What have you seen in a Caravan Park that surprised you?
Gerty Dancer said
04:26 PM Sep 28, 2011
Theres so many different things about caravan parks, just when you think you've "seen it all" there's a surprise waiting for you.
The most amazing camp kitchen we've ever seen is at Cooktown. It had an enormous wall-mounted flat TV screen like a movie theatre. It also has a beautiful jade vine growing over the verandah outside.
The amenity block that surprised me was at Geraldton. I walked in first thing in the morning not looking my best, and theres a mirror covering the whole wall in the showers. I got quite a shock, saw my mother!
What have others found that was "different"?
Ma said
05:11 PM Sep 28, 2011
At the Dalrymple (?spelling) Van Park in Charters Towers they put fresh flowers in the amenities EVERY morning. A lovely touch.
Firefly said
05:14 PM Sep 28, 2011
At Burketown, they have frogs in their toilets, scared my pants off but super cute.
Ma said
05:26 PM Sep 28, 2011
Can beat that one Fly. At Lee Point in Darwin they have cane toads in their toilets....lol
Beth54 said
05:31 PM Sep 28, 2011
At Matilda CP in Winton, we were entertained by a singer at beer-o'clock time, and after dinner, two bush poets. They were very very funny and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The poets had a donation tin and the singer was free!
I don't stay in CP's often so it was a surprise to me.
Beth54 said
05:32 PM Sep 28, 2011
Ma wrote:
Can beat that one Fly. At Lee Point in Darwin they have cane toads in their toilets....lol
Yeeewww! That would put you off what you went in there to do!
Ma said
05:42 PM Sep 28, 2011
Or make you go back to the van to change your undies............
Mr Red said
05:57 PM Sep 28, 2011
Hi Firefly,
Just imagine what you did to the frog.
Mr Red.
Brian88 said
06:02 PM Sep 28, 2011
Been to most of those,been a nomad most of my life and now a grey nomad.First post how's it going.I still work on the road -anybody else?
Keith, one of nature's gentlemen and the 89 year old father of the operator of the park and an ex-truckie, takes you to your site on his little yellow motor scooter and then guides you onto the site. Just do exactly as he says and he'll locate you next to your slab with millimetre precision.
Located at the site of a WWII RAAF munitions storage facility. One can take a walk around the underground bunkers where the bombs etc were stored. Some have been converted to accommodation units. (More info on this one in the recommendations forum)
PS: Welcome aboard Brian88
Jim
-- Edited by jimricho on Wednesday 28th of September 2011 06:18:37 PM
Brian88 said
06:18 PM Sep 28, 2011
The best one I can think of was working on an aborigonal settlement out past a well know mission south west of Alice Springs, we were camped near the borefield in a canyon at night in the spring time , I got some big speakers out of the truck(Bore maintianence Truck) and played "the good the bad and the ugly",next thing,a courous of about 20 dingo's let loose Holloring!.My off sider who was a bit of a city side, got scared a heck.Never heard anything like it in my life,and killed myself laufing at my offsider.
Cruising Granny said
06:48 PM Sep 28, 2011
Hi Brian. Nice to see you here. I hope you enjoy your stay. The dingo choir must have been amazing in the quiet nights of the bush. The sky is so big out there. Where is the cottage on your avatar?
Brian88 said
06:55 PM Sep 28, 2011
On one of the places I'm working on doing flood damage north of Parks.Plenty more of those storys,sorry about the spelling ,my birthday today,1952 model.(Solo Nomad).
Well a really BIG Happy Birthday to you Brian. Hope it has been a great day for you.
Cheers B
jimbo said
07:01 PM Sep 28, 2011
Seabreeze Caravan park at cannonvale Last year.....Two young female Backpackers getting it off.....(Ladies) In the unpowered site $10 per night
Cruising Granny said
07:03 PM Sep 28, 2011
Ravensthorpe in southern WA is a park among the mallee with power points scattered among the trees and limestone rocks mark the sites. Then you go to the amenities block - pot plants everywhere, and inside. Not just any normal regular familiar pots. The pots are old TV cabinets, tea pots, boots, saucepans - literally anything that will hold moist dirt becomes a plant pot all around the property, holding a variety of plants and succulents, and even a climber or 2 in the bathroom. It's very unusual, but it's clean.
Brian88 said
07:09 PM Sep 28, 2011
thanks B ,I stopped work because it started raining and of course it stopped rainin but I did not care it was my birthday just started now, farmers out here must be praisin the lord or something(west nsw)it has come just in time as crops were drying out. Jimbo ya must have a beter one than that!
2weis said
07:16 PM Sep 28, 2011
happy birthday brian 88
Ma said
07:17 PM Sep 28, 2011
jimbo wrote:
Seabreeze Caravan park at cannonvale Last year.....Two young female Backpackers getting it off.....(Ladies) In the unpowered site $10 per night
Cheap entertainment if that's your thing..............oopps..........I didn't say that did I??
pauline said
07:27 PM Sep 28, 2011
You did Ma.
Pejay said
07:33 PM Sep 28, 2011
I was in my element with this one - the Range Caravan Park out from Townsville - they had a small patchwork shop on site, and they held a craft/patchwork group each week,.
Brian88 said
07:36 PM Sep 28, 2011
carn't think of any good c/park storys at the moment,might be because its me birthday but I'll tell you this yarn! Drivin one night across the Barkly Tablelands to Benmara Station ,in the middle of the Gulf Country, in the middle of the night in winter, I could see this light in the distance moving backwards and forwards on the horizon in the black of night,(if any of you know what the nights are like out there)anyhow the truck I was driving was going about 80kms per hr, and I could see the light for hours going back and fourth,WELL I THOUGH MIN MIN LIGHT,then finally I came across what I really was, and wish I didnot. As I approached ( by this time it was about 1am ,I could see this prime mover moving backwards and forwards pulling something on a trailer. So there I was all night long helping this poor bloke who had run into a large beast and had a load of railway iron on his trailer slide into his sleeper(lucky for him ,the sleeper was there,otherwise,I would have been a lot sadder)Chaining one by one we were till daylight.
Cruising Granny said
08:12 PM Sep 28, 2011
That was a tragedy averted. Working together to help a mate out is what true Aussies do best. Happy birthday Brian. I hope you can remember it without the pain in the morning. I hope tomorrow is a good day for you.
Shogun said
08:28 PM Sep 28, 2011
Did you get thier itinery for the next 12 months :)
Travel Bug said
08:35 PM Sep 28, 2011
WELCOME and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brian88.
jules47 said
09:17 PM Sep 28, 2011
Welcome Brian and Happy Birthday.
Vic said
09:43 PM Sep 28, 2011
Cruising Granny wrote:
Ravensthorpe in southern WA is a park among the mallee with power points scattered among the trees and limestone rocks mark the sites. Then you go to the amenities block - pot plants everywhere, and inside. Not just any normal regular familiar pots. The pots are old TV cabinets, tea pots, boots, saucepans - literally anything that will hold moist dirt becomes a plant pot all around the property, holding a variety of plants and succulents, and even a climber or 2 in the bathroom. It's very unusual, but it's clean.
We went there about 2 years ago CG, outside the office in the garden were numerous nude Barbie and Kenny dolls in with added appendages and associated hair, in various "positions"........There was a bobtail lizard in one of the shower cubicles along with frogs etc also.
-- Edited by Vic on Wednesday 28th of September 2011 09:44:13 PM
gordon_adl said
10:16 PM Sep 28, 2011
The thing that suprised me the most was in the flinders. A group of about 8-9 germans (55-70) year old spending all day standing in front of their rented caravans in their very old granny style knickers with boobs hanging past their knees. I'm talking from breakfast til dawn. Not one man between them.
Clare46 said
07:14 AM Sep 29, 2011
It doesn't seem to worry the frogs, they just continue to cling to the inside of the toilet bowl
-- Edited by Clare46 on Thursday 29th of September 2011 07:14:20 AM
jimbo said
08:31 AM Sep 29, 2011
Ma! I was parked opposite them......And they did'nt even have the tent closed...There was others staring at them..But because I am a gentleman...I closed my eyes and walked into a nearby tree......
Theres so many different things about caravan parks, just when you think you've "seen it all" there's a surprise waiting for you.
The most amazing camp kitchen we've ever seen is at Cooktown. It had an enormous wall-mounted flat TV screen like a movie theatre. It also has a beautiful jade vine growing over the verandah outside.
The amenity block that surprised me was at Geraldton. I walked in first thing in the morning not looking my best, and theres a mirror covering the whole wall in the showers. I got quite a shock, saw my mother!
What have others found that was "different"?
At the Dalrymple (?spelling) Van Park in Charters Towers they put fresh flowers in the amenities EVERY morning. A lovely touch.
At Burketown, they have frogs in their toilets, scared my pants off but super cute.
Can beat that one Fly. At Lee Point in Darwin they have cane toads in their toilets....lol
At Matilda CP in Winton, we were entertained by a singer at beer-o'clock time, and after dinner, two bush poets. They were very very funny and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The poets had a donation tin and the singer was free!
I don't stay in CP's often so it was a surprise to me.
Yeeewww! That would put you off what you went in there to do!
Or make you go back to the van to change your undies............
Hi Firefly,
Just imagine what you did to the frog.
Mr Red.
Hideaway Holiday Village Caravan Park, Mission Beach Nth Qld.
Keith, one of nature's gentlemen and the 89 year old father of the operator of the park and an ex-truckie, takes you to your site on his little yellow motor scooter and then guides you onto the site. Just do exactly as he says and he'll locate you next to your slab with millimetre precision.
BIG4 Valley Vineyard Tourist Park, Cessnock, Hunter Valley Wine Country.
Has a Thai restaurant on site where both the food and the service are excellent.
Possum Park, 20km north of Miles, Qld.
Located at the site of a WWII RAAF munitions storage facility. One can take a walk around the underground bunkers where the bombs etc were stored. Some have been converted to accommodation units. (More info on this one in the recommendations forum)
PS: Welcome aboard Brian88
Jim
-- Edited by jimricho on Wednesday 28th of September 2011 06:18:37 PM
The dingo choir must have been amazing in the quiet nights of the bush. The sky is so big out there.
Where is the cottage on your avatar?
Well a really BIG Happy Birthday to you Brian. Hope it has been a great day for you.
Cheers B
Seabreeze Caravan park at cannonvale Last year.....Two young female Backpackers getting it off.....(Ladies) In the unpowered site $10 per night
Then you go to the amenities block - pot plants everywhere, and inside. Not just any normal regular familiar pots. The pots are old TV cabinets, tea pots, boots, saucepans - literally anything that will hold moist dirt becomes a plant pot all around the property, holding a variety of plants and succulents, and even a climber or 2 in the bathroom. It's very unusual, but it's clean.
Jimbo ya must have a beter one than that!
Cheap entertainment if that's your thing..............oopps..........I didn't say that did I??
Drivin one night across the Barkly Tablelands to Benmara Station ,in the middle of the Gulf Country, in the middle of the night in winter, I could see this light in the distance moving backwards and forwards on the horizon in the black of night,(if any of you know what the nights are like out there)anyhow the truck I was driving was going about 80kms per hr, and I could see the light for hours going back and fourth,WELL I THOUGH MIN MIN LIGHT,then finally I came across what I really was, and wish I didnot.
As I approached ( by this time it was about 1am ,I could see this prime mover moving backwards and forwards pulling something on a trailer.
So there I was all night long helping this poor bloke who had run into a large beast and had a load of railway iron on his trailer slide into his sleeper(lucky for him ,the sleeper was there,otherwise,I would have been a lot sadder)Chaining one by one we were till daylight.
Happy birthday Brian. I hope you can remember it without the pain in the morning.
I hope tomorrow is a good day for you.
Did you get thier itinery for the next 12 months :)
WELCOME and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brian88.
We went there about 2 years ago CG, outside the office in the garden were numerous nude Barbie and Kenny dolls in with added appendages and associated hair, in various "positions"........There was a bobtail lizard in one of the shower cubicles along with frogs etc also.
-- Edited by Vic on Wednesday 28th of September 2011 09:44:13 PM
It doesn't seem to worry the frogs, they just continue to cling to the inside of the toilet bowl
-- Edited by Clare46 on Thursday 29th of September 2011 07:14:20 AM
Ma! I was parked opposite them......And they did'nt even have the tent closed...There was others staring at them..But because I am a gentleman...I closed my eyes and walked into a nearby tree......