New Camping Around Australia Book
Submitted: Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 13:20
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Michael ( Moss Vale NSW)
Has anyone purchased a copy of the above book? Is it the same as the Camps Australia book or different??...
Regards Michael
Reply By: Motherhen - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 14:02
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 14:02
Hi Michael
No-one has offered to be the guinea pig and buy to compare, but discussion on this thread:
Camping Book Thread
I will stick with Camps Australia Wide and the Jan Holland series for WA and NT. There are dozens of different
camping books out there.
Motherhen
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Reply By: Gone Bush (WA) - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 17:09
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 17:09
Angus & Robertson sell it.
Maybe next time someone is in one of their shops they can have a squiz and give some feedback.
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Reply By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 17:47
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 17:47
Hi Michael
Whilst I appreciate that people use such books for guides, I would rather just drive and find a place to
camp, but then admittedly, we don't use a caravan or tent, we just chuck the swag down when we get tired, and rarely do we
camp near any roads. Never costs us anything.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: petengail - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:39
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:39
New camps6 will be out on 1 March.
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:56
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:56
Hi Marc
We too prefer to find our own spots, but when nothing comes up (particularly when in the more populated areas), we resort to the Camps book, and sometimes find a nice lake or dam
well off the highway that we wouldn't have otherwise known about. On the way we see clumps of motor homes and caravans right alongside the highway in rest areas.
Mh
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Follow Up By: Member - John and Val - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 20:34
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 20:34
Hi Marc,
As MH says its ideal if you can find your own
camp, and just pull up and make
camp. Over the years we have found some truly excellent
camp spots and they are all the more special for having found them yourself.
But over here in the east where it is fairly densely populated and most of the roads are fenced its a fair bit harder to find that perfect spot. That is where a guide book becomes handy and at times essential.
Cheers,
Val
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Follow Up By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 22:46
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 22:46
Hi Mh
Yep, how right you are. I never
camp near other people as we somewtimes run our gen set and I am not that inconsiderate. I also take my blue heeler with me most times, and he does not have many manners. What he was trying to do to a travellers poodle was not nice, but then he is male and she must have been attractive. Kind of made me decide to keep him away from other people's dogs.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 22:47
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 22:47
Hi John and Val
The only comment I have is your rtesponse confirms for me why I will never live near a town.
Cheers
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Reply By: Shaker - Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:57
Sunday, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:57
It must be expensive if no one is prepared to try it.
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Reply By: Ayita5 - Monday, Nov 08, 2010 at 07:37
Monday, Nov 08, 2010 at 07:37
No, it's not that expensive, and I'm willing to 'be the guinea pig'. Unlike a lot of others on here, we're just getting started and so far Camps 5 is literally the only book we've bought. (Planning on getting some of the NT and WA ones that Motherhen recommended however). So, I don't mind buying another supposedly "comprehensive" one to compare.
As far as I can tell, it has less listings than Camps (despite saying it's the most comprehensive one in Australia??) but more pages, meaning I guess more detail in each listing, which might be nice.
While Camps 5 includes low cost caravan parks, this new book seems more focused on '
camping', which may mean it has less caravan parks but more tent-type sites? I know when I bought my Camps 5 I looked up the local conservation
park that we usually
camp at and it only mentioned one campground - there is actually five very individual and different campgrounds.
It also does not appear that the maps are HEMA maps.
Anyway, I'll purchase it next week and start a thread on it when I've had a look through for anyone who's interested.
...feel free to poke some bread and
water through the side of my cage, lol
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Reply By: Member - Michael R (NSW) - Tuesday, Nov 09, 2010 at 18:03
Tuesday, Nov 09, 2010 at 18:03
Ok, I'm not being a guinea pig, but my wife just brought one home from work (where they are on offer for $20.00).
At a glance, similar to Camps4/5, but without the pictures. Upside is that it is a better size at A4, but thicker. Without a full look through, we grabbed a couple of recent
camping spots that we've been to using the Camps books, found that this new book listed 1
camping site inthe area, but the Camps book had 4.
The maps are not Hema, and the scale leaves a bit to be desired, I found the names very small to read. To give an example, one map runs from
Ballina to
Gladstone. You can imagine how may site numbers appear on the maps in the more populated areas, it's almost impossible to determine where they are - some are in the Indian Ocean on the WA map.
Will we buy it? Don't know - the new Camps book is supposed to be out in February (I think).
Regards,
Michael
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