All time favourite camp spot

There have been many memorable campsites but the one at Sheepyard Flats along side the Howqua River(Vic) always come to mind as a favourite.
I stayed there in xmas in 1993 ,the weather was beaut, the water crystal clean,and the tranquillity was hard to describe.

MMM Hairs tells me it's your place and why,cause he can't find he's way home LOL.cheer's GREENDOG

Halls Gap in victorias south west, go there every year and can walk thru the surrounding bushlands and rock/mountain climb for weeks, feels like you are on another planet. i do like many many other places around this wonderful country but this one is so close also. cheers Paul

Manning Gorge. 1996-1998. Had many enjoyable, memorable, romantic moments there when I was younger. Watched one of the commets there easter 97 I think. Great swimming, awesome falls just after the wet. Great place it was.

Any were in the Flinder's,but not the Pound to commercialized for me and there are heaps of better camp spots out side the pound.cheer's GREENDOG

Mark,

Any where on a clear nigh,t laying in a swag watching the stars.

Sorry I can't be more specific but as long as I have the Southern Cross in sight I an a happy camper.

Wayne

Windchester, on the Wongungarra River.

Hi Mark.We still return to the same place after 41 years.Lake Conjola, NSW South Coast. Just a great place to have a quiet rest,Or get involved in fishing,prawning, campfires,swimming, surfing, water skiing, bushwalking. Country life with City conveniences.(but try not to tell to many as it is getting more and more popular) Bob.

Mark G,

A little place called Gullmarrad near McLean in NSW.

There is a great private camping area there, just 1 acre big, but ya can go ferel without any worries.

Cheers,

Cruiser .

Trough Well in the WA Goldfields. Check it out in Places on this site.

The photos are mine.

History. Peace & quiet. A natural meadow. Plenty of campsites.

Just outstanding.

I suppose for us, Cathedral Ranges National Park near Buxton in VIC has a special place.

We first went there well before we were married, and some 27 years on we still have very fond memories.

Haven't been there since our first was born 23 years ago, perhaps we should.

Jim.

Isolation, great fishing, perfect sunsets.
And if I told you all where it is the 1st two reasons for going would soon dissapear ;-))

Rocky River near Tenterfield in NNSW. 20 years ago camping on private property with the entire river to ourselves. Used to camp there every Easter growing up. Lovely fast flowing fresh water with great rock pools and canoeing spots. Gold panning was quite fruitfull some years too.

2nd favourite spot was the top end of Fraser Island 25 years ago. Would camp for a month and only see another set of wheel tracks on the beach every second day when camped on the beach near Ocean Lake turn off. It was like being the only people on the entire island. Went there last Christmas and it has changed too much. Dont care now if I never go back. The introduction of the boardwalks made it too easy for high volumes of people to get to Orchid Beach and higher. Was great fun when it used to take 8 hours to get from the Inskip Barge to Waddy Point.

Favourite spot now is our own secret 1100ha peice of rainforest paradise about 90 minutes from Bundaberg. Full of wildlife, waterfalls, cliffs, gorges etc. It is very rugged country and would take 4 or 5 days just to hike the boundary. Now I go camping every fortnight with no rules about campfires and no risk of being beside annoying campers. Kids are now learning to drive in an old MQ SWB and are also learning about being the caretakers responsible for the long term viability and protection of such a pristine and sensitive environment. It is such an important lesson for the kids to learn that future generations are relying on us to manage the property effectively or it could be lost forever.

BW

Lake Waikaremoana, Urewera National Park NZ, 34 years ago.

5 mates, 5 canoes.
Spent 10 days exploring every arm, stream and creek.
Sleeping bags and a ground sheet, we was tuff then.
Chivas Regal was only $11 a bottle.
Rainbow trout for breakfast, lunch and tea.
Swapping trout for fresh wild pork and venison with local hunters.
The water from the streams, filtered through moss was as sweet as nector.
All the stars in the universe would come and sit over us every night.
Possum spotting with our 'Big Jims'.

Suppose it was a cross between Deliverence and Stand By Me.

Awesome place, and wilderness area, probably filled with caravans, boats, resort and shops now.

Cheers....Lionel.

Mark,

and like, I'd tell you ......... as if !!!! Hahahahahahahaha

The best is by Camp Creek on Pungalina Station, NT. Isolated, scenery to die for, a creek without crocs, heaps of birds, really untouched environment.
Second best - Seisia, near top of Cape York. Views out over Torres Strait and islands to die for.
Third best - Adels Grove, NW Qld - down by Lawn Hill Creek, in the Grove.

All of Australia



Cheers

WellI guess it varies but my best memories are from a camp at Buandik in the Grampains, its stuffed now with tomber carpark bits and cordoned off areas but it was idyllic

Has to be the Coorong (SA Murray mouth area) for me but I go there now in trepidation given the low water inflows as a result of drought and greedy inefficient irrigators upstream!

Pennefather River. No road, just a track throught the paper bark swamp.

If you got bogged someone had to stand on a bonnet looking for mud gecko's while the vehicle got extracted.

No facilities and at peak times maybe 2 or 3 groups that you hardly ever saw!

Fantastic fishing, mud crabs the size of dinner plates, tiger sharks as long as tomorrow and bloody big mud gecko's!

I was given Ron and Viv Moon's Cape York book a couple of years ago and apparently the place now has a ranger station, camp grounds and a solar shower! That book also reckons there is a bridge on the Wenlock, go figure!

Geoff

Hi Mark

This should be an interesting thread.

I agree with Wayne as to the very best. Just to camp under the stars in some remote location miles from anyone is the very best Australia can offer.

To pick places:

This year's favourite was the King Edward River camp in the Kimberley. We shared it with others - all good company. The location on a clear pool of the King Edward River was delightful. Good swimming, in the pool and by cascades, and glorious sunsets.

My favourite on the Eyre Peninsular was Lipson Cove. We had this lovely bay to ourselves, although the nesting terns are rather noisy. Again the feeling of remoteness.

So many wonderful places - the few we have been to and so many yet to be experienced.

Motherhen

elm beach
sturt national park
secret birdie
running creek
near fort grey behind the dunes a bit south
loyalty beach
mornington wilderness park
bell gorge

All the best
Eric

Black Springs in the Coffin Bay National Park does it for me...Crystal clear water to swim in, excellent camping area and great fishing...what more could you want...in fact we are heading there for a week or two after christmas....

Curtis Is off the coast from Gladstone Qld. Been 20 yrs since I was there but I would lay money not much has changed, very few venture up the island and camp. Many go there and stay at a small village on the south end of the island but that is where most of them stay.

I recall a very memorable camp at Clayton's wetlands down the Birdsville track with a couple of good mates off this forum. That is also another spot I would love to go back to, maybe just to revisit a good night on the turps LOL!!

Posting this response from a secluded little spot 15 odd K's from West Wyalong, here with a few mates called Jim and Beam. Stars out, smiley face in the sky from last night is now a sad face (Mars-Venus and the moon) and life can't get much better apart from the fact that I am getting paid to do this :-))

Oh yeah, Cold Chisel playing on the CD player too hehehehehe

CYA Regards Trevor.

Well if i told you that on here then it wouldnt be my favourite for very long would it . Seriously though its fraser in winter . BEEEEAUTIFUL .

DRAFTYS CAMP on the Warren River SW OZ.

Canoeing and Bream fishing on the River, 4wding in the dunes to pristien white sandy beaches with surf and salmon fishing!

dam!! I want to go camping now, but I'm stuck on a stinkin oil rig!

Evan

Burdekin River NQ at the junction of Douglas Ck in the 1980's

Stop in at for a beer on the way at Hidden Valley ... before the place was yuppified.

Poke around the old mine sites, talk to some of the old miners, good camping & hiking - peace & quiet.

Like most places Ive enjoyed around Australia ... not game to go back now and see the "improvements"

Katarapko Creek if we can't make it further from Adelaide

As much as I dont have much to say for SA the best camping I ever had was on Brown's Beach, Eyre Peninsula, fishing for salmon in winter.

Got there in the arvo, fished, drank port and smoked cigars on the beach with some mates til very late until swagging it in the dunes with a chandelier of stars - stunning.

Awoke to the sounds of breakers and the most beautiful and crisp dawn I have ever seen and fished some more.

That was a good weekend.

Anywhere is Aussie is great where you can find a place with peace and tranquility.
We try to explore somewhere different all the time for new ventures. The beach, the bush or the highlands, it doesn't matter. This holiday break we are going to explore Tassie for just over 3 weeks. Any suggestions on some good camping areas. We are starting from Smithton and Arthur River on 25/12 and then down the west coast. Your suggestions would be welcomed. Regards John & Pill

My best is a place called Tookaninna waterhole north of Oodnadatta where the Andado track crosses the Alberga. Two km of crystal clear water, big gum trees and pure, clean sandy beach. No amenities, no fees, no fences and no one else for 200 km.
Geoff from outbacksecrets.com

Pineapple Flat, Howqua river area, lake Cobbler, Buckland valley........
Not a good way to start the day at work thinking of favourite camping spots.........will be most unproductive

Gday all

all these replies are great.........it just goes to show that we live in THE best country in the world for enjoying what we have in Aus.

its just getting out there in the open air with the family and just enjoying it all.

cheers.

There are plenty off course but i certainly liked my time at Kalumburu where the fishing is great.

Kind regards

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Just being "camping " is a joy, anywhere. I do mourn the fate of my previous all time favourite....on the beach at Fraser. Our first trip in early 90s saw a pristine place, not a struck match as far as
pollution went. The last time in early 00s saw a rubbish tip,
complete with feral backpackers tearing about day & night, their
excrement & rubbish marking every stop. Hardly a sign of any
real progress of the human race. I clean every site of as much
rubbish as I can & hope others will do likewise.......oldbaz.

i agree, went to inskip point after we got back from our honeymoon, Teena ( wife) and me plus my sisters 2 youngest went for a week or so camp, had to clean the area around us first then had to help a guy in a short wheel base get his fourby around with a trailer, then helped a young bloke with dog fix his truck and help push him out of the sand patch, then taught said young bloke to drive on sand with reducedt yre pressures, watched six other people get bogged in front and cleaned up any mess we made and others people messes. Teen and i will be up there cause my sisters place will be chocka block with people for chrissy.

If anyones interested in dropping by for coffee/ tea we will be at the dorrigo camp site, hopefully, as i don't have a fourby, just look for the laser in my pic's can't miss it or the worlds smallest trailer.

so will be seeing anyone up there??

All of the above!!!!! - just out of here!!!!
jules