Free Camping HOG !!

I,m with you mate. Looked like they were fully self contained. Pretty sparse housing by the looks and who knows why they stayed there. One should never assume.

Joe, if it had of been me mate I would have probably wandered over and seen in they wanted a cuppa. Met some bloody great people by being hospitable.
cheers

Hello all
I must admit that iv pulled up in a suburban street and slept in the back of the ute,I don't make any noise, and the thing is my ute is registerd so it is aloud by law to stand on the street over night. happy camping bill,

I 'm with you guys ?? just somewhere to sleep overnight, no harm done, Personally I would have done the same thing, But maybe pulled up a liitle past his driveway, Some people do abuse the freecamp thingy ?? But this one would be on the bottom end of the scale, Live and Let Live ! Eh !!

Just Think of the future you will be a gray nomad too. Barnray

One town we were in when on the road we were looking at the free camp area provided by the council and it looked pretty dodgy, no lights, lots of places for low lifes to hide in the shadows. We were thinking we should find some where else to sleep. A guy comes wandering over and "your not going to stay there are you?". I said "nah just getting a bit late and looking for somewhere to camp". He replies "heaps of room on my front nature strip. The locals know not to come near my place so it's safe.
We camped there the night and had a great chat with him. He gave us the heads up on some great places to see. This was in the main town as well.
Some people do abuse the right to free camp.
Joe, did you check if they were ok. Maybe they needed to pull over for a reason.

Josh

Yeah, sounds good in principle, nothing wrong with being friendly, after all it’s the Aussie way. Problem is you’d run the risk of being known as a friendly place to camp overnight, no hassles, friendly locals who come over for a cuppa…

Before you can blink you’ll end up on the ‘freebie’ circuit, and you’ll be drinking tea all night because there’ll be 5 RVs, 3 Winnebagos, and half a dozen of the dreaded ‘wicked’ vans right on your doorstep.

Is this what we want for the people who live in these communities?

Yep, guilty. Does that make me a freecamper, or just a boozehound?

Perhaps they just felt they need a little security ??

redback

A few bucks for a powered site?. If camping in town I struggle to get somewhere for a swag for under $30. Let alone a powered site.

Especially in WA.....2009 a few square metres in the Big 4 @ Exmouth.... one 9x9 centrepole tent, 1 ute, 2 adults and no power..... $48 for the night. And, the ground was so bloody hard I had to get the high tensile pegs out to boot LOL

G'day Everyone

It seems as if I have upset a few people by my post on the "Free Camping HOG".
The truth is I never actually saw the bloke or the woman step out side the motor home, not even when the vehicle was cranked up before they departed their camp, I guess it is walk through unit, but the cat that was under the vehicle came over and took a dump in amongst the front yard wild flowers ~ I suppose I should be grateful for that !!

My point in posting the story is purely to highlight the fact that some people couldn't give a sh#t about doing the right thing as in fact these happy campers are breaking the law.

Just like this bloke who was saving a few bucks by doing an oil change

Yeah Joe I agree here....I actually saw someone doing an oil change in one of the gravel pits just off the road on Cape York a couple of years back.....he just pulled the sump plug and let the oil drain on the ground. I got a mouthfull when I said that I didn't think what he was doing appropriate in the bush........but hey not everyone cares eh?

Hi Joe,

From the photo its not possible to know if they are collecting the oil - maybe they are?

If the need arises we do our own oil changes under similar circumstances BUT always collect the old oil, put it back in the empty oil container for later disposal at a tip. When we leave any and every campsite you would not know that anyone had been there except for wheel tracks). Its not hard to do!

Question for many small towns though - are the tips/recycling facilities well signposted, or even open for public access. Sometimes when in an unfamiliar town its hard to find these facilities.

No excuse for running oil out on the ground though.

Cheers,

Val

G'day Val ~ John

Sadly the "Bush Mechanic" was well off into the bush, the vehicle still had the caravan hooked up ~ the front wheels of the vehicle were up on stacks of flat rocks to give the oil a chance to drain out.

If the "Bush Mechanic" was doing the right thing and recovering the used engine oil one can only think he would have done the oil change back where the tyre marks originated from and that just happened to be at the 24 hour parking "Free Camping" area at the base of Mount Robinson on the highway north of Newman.

Things like finding piles of discarded truck (semi trailer) tyres dumped at the back of a highway parking bay all started by one person seeing no problem in dumping the first tyre there and the next bugger coming along and dumping a few more, possibly thinking it is an accepted thing to do, then it becomes the pox that it is across Australia.

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Patrol22 ~ Luckily just getting verbally abused by some "rat" when they are sprung red handed bending the rules isn't a bad outcome.

Safe travels: