Caravan Pk Entertainment

Doug

I guess I am lucky that you didnt run into us on our travels. The way that Tracy and I argue first about where to put the camper and then which way it should face would have kept you amused for hours Im sure.

i must admit that it's part of our entertainment aswell in caravan parks, boy you see some sights that make you wonder.
one trip to Warnambol a car towing a camper pulls up on the road next to were their site was, out gets the wife opens the wagon and pulls out a chair and carries it to the nearest tree and parks herself there, while hubby tries to then back the camper into the site, he was doing well until he found the only tree on the site with the back of his camper, everyone including us were yelling for him to stop and running towards him, which he didn't, one bloke who was closer than us went and banged on his car to get him to stop as he was still trying to accelerates backwards (jammed up against the tree) doing a far bit of damage to the camper, finally he got the message stopped and checked out the damage, and his wife still sitting on her chair never even moved or spoke and where she was sitting had a better view of what was happening than anyone else, it makes you wonder alright!
and those couples that the husband does all the backing, hooking up, peg pulling- the works, while the wife just stands there or yacks to the neighbours, or tells him how he should be doing it, it's then that i say to my hubby aren't you glad that i'm not like that, as we share all aspects of camping, perhaps that's the way the others enjoy it i don't know.
chris.

We use the hand held radio also with no probs plus the rear view camera helps. Our biggest problem is selecting a site when Alternative camping where we wander around trying for that elusive perfect side. You know shade, flat, with somewhere for the solar panel to go out in the sun, with any wind to the van rear. God it's a hard life ain't it.

G'day Doug,

After a lot of years we work on hand signals. The boss uses her thumb to point left and right and the old faithful stop if I lose the plot. There are a few other hand signals she uses at times which we never discussed previously. It's all good though and the old portable UHF is great as well.

I was camped beside my brother about 12 months ago at Yamba when a guy coming onto the site at the back of him actually backed through the end of my brothers roll out awning and did a heap of damage. Lucky it wasn't happy hour as one of us usually sat there with a beer in the afternoon.

Have a good one.

Similar entertainment can be had at most local boat ramps on a sunny Sunday morning. Best to go mid morning. The blokes who know what they are doing have all gone out early but around 8am onwards there are the complete nobs that seem to come out and struggle to keep it all straight as they attempt to back the trailer down to the wet stuff.

Then they faff around getting the winch undone and remembering that they forgot the back tie-downs so have to pull it out again or push the boat off after forgetting the front rope or using one that is too short.

Then there is the retrieval when they have to reverse an empty trailer down the ramp (where did it go??? I can't see the damn thing!!!).

Great viewing!