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

[Fuscus]

Inny, there are a couple of "offical" campsites in Lamington NP, one is on the way to the stinson plane wreck http://lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au/Documents/Other/stin.htm . You need a permit ($3.50 pp per night) and its about nine kms in.

 

[rodentrancher]

Yeah way to go dugga!

 

[Fuscus]

this is my cousins tent. I've heard that they had since had it renovated and have added an addtional story.

 

[Guest]

lol fuscus. thats what i call TRU camping. look how they are tuffing it out there, with their big fancy roof, and proper chairs. :roll:

 

[Magpie]

Well... camping.. that would be drive in with the tent and all the gear. Good fun, great with the family.
I do enjoy a hike though... nothing but what you can carry for 10 days.

PS. i make the best damper.

 

[Woma_n]

To be honest i dont think i could do it without a battery operated hair dryer hehe
Nah i like the little luxuries in life, such as a toilet, mobile phone, bathroom, shower etc.
I dont think i could handle being out in the bush for very long thats for sure. I haaaate bugs (and it makes it even funnier about the moth..) and even if one lands on me im squirmish for a few hours later....

 

[Sdaji]

PS. i make the best damper

I used to make really great damper, then I didn't make any for a few years, then I made some and it was terrible, so I made more, which was equally bad, then I made more, which was slightly better but still not worth eating, then I started putting stupid things in the mix and it became really stupid. Eventually I gave up. I think the difference between my old batches and the more recent ones wasn't so much that the original ones were better, but that in my early teens I was quite happy to eat ashy dough, wheras in my late teens I was not. Perhaps now that I'm in my mid 20's I should try again and see what it's like

 

[moosenoose]

I haaaate bugs (and it makes it even funnier about the moth..)

I bet you were glad you found it sooner than later! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I really miss camping I had a massive goanna lying on my tent when I woke up one morning on Fraser Island. I had the oily silhouette of this big fella permanently imprinted on the roof of that tent for years :lol: Please don't ask me how I got him off the roof, I honestly didn't need a zillion holes in my tent for the next week & a halfs worth of camping :wink:

 

[trader]

Well... camping.. that would be drive in with the tent and all the gear. Good fun, great with the family.
I do enjoy a hike though... nothing but what you can carry for 10 days.

PS. i make the best damper.

Hi Magpie, Yes that is the sort of camping I was talking about 'with the family' young'uns and all. We even bring chairs to sit on too. :wink:

What is a damper?? :?:

 

[Sdaji]

What is a damper??

Ashy dough

 

[Nome]

Hi Magpie, Yes that is the sort of camping I was talking about 'with the family' young'uns and all. We even bring chairs to sit on too. :wink:

What is a damper?? :?:

Yes, family makes camping wonderful! I love sitting around on the slabs of wood at night, toasting marshmallows and talking and laughing about the day.

Damper is a 'traditional' Australian bread. You can make it with lots of things, but when camping, I've just used a bit of self-raising flour, pinch salt and water, mix it all up into a dough, and popped it in the camp oven onto the fire. When cooked, you break it apart and smear with honey, tastes delicious! Sometimes a bit ashy, depending on how you cook it, but it all adds to the flavour

mmmm...camping flavoured damper.

 

[trader]

Thanx Sdaji. I just asked Daavid "What is a damper?" while I was speaking to him on the phone...he said it shows I did not grow up in Australia... :wink:
Daavid has baked bread over the fire with a tin over the dough...maybe that is something like 'damper'?
I also forgot to mention in previous posts, we do enjoy the cold beer and red wine while sitting around the campfire.

Moosenoose I say we arrange a camping trip with you, bring your daughter along (the one we met at the VHS meeting) and any of your other children...come on it would be fun!

 

[trader]

Yes, family makes camping wonderful! I love sitting around on the slabs of wood at night, toasting marshmallows and talking and laughing about the day.

Damper is a 'traditional' Australian bread. You can make it with lots of things, but when camping, I've just used a bit of self-raising flour, pinch salt and water, mix it all up into a dough, and popped it in the camp oven onto the fire. When cooked, you break it apart and smear with honey, tastes delicious! Sometimes a bit ashy, depending on how you cook it, but it all adds to the flavour

Nome you come along too. You seem to be alot like us. The roasting of marshmallows is a treat. Have you ever played 'fuzzy bunnies'?

Your description of how to make 'damper' is how Daavid was making bread over the fire....mmmm deeelicious!

 

[Nome]

Nome you come along too. You seem to be alot like us. The roasting of marshmallows is a treat. Have you ever played 'fuzzy bunnies'?

Your description of how to make 'damper' is how Daavid was making bread over the fire....mmmm deeelicious!

I love 'fuzzy bunnies' though never succeeded at doing it without laughing and have marshmallow go eveywhere :wink:

Love to come! I've got two lovely young 'uns under 6 who love camping more than I do. :wink:

 

[keelow]

PFFFFTTT! you city folk don't know anything about camping :roll: :twisted:

Please explain, more information please ....

When I began this topic I was meaning how some people think 'camping' is being in a caravan with a TV and all the electrical facilities, showers etc. stores nearby if you run out or forget something. So far some of the descriptions members are giving of camping doesn't sound like 'city folk' stuff to me. :wink:
aaahh I just thought of something, maybe because I say we use a kitchen tent on some camping trips...that is because where I camped in Canada you have a gazzilion mozzies and huge amount of flies to contend with, in your eyes, your mouth, and all over everything, not like here in Oz it is so insect free
Cheers!

Insect free, trader?


Man you need to go camping on the nullabor... i've never ever seen flies like it. put it this way next time i drive across i'm not stopping in the daylight.

Stu

 

[NoOne]

This was from my last Bass run.....nothing around for hundreds of miles.....and yes the flies were everywhere.

Gees that weedbed held some big bass

 

[imported_Mark]

Gosh you all know nothing about camping. If you want real camping try trecking in Nepal. I have done 3 treks there from 30 to 50 days, all in tens (carried and put up by porters) no electricity (cooking over a fire done by a cook) no roads, running water (local creeks - saw a dead body float past once, so no creek washing, just nice warm bowls each morning and evening) and lots of contact with lovely people, fantastic views, freezing cold or stinking hot....all just wonderful. Since I have trekked there in the 80's you now have Maoist insurgencies to also contend with...who could want more LOL


Attached is a view of a camp site, you can see one of the porters walking in with my lugage on his back. LOL


Mark

 

[herptrader]

Hey Stu you have not lived until you have slaped your thighs every 10 seconds and killed 5 mosquitoes with every slap and after a couple of minutes you are dripping with blood.

 

[Fuscus]

Hey Stu you have not lived until you have slaped your thighs every 10 seconds and killed 5 mosquitoes with every slap and after a couple of minutes you are dripping with blood.

Pimpimba (?) conservation park on the gold coast. Good for keelbacks, GTS and carpets. And, in certain conditions, mosquitoes. Forget going in there without 10 layers of DEET. I took off my Jacket and I reckon there was 5000 mosquitoes on it.

 

[Hickson]

Last year I was camping in the Tanami (supposedly looking for Night Parrots). The mossies there are tiny and you don't feel them bite you. I woke up the next morning covered in these great red welts of mossie bites all over my back, chest, legs, and arms. Itchy as all hell and lasted for over a month. An experience I won't forget for a loooooooong time.



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