Last week I camped at the Tallangatta (Victoria) Showgrounds, this is a large grassed area (25 acres?) with power and water points around most of its expanse, one may camp anywhere, no designated spots. I had been there for eight days camped 20m from a single woman, she had her car parked in that space reducing the available distance between us. There were only a dozen or so caravans in the entire area.
The day before leaving I nipped out around 10am to fill up with diesel and buy milk and bread. Damn me but upon my return I discovered a caravan, Nissan Patrol and an old Holden sedan crammed into the space between me and the woman! There was now barely enough space for me to open the van windows and I doubt the woman would be able to get her car out with fewer than a 30 point turn! He then proceeded to run over my power cable... twice. My new neighbours were a couple in their eighties I guess - I was surprised to find it was possible to survive that long being both rude and stupid.
Stay cool Harding, you're leaving tomorrow - so I did, on both counts.
I drove to Nug Nug Reserve, 100km south, and found a spot at the back without services and no one else around, all good. The reserve is 75% empty now most of the holidaymakers having left.
Damn me! this morning at 10am a guy with a camper trailer and two boys decided to set up 10m from me! There is a *heap* of other space he could have used.
Ho hum....
This is why I like to spend much of my time deep in the bush "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Brodie Allen said
02:01 PM Jan 10, 2022
They come from bogansville where the eaves of one house touches the next.
They feel insecure in a space on their own.
I ask them to move, if they don't I start the genny.
fwdoz said
02:55 PM Jan 10, 2022
Put up a photo of Mick from Wolf Creek. That should scare them off.
-- Edited by fwdoz on Monday 10th of January 2022 02:56:09 PM
KevinJ said
04:46 PM Jan 10, 2022
Download a WAV file of a running generator and run it on a continuous loop through the outside speakers.
BarneyBDB said
06:25 PM Jan 10, 2022
Stake your claim with a couple of star pickets and 20 m of crime scene or similar tape???
Corndoggy said
06:42 PM Jan 10, 2022
BarneyBDB wrote:
Stake your claim with a couple of star pickets and 20 m of crime scene or similar tape???
Lmao. Have seen that done.
Corndoggy said
06:47 PM Jan 10, 2022
"My new neighbours were a couple in their eighties I guess - I was surprised to find it was possible to survive that long being both rude and stupid."
If you were to say something to them can you guess what they would have thought?
"How rude, stupid and selfish this guy is".
They got one more up on you.
One good thing though, they would have went to bed by 7.00pm
-- Edited by Corndoggy on Monday 10th of January 2022 06:49:21 PM
-- Edited by Corndoggy on Monday 10th of January 2022 06:51:11 PM
oldbloke said
07:27 PM Jan 10, 2022
KevinJ wrote:
Download a WAV file of a running generator and run it on a continuous loop through the outside speakers.
Your giving me ideas
Mike Harding said
10:03 PM Jan 10, 2022
It's not just me: I was kindly invited to the campfire of a group of 10 of so tonight who are camped 100m from me and they commented upon the proximity of the new arrivals.
Please people: do not camp too close to others - they don't like it.
travelyounger said
10:27 PM Jan 10, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
It's happened again.
Last week I camped at the Tallangatta (Victoria) Showgrounds, this is a large grassed area (25 acres?) with power and water points around most of its expanse, one may camp anywhere, no designated spots. I had been there for eight days camped 20m from a single woman, she had her car parked in that space reducing the available distance between us. There were only a dozen or so caravans in the entire area.
The day before leaving I nipped out around 10am to fill up with diesel and buy milk and bread. Damn me but upon my return I discovered a caravan, Nissan Patrol and an old Holden sedan crammed into the space between me and the woman! There was now barely enough space for me to open the van windows and I doubt the woman would be able to get her car out with fewer than a 30 point turn! He then proceeded to run over my power cable... twice. My new neighbours were a couple in their eighties I guess - I was surprised to find it was possible to survive that long being both rude and stupid
Stay cool Harding, you're leaving tomorrow - so I did, on both counts.
I drove to Nug Nug Reserve, 100km south, and found a spot at the back without services and no one else around, all good. The reserve is 75% empty now most of the holidaymakers having left.
Damn me! this morning at 10am a guy with a camper trailer and two boys decided to set up 10m from me! There is a *heap* of other space he could have used.
Ho hum....
This is why I like to spend much of my time deep in the bush "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Hi Mike
Although we are newbies to travelling full time nearly five years we have had numerous people setup very close to us with acres around us where their is no one.
I dont no what the attraction is maybe its my good looks or the music we play ( I wish) but if they cross the line of being to smart I bring out the peacemaker the good old generator lock your self indoors with the air on and make sure it nice and loud and happy days and if that does not work Im sure a Micheal Boulton CD might do it
Cheers
Wizardofoz said
07:33 AM Jan 11, 2022
Or JIMMY BARNES.
-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 07:34:20 AM
fwdoz said
09:58 AM Jan 11, 2022
Mariah Carey Christmas CD
bilbo said
10:04 AM Jan 11, 2022
Mike, thats easy...........put up a sign " I am Covid POSITIVE"
cheers Bilbo
Mike Harding said
03:09 PM Jan 11, 2022
I seriously thought about that Bilbo!
Just had some FI in a 4WD ute squeeze between me and Fatso next door - why!? Ute must have run over my sullage pipe!
At times such as this I understand why people lose the plot. Time to go back to the bush I think.
Bobdown said
01:43 PM Jan 12, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
I seriously thought about that Bilbo!
Just had some FI in a 4WD ute squeeze between me and Fatso next door - why!? Ute must have run over my sullage pipe!
At times such as this I understand why people lose the plot. Time to go back to the bush I think.
Mike, you too nice, I would have lost the plot a few times by now, just tell them to bugger off, why should you have to move or go back to the bush.
Cheers Bob
Plain Truth said
02:02 PM Jan 12, 2022
Hang in there Mike,you might get some nice neighbors one day.
dorian said
03:23 PM Jan 12, 2022
Play some Dean Martin. Then they'll understand what Roberta Flack meant by "killing me softly with his song".
Plain Truth said
03:40 PM Jan 12, 2022
We love Deano. we listen to it while we watch your picture crumble. We too cqn be nasty
-- Edited by Plain Truth on Wednesday 12th of January 2022 03:43:50 PM
peter67 said
05:55 PM Jan 12, 2022
That's inviting retaliation with RAP MUSIC guys....
EDIT: Rap music gives most older people and me homicidal urges.
-- Edited by peter67 on Wednesday 12th of January 2022 05:56:49 PM
Plain Truth said
07:01 PM Jan 12, 2022
peter67 wrote:
That's inviting retaliation with RAP MUSIC guys....
EDIT: Rap music gives most older people and me homicidal urges.
-- Edited by peter67 on Wednesday 12th of January 2022 05:56:49 PM
Most older people know that Rap music misses the letter C .
Mike Harding said
07:58 PM Jan 12, 2022
Plain Truth wrote:
Hang in there Mike,you might get some nice neighbors one day.
They turn up occasionally PT :)
Scubadoo said
08:20 PM Jan 12, 2022
Mike
Many years ago we travelled Australia in our motorhome for 3 years (2003-2006) and this we will never forget.
Somewhere near Normanton we found a freedom camping site. From memory we drove along dirt road following a river that we explored for about 5 or 6 km before u-turning and returning another kilometer or two and choosing a random spot to camp. Locals will know it. To the left of us for the entire distance was perhaps 50m of flat grass to the river and to the right at least another 100m. We never saw another vehicle. Parking for maybe several thousand RVers?
We settled down and guess what along comes a Coaster bus and parks within 1m yes 1m!!! Why?
We must have smelt real nice.
Gaylehere said
12:12 AM Jan 13, 2022
I think at some stage in our travels this has happened to all of us. Cheers.
Whenarewethere said
12:56 AM Jan 13, 2022
West coast Eyre Peninsula a few years ago, hundreds of opportunities for respectable distance. We were the only ones in the entire greater area for 4 nights. What more could one ask for.
Second night a group camped next to us that even the mosquitoes had issues with, with the obstacle course of guy ropes crossing each other.
I don't get it. We have more distance in our Sydney block of units!
