Who likes Camping?? I mean REAL camping...

[trader]

..speaking of the 'maybe' gathering at Nick's caravan park...makes me wonder...who on the APS likes camping I mean the real camping, tent on ground, pit toilets, no electricity etc etc???

It would be interesting to know..as I just mentioned in the 'Roy Pails is a great Guy' posts, we just came back from camping 5 nights in the Murrindindi Reserve. Gawd so peaceful, so relaxing, very, very special place in deed....great memories of 8 yrs ago when I came here for a holiday and Daavid (my then boyfriend) took me camping to a few places around Victoria, totally awesome, no black bears to worry about.... :wink: :wink:

 

[Guest]

Love it!! i used to go camping down at Newnes in the wollemi national park alot (about an hour west of lithgow NSW) and it is great to get away from the city lights and even better, no mobile phone coverage!!!

 

[moosenoose]

I used to really love going camping - my wife isn't into it though Many a happy night I used to have on the Fraser Island bach beaches shaking those beautiful Death Adders out my sleeping bag before bedtime :wink: That was the life :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[trader]

no mobile phone coverage!!!

Yep that is the best!!! no phone coverage unless you drive for about 10-12km...at least where we were last week... :wink:

I used to really love going camping - my wife isn't into it though Many a happy night I used to have on the Fraser Island bach beaches shaking those beautiful Death Adders out my sleeping bag before bedtime Wink That was the life

That is pretty cute Moosenoose, about the Death Adders...sorry your wife does not enjoy camping

 

[ether]

Camping at school is compulsory. In a weeks time i will be off to Canberra for my third and last outward bound. Basically you walk around the bush for 10 days and sleep under bivies, none of that tent stuff! Really quite enjoyable.

Regards Alex

 

[trader]

That is great Ether, have fun and enjoy!!! You are a lucky guy to have a school doing that for the students!

 

[Guest]

Re: RE: Who likes Camping?? I mean REAL camping...

Camping at school is compulsory. In a weeks time i will be off to Canberra for my third and last outward bound. Basically you walk around the bush for 10 days and sleep under bivies, none of that tent stuff! Really quite enjoyable.

Regards Alex

sounds like you might be a Cadet Alex......am i right?

 

[moosenoose]

Re: RE: Who likes Camping?? I mean REAL camping...

Camping at school is compulsory. In a weeks time i will be off to Canberra for my third and last outward bound. Basically you walk around the bush for 10 days and sleep under bivies, none of that tent stuff! Really quite enjoyable.

Regards Alex

Obviously you're from the warmer parts of the country Ether :lol: :lol: Just don't forget these two key ingredients:
1/ Thermal underwear &
2/ A Wetsuit

 

[trader]

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A quote from an email Daavid sent to our son and daughter-in-law in Canada the week before last:

"I am a lucky bloke!
Just a short note to let you know that Judy is relaxing at
our camp site at Murrindindi as I type. Well I hope she is
relaxing... she may be out trekking or similar if I know her.

She left before me after delivering meals on wheels. When I
got there she had our tent set up and had just completed
inflating the air mattress. I unpacked and went to cut
firewood. When I came back she had the kitchen tent set up.
By the time I got the fire going she had poured me a beer ;-)"

 

[Fuscus]

Re: RE: Who likes Camping?? I mean REAL camping...

no mobile phone coverage!!!

humpf, Sounds like most of SA.
Most of my camping is a swag. Dump it on the ground, herp/photograph for the day, sleep in something slightly smaller than a coffin. Relocating is easy. This is proberly my next place of visit, note the most common lizard.
http://www.riverland.net.au/gluepot/

 

[herptrader]

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Hey, after 5 days at Murrindindi I was driving out of the bush and my phone went off. I pulled over to read the SMS:

"You have 59 missed calls"

Bummer me thinks and I head on my way. Then I get a call:

"You have 1 new voice mail (from the office)"

It turns out that my office voice mail had been calling me every 15 minutes for a few days ;-)

 

[herptrader]

Re: RE: Re: RE: Who likes Camping?? I mean REAL camping...

A quote from an email Daavid sent to our son and daughter-in-law in Canada the week before last:

"I am a lucky bloke!
Just a short note to let you know that Judy is relaxing at
our camp site at Murrindindi as I type. Well I hope she is
relaxing... she may be out trekking or similar if I know her.

She left before me after delivering meals on wheels. When I
got there she had our tent set up and had just completed
inflating the air mattress. I unpacked and went to cut
firewood. When I came back she had the kitchen tent set up.
By the time I got the fire going she had poured me a beer ;-)"

This was an email sent after commuting to work from the camp site. It is great to be able to camp in secluded bush and put in a short day at the office if needed.

 

[Guest]

RE: Re: RE: Who likes Camping?? I mean REAL camping...

My last camping experience we forgot the poles for our 5man dome tent. so we got all the tarps out of the car and made a basic tent. the thing where u throw a tarp over a pole. that night it HAILED!!! and pissed down rain like there was no tomorrow. I only woke the once at the lightning. best night sleap i ever had. we had seeled everything and had like 6tarps together. so it was a massive tent.

anyone else ever forget the essentual things 4 camping?

 

[ether]

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That is great Ether, have fun and enjoy!!! You are a lucky guy to have a school doing that for the students!

Yeh i think so to! Some people hate is with a passion. They dread it every year. lol

sounds like you might be a Cadet Alex......am i right?

No i'me not actually. Our school doesent offer cadets. It's just basically to teach us leadership and how to work as a team.

1/ Thermal underwear &

yeh i know, i have to get a new pair as my last ones were partially melted after i tried to dry them next to the fire.

 

[Nome]

I love camping!

In QLD, I used to go to this place, there was no water, toilets or electricity, and would stay there about a week. It was amazing!! It was never popular as it had no amenities, but that just made it better. There were 9km+ bush walks, and many death adders were on them (I actually trod on one on a walk while i was pregnant with my second child, lucky it wasn't aggressive). You could spend all day in the rainforest, then at night head back, make a fire and cook up some meat, and string the solar shower and shower under a tree.

Amazing!

I miss QLD

 

[trader]

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:wink: I forgot to pack my underwear 8 yrs ago...seriously, right Daavid? no biggy though... we were gone for quite awhile too...
We also forgot to put the bread away one night in Canada, and that was Daavid's 1st close encounter with a Canadian Black bear as it rummaged through the kitchen tent, during the night, leaving a huge hole in the screen/flywire. "Daavid I think I hear a bear!" "Don't worry darling I am here to protect you go back to sleep." So out the tent I went to squat near the tent, thinking it was my imagination, and as I crawled back inside the tent, that is when we heard the crash, bang, tinkle, tinkle(dishes, pots and pans)...Daavid tried to scare him away with a big stick, finally after hitting it on the head with a rock, he meandered away...

 

[Bryony]

i LOVE proper camping!!!!
we used to do it with just a tarp and string and sleeping bad!
no delux tents!
lol

 

[trader]

i LOVE proper camping!!!!
we used to do it with just a tarp and string and sleeping bad!
no delux tents!
lol

:wink: :wink: Hi Bryony..how does one sleep bad while camping?? Just kidding, I know it was a typo.

Here are 2 pictures from the last trip, I have alot more but will not bore you all...

 

[keelow]

I used to go camping down in the blackwood river area of Southwest WA all the time.... beautiful place, haven't done much for years....

Where is a good place in victoria?

 

[snakes_alive]

Top stuff camping, family went to hill end last school holiday had a ball. If you like history you would love hill end. Seen plenty of little critters, had to catch so my kids could see and touch, think they had more fun watching me run after bearded dragons. lots of fun

Debbie