Do unattended tents "walk"

Haven't been anywhere. As I said we were novices. What do you mean by "least of your worries"?

Hey Bob I brought that DVD the other day, haven't watched it yet.

dont bother its crap.

It's ok vk1dx...they are talking about an Australian Movie ... a bloke goes around killing backpackers and such. :-)

Thanks Kev. Thats what we were hoping would be the case.

Also reading a blog not too long ago and the writer was complaining about their site being invaded while they were out. Moved their things to set up their own.

Is this common or just a rare happening?

If you keep all your gear within your allotted camping spot then your gear should not have to be moved for other campers to set up.

Cheers Kev

If you set up your camp in the middle of an area that's big enough for two (making the two half-camps either side useless), there are quite a few people who will move your gear.

Hi vk1dx,
It might have been my blog that you were reading about our camp site being "taken over" while we were away. That happened at Middle Lagoon last year, the "invaders" were, by the look of them, very novice campers trying to get out of some very strong wind.

If you leave a tent set up you should be fine if you do as others suggest and lock valuables up. In our case we sleep in the vehicle and have a tent that attaches off the back of same which of course is packed up when we move the vehicle. The only way we have to "claim" our spot is to leave out table and chairs, washing etc. Plus we were close to our friend's rig, but on this occasion all of that didn't mean anything. But it was a minor incident and no harm done.

Relax and enjoy GRR, it is a wonderful trip. In all our years of travelling we have never lost anything.

Cheers

Hi John

Yes you are correct. It was your, or should I say Val's, report on your trip up there.

I was going to talk to you about this subject last meeting but as usual it "slipped" my mind.

Hows you trip looking? We got the drop down fridge slide last week and that was the last item we needed to complete the setup for the first trip. Two weeks are we are "not here". You should be very close by now also.

I know this is well in advance but do you know anyone planning to go from here up to the Cape?

Phil and Sue

try: vk1dx@bigpond.net.au

Yeah Thought that would be the case. I just dont want to turn up at one of the camp grounds at 5PM and find them full.

Do you know if the camps fill up this time of year? We are there mid June for 10 days on the GBR.

We are more interested in looking at the place as opposed to camping and don't want to spend half the time sitting down in the camp.

Eg: Windjana, Drsedale, Mitchells Falls, Honeymoon Beach, Home Valley and El Questro (camp not cabin - too rich for us).

Hope I am not bothering you Rod.

Phil

Things do tend to get a bit hectic at that time of year. If in doubt ring ahead as per normal. Or simply book before you go. There's nothing worse than finding no room at the Inn.

No your not bothering me Phil. I can't help you very much as its very rare that I go/use these public/group camp grounds. When I go bush its in out of the way bush places thus away from the masses.

went off and read about the movie "Wolfe Creek" and the reasong behind the movie. Thats one for you Bob. You owe me a beer mate.

You mean that you were snoring so loud that the errm, "vibrations" set off the alarm????

Wow!!!

;-))

We have spoken to a lot of people travelling and the only time anyone has had trouble is in caravan parks or parked in a carpark near a town doing a tourist walk ie out to the end of a jetty. Mongrels in town know you are visiting and watch for you to leave. In the bush we have left our stuff out and never had a thing flogged. If anything it is the opposite and other campers help out. We have had people move our solar panel for us while we were away so it gets sun all day.
As said early, the people in these areas are there for the same reason as you.
We did the Gib last year, you will love it.

Josh

Hi Ed

We can sleep in the back of our LC. All "extra" seats have been remooved and there is enough room for a double bed in there now.

Anyway I put the key under the pillow and must have pushed the "lock" button soemtime while I was asleep. That enabled the alarm and when I moved I set it off. You have to laugh though. Just imagine it. Dead to the world and the horn and alarm start sounding. First thing you do is sit straight up. Being on the bed in the back meant that my head met the roof in quick fashion. Then I had to find the key which went west when I accidently pushed the pillow out of the way. No lights apart from the headlights flashing. It took ages to find the key. Felt like two hours. By this time all the others in the camp were awake. Luckily we were all mates as it was a club training trip.Well I think we are all mates. I was the club joke for a while. All in fun though. Just imagine what it would have been like if it was a public camp ground. Don't want even to go there.

They aren't stupid are they?

The Kings Canyon Resort CPs are cheeky; they even come in during the day. People leave their dogs chained to their vans when they go to the Canyon and the dingoes pinch the dog food from them.

Food stuff, shoes and the like should never be left out when bush camping.

Motherhen

The Palm Valley dingoes knocked off a nearly full 5 kg bag of bread mix from one of those square platforms right next to my swag (while I was asleep).

If you see a dingo at PV with white powder around his muzzle he hasn't been snorting coke.

Bob

Hi Bob

We saw one walking along the creek in the middle of the afternoon soon after we arrived. He was a light dusty all over colour - must have rolled in your bag of flour.

Mh

I know we travel well these days. Even in the bush.

But having to press the suit each morning is taking things a bit too far!!!

It seems dingoes everywhere have a shoe fetish , footwear needs to be placed up out of reach of those kinky canines.

Many camp-sites are sometimes over-run with a myriad of small black thieves that'll target your food stores, bedding and get into just about everything else , some surface bug spray applied to things that contact the ground [e.g. table legs] usually keeps those pesky ants at bay [at least for a little while]

True BW

We've never had anything stolen, but if we have to go to a CP, we are careful of security. This is not because of anyone else in the park, but in some towns, there are people who take advantage of the easy pickings in a CP. They would not find it worth their while to go out of town for what little cash and saleable items they could find in a camper's gear.

Prior to having the caravan, we used to camp on the back of the ute, and if at a CP, would leave the Engel plugged into the power, and a chair or two to 'mark' our bay as occupied when we went touring for the day. We used to try and camp with the 'oldies' who were wintering in the north partly so they could keep an eye on our gear.

Motherhen