Ozzie_Traveller said
09:38 AM Jan 13, 2022
G'day fellas
Nah ......... put up a sign "Swingers have fun here" and that will drive 'em all away real qwik
Phil
-- Edited by Ozzie_Traveller on Thursday 13th of January 2022 09:39:30 AM
Corndoggy said
06:39 PM Jan 13, 2022
Ozzie_Traveller wrote:
G'day fellas
Nah ......... put up a sign "Swingers have fun here" and that will drive 'em all away real qwik
Phil
-- Edited by Ozzie_Traveller on Thursday 13th of January 2022 09:39:30 AM
Or it could backfire and you'll have half the campsites making a beeline to you.
Clarky 1 said
06:45 PM Jan 13, 2022
Corndoggy wrote:
Ozzie_Traveller wrote:
G'day fellas
Nah ......... put up a sign "Swingers have fun here" and that will drive 'em all away real qwik
Phil
-- Edited by Ozzie_Traveller on Thursday 13th of January 2022 09:39:30 AM
Or it could backfire and you'll have half the campsites making a beeline to you.
I was in a park last weekend and there was a wizzbanger with a male and two females all camped in it.
Fit young people they appeared to be.
Needless to say he appeared happy in more ways than one.
My first thoughts were that when he comes out he probably should wear loose fitting shorts.
Farmhat said
07:31 PM Jan 13, 2022
Perhaps you do Mike, lol.
I know where you are coming from.
Several times I have had people park directly in front of my car in a way that I could not move the vehicle, both with and without the van attached.
One was a french female backpacker and the other was a motorhome that had put their awning up
Both times it took some stern words before they would move.
You have to wonder about some people at times!
Cheers,
Joe
Rob Driver said
10:28 AM Jan 14, 2022
Funny one Stu.
Possum3 said
08:57 AM Jan 16, 2022
Anyone that has camped at Gregory Qld, down by the river knows that space is a premium, so it is first comes rules. We were camped there in 2018 with awning extended, when we went up to pub for lunch a camper trailer actually camped in under our awning - needless to say I politely advised him that it would be a better option to camp further up the bank - he decamped whilst swearing and advising me how us old farts didn't deserve the luxury of "Free Camps" because of the massive amount of Govt money we are given. I told him that "we were so poor I could barely afford to spend the money on the shotgun cartridge I'm going to waste". He actually stopped giving lip at that point and left the area.
-- Edited by Possum3 on Sunday 16th of January 2022 08:58:43 AM
It's happened again.
Last week I camped at the Tallangatta (Victoria) Showgrounds, this is a large grassed area (25 acres?) with power and water points around most of its expanse, one may camp anywhere, no designated spots. I had been there for eight days camped 20m from a single woman, she had her car parked in that space reducing the available distance between us. There were only a dozen or so caravans in the entire area.
The day before leaving I nipped out around 10am to fill up with diesel and buy milk and bread. Damn me but upon my return I discovered a caravan, Nissan Patrol and an old Holden sedan crammed into the space between me and the woman! There was now barely enough space for me to open the van windows and I doubt the woman would be able to get her car out with fewer than a 30 point turn! He then proceeded to run over my power cable... twice. My new neighbours were a couple in their eighties I guess - I was surprised to find it was possible to survive that long being both rude and stupid.
Stay cool Harding, you're leaving tomorrow - so I did, on both counts.
I drove to Nug Nug Reserve, 100km south, and found a spot at the back without services and no one else around, all good. The reserve is 75% empty now most of the holidaymakers having left.
Damn me! this morning at 10am a guy with a camper trailer and two boys decided to set up 10m from me! There is a *heap* of other space he could have used.
Ho hum....
This is why I like to spend much of my time deep in the bush "Far From the Madding Crowd."
They feel insecure in a space on their own.
I ask them to move, if they don't I start the genny.
Put up a photo of Mick from Wolf Creek. That should scare them off.
-- Edited by fwdoz on Monday 10th of January 2022 02:56:09 PM
Download a WAV file of a running generator and run it on a continuous loop through the outside speakers.
Lmao. Have seen that done.
"My new neighbours were a couple in their eighties I guess - I was surprised to find it was possible to survive that long being both rude and stupid."
If you were to say something to them can you guess what they would have thought?
"How rude, stupid and selfish this guy is".
They got one more up on you.
