offending party is full of fighting juice discretion is the better part of valour.

Craig

Craig, I take it that the ferals you refer to are children?

Correct.
In the days that I took my kids camping the rule was that there was no leaving the tent to run amuck until after 7.30. Now it seems to be that you pack the kids off to bed early so the parents can get on the silly sauce and drink themselves unconscious whilst their kids having had a good nights sleep are raring to go at 5am. Parents don't notice because they only went to bed 2 hours before and are still out of it. It is no fun having to get up at 6am and untangle some kid from a bike wreck outside your tent, patch them up and wipe away the blood whilst their parents sleep away blissfully unable to be woken. Then later on the parent comes over and tells you that you had no right to administer first aid to their kid as it was only a scratch and I should have come and got them. Sorry, didn;'t have a nuclear bomb handy to wake them.

Now, before I get the 'my kids don't do that' from you all, I am speaking from experience here. I have camped with some very well behaved kids and I must admit that they are in the majority rather than the minority. The worst offenders seem to be 'work groups' who go camping with all and sundry with little regard for those of us who have spent considerable time under canvas. The worst thing is when you have set up camp and then get invaded at about lunch time by 50-60 twits who have little or no regard for others. The worst case I have experienced was a golf club who went camping for a weekend and spent the weekend driving golf balls around the camp ground. I won't even go into what happened after it got dark and the booze started to flow. Lets say the back nine was played under very trying conditions!
For those of you who are considerate to your fellow campers you are welcome to camp near me anytime. But, I don't see why I should have to pull up stumps in the middle of the night just to get some sleep.

Craig

What makes u think HE has a problem hahahaha, its us what look on and shake our heads that have a problem.

Hi Gronk,

I am 33 and MY wife and I are the last of the Yes please, No thank you, generation. Let ladies have the seats open the door etc etc, i agree with you whole-heartedly i run a solar panel and leads if i need light, usaully its of the powerstation i bought from deals direct, and fully charged it looks after one cfl running thru a 300 watt inverter for 3 nights without a hassel!!!
Currently i am looking at making LED light panels that will have a a battery and solar charger that will charge it fully! Might make it with a high and low!!!

I also have a coleman retro cfl light that lasts for three nights on low power!!!

Yes some people are ignorant tossers!!!

Cheers

Gronk you idiot, this is a 4x4 website, you have erroneously suggested the problem be educated with a piece of 4 x 2, 4 x 4 would work much better!!!

And I dont really mean the bit about the idiot hehehe

Hey Bonz, 4x4 lumps are heavy and hurt the hand, can't we just shoot the silly buggers and put them out of our misery for there stupidity? Would be easier????

:op

Chris

Chris, In the light of your wisdom I too join the ranks of IDIOT, you have indeed nailed the solution. In keeping with the 4x4 intention of this website, may I humbly suggest to your omnipotence that we undertake your suggestion in groups of 16.

Bonz, they are spoiling the whole reason why we go bush! So quid pro quo, they make noise and disturb the peace we should be allowed to hunt them down in packs of sixteen and nail there noisy stinking hides to the nearest tree!!!!

Now that would be a sport!!! Shoot ferals!!!LOL

I got the lead!!!

lmao bigtime.

Just goes to show how the truly dedicated 4wd's who like to rough it and are setup don't need all of that garbage!!! We take what we need and a few luxuries and the truly enjoy nature's beauty and surrounds for maxium pleasure!!!

Have a good one Bonz

If you have a medical condition that needs a gennie....and you want to go camping ...then I'm sorry but you will need to go some where on your pat malone !!! Or get enough battery power to last the night !!

I think that's a fair call. You do need to be considerate to your neighbors, no matter where you are. After all,as much as anything else, it's the peace and quiet that we go camping for.

Gday,
Yes SOME people go camping for piece and quiet...some go to get out of town, catch up with mates and let the kids off the leash.
I dont like generators either but you also come across some winging old farts that set up camp next to you and then dictate the camping rules.
I reckon if you dont like what other people do, dont camp next to them...if they camp next to you tell them.
Not evryone's idea of a good camp is the next blokes.

Cheers

G'day Hairy, that's fair comment mate. Agree with all of that.
Camping is a bit like beach fishing...there you are enjoying the peace and quiet, and then some clown wants to set up right next to you, even though there are acres of camp or miles of beach available, and then dictate their right to be there.
Unavoidable to crowd up at times, but then we need to be bit more tolerant and need to respect each others personal space...unfortunately there are those that just don't give a stuff about anyone or anything.
As for them winging old farts LOL.....they give the rest of us old farts a bad name :-))

Cheers

Gday fred,
Hahahaha...sorry about the old fart thing.
But while Im still it my "THIRTIES!!!!" Im going to make the most of it!
Here that your OLD FARTS....THIRTIES!!!!!!!

LOL

Cheers

Funny thing about old it's all relative. My 19yo son thinks he'll be over the hill at 25 so to him Hairy you are almost extinct....LOL welcome to the old farts brigade sonny

Hairy,

Thirties ....... LOL have you started counting backwards. You do more whinging than any old fart on here hahahaha

Probably right Gramps, but just think, when they put a 4 in front of my age, they will put a great in fromt of your name!!!!!

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Waynepd ......extinct!!! Youve got a 19 year old son!! ..........Im suprised we even speak the same language

LOL

Yep there are good and bad gennies but don't know of any that can't be heard at 10pm at night..

Its amazing how much louder they get when you are trying to get to sleep.
Cheers Pete

spread the wings out eh Dazza? why not!!

A generator needed for a winnebago- Im sorry,but I can
understand people needing to use them for tents/ bush camping
but for a winnebago???
We have a caravan with two batteries and one solar panel and did the birdville trip 17 days bush camped, never used the generator.
Sorry- used it once to jump start the nissan after been pulled up for 4 days

It's cool, dude, don't freak out LOL

So ..........I have found an audience for my music ?
(see earlier post)

Mike, their is definitely no gospel, but I would like to think that some things come down to being considerate to others.

Don't get me wrong; if you want to go to a caravan park in the school holidays and then sook about noise and kids etc, well....

On the other hand, if you go somewhere midweek which is quiet with no facilities and you are the first there and the next people set up right next to you and give you no peace, well....

It's very simple from my perspective; if I'm camped at a bush site then please don't camp within two km of me and I'll do the same for you.

Group campsites, Department maintained campsites, campsites accessible by 2WD...? I avoid like the plauge and if I _have_ to do an emergency over-nighter on one I try to raise my d!ckhead tolerance level a notch or two.

Mike Harding