One good thing though, they would have went to bed by 7.00pm
-- Edited by Corndoggy on Monday 10th of January 2022 06:49:21 PM
-- Edited by Corndoggy on Monday 10th of January 2022 06:51:11 PM
Your giving me ideas
It's not just me: I was kindly invited to the campfire of a group of 10 of so tonight who are camped 100m from me and they commented upon the proximity of the new arrivals.
Please people: do not camp too close to others - they don't like it.
Hi Mike
Although we are newbies to travelling full time nearly five years we have had numerous people setup very close to us with acres around us where their is no one.
I dont no what the attraction is maybe its my good looks or the music we play ( I wish) but if they cross the line of being to smart I bring out the peacemaker the good old generator lock your self indoors with the air on and make sure it nice and loud and happy days and if that does not work Im sure a Micheal Boulton CD might do it
Cheers
Or JIMMY BARNES.
-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 07:34:20 AM
Mike, thats easy...........put up a sign " I am Covid POSITIVE"
cheers Bilbo
I seriously thought about that Bilbo!
Just had some FI in a 4WD ute squeeze between me and Fatso next door - why!? Ute must have run over my sullage pipe!
At times such as this I understand why people lose the plot. Time to go back to the bush I think.
Mike, you too nice, I would have lost the plot a few times by now, just tell them to bugger off, why should you have to move or go back to the bush.
Cheers Bob
Hang in there Mike,you might get some nice neighbors one day.
We love Deano. we listen to it while we watch your picture crumble. We too cqn be nasty
-- Edited by Plain Truth on Wednesday 12th of January 2022 03:43:50 PM
That's inviting retaliation with RAP MUSIC guys....
EDIT: Rap music gives most older people and me homicidal urges.
-- Edited by peter67 on Wednesday 12th of January 2022 05:56:49 PM
Most older people know that Rap music misses the letter C .
They turn up occasionally PT :)
Many years ago we travelled Australia in our motorhome for 3 years (2003-2006) and this we will never forget.
Somewhere near Normanton we found a freedom camping site. From memory we drove along dirt road following a river that we explored for about 5 or 6 km before u-turning and returning another kilometer or two and choosing a random spot to camp. Locals will know it. To the left of us for the entire distance was perhaps 50m of flat grass to the river and to the right at least another 100m. We never saw another vehicle. Parking for maybe several thousand RVers?
We settled down and guess what along comes a Coaster bus and parks within 1m yes 1m!!! Why?
We must have smelt real nice.
West coast Eyre Peninsula a few years ago, hundreds of opportunities for respectable distance. We were the only ones in the entire greater area for 4 nights. What more could one ask for.
Second night a group camped next to us that even the mosquitoes had issues with, with the obstacle course of guy ropes crossing each other.
I don't get it. We have more distance in our Sydney block of units!
G'day fellas
Nah ......... put up a sign "Swingers have fun here" and that will drive 'em all away real qwik
Phil
-- Edited by Ozzie_Traveller on Thursday 13th of January 2022 09:39:30 AM
Or it could backfire and you'll have half the campsites making a beeline to you.
I was in a park last weekend and there was a wizzbanger with a male and two females all camped in it.
Fit young people they appeared to be.
Needless to say he appeared happy in more ways than one.
My first thoughts were that when he comes out he probably should wear loose fitting shorts.
Perhaps you do Mike, lol.
I know where you are coming from.
Several times I have had people park directly in front of my car in a way that I could not move the vehicle, both with and without the van attached.
One was a french female backpacker and the other was a motorhome that had put their awning up
Both times it took some stern words before they would move.
You have to wonder about some people at times!
Cheers,
Joe
Funny one Stu.
Anyone that has camped at Gregory Qld, down by the river knows that space is a premium, so it is first comes rules.
We were camped there in 2018 with awning extended, when we went up to pub for lunch a camper trailer actually camped in under our awning - needless to say I politely advised him that it would be a better option to camp further up the bank - he decamped whilst swearing and advising me how us old farts didn't deserve the luxury of "Free Camps" because of the massive amount of Govt money we are given. I told him that "we were so poor I could barely afford to spend the money on the shotgun cartridge I'm going to waste". He actually stopped giving lip at that point and left the area.
-- Edited by Possum3 on Sunday 16th of January 2022 08:58:43 AM