This is a good one to play with, no doubt most of you would enjoy the outside life of camp sites, ie getting drunk with the mates, cooking, sitting there watching the roos try and steal your bread of the camp table, or in the case of the Southern areas them bloody cheeky rabbits, now for the cheap minded like me and Ive been branded the next best thing to a ducks bum for tightness, this helps with bugs that annoy your night activities and finding your way to that favorite tree, grab a few of them stainless path lights from a hardware shop the solar jobs just pop em around your site, good things to have, and them bamboo things with the oil pots u can scam for 5 bux from Bunnings, fill them with citronella, Im a fan of kero lanterns these too can be blended with citronella, anything to keep them little mozzys away, might help someone out lol
Cruising Granny said
06:23 AM Feb 10, 2012
All good ideas, but where do you stow all that stuff when mobile? I have a kero lantern for citronella, but I'm looking for a couple of really compact solar lights for the camp. I have them in my garden at the park. Too much light, too many bugs.
gst said
10:03 AM Feb 10, 2012
The solar lights are Great but when your free camping they mark your camp site to everyone passingthe best to get are the motion solar lights that you can hang on your van plus if anyone comes near your camp they will warn you and when they go off they will scare off unwanted guests.
-- Edited by gst on Friday 10th of February 2012 10:05:18 AM
-- Edited by gst on Friday 10th of February 2012 10:07:25 AM
dropbear68 said
10:22 PM Feb 10, 2012
We have 2 staffy bullys to keep the perverts away lol, this stuff doesnt take up much room should be able to stash em somewhere
fireheart said
12:02 AM Feb 11, 2012
Great posting. Things that I would never have thought of, but can see it is necessary as one is out and about on the road.
Sharon.
gst said
12:33 AM Feb 11, 2012
Very good to see you have body guards
dropbear68 said
03:47 AM Feb 11, 2012
Never leave home without the staffys, knowones gonna try get in with them two dogs keeping watch
Cruising Granny said
07:28 AM Feb 11, 2012
When I'm on the road working, we usually pull up just on dark and leave just on light. We can't do escorts at night unless it's a special job. I have a couple of trusty torches and a couple of LED lights around my "spare room", which is my camp bed under the awning attached to the side of my Landcruiser. Too much light gives the bugs somewhere to go for their nocturnal mating activities. If I'm not, they can't! I'm now considering a solar sensor light for my camp and the van. The van is parked in a park with lots of street lights, so that's not a serious problem, but I do like to deter the light-fingered Louie's who may go window shopping around the park at night. The go shopping in the daylight as well. I lost a pushbike about 4 weeks ago to someone who obviously needed it more than I did. I wonder what it was worth at Cash Converters?
dropbear68 said
03:40 AM Feb 12, 2012
What is the country coming too when you cant even hang onto your own pushy
This is a good one to play with, no doubt most of you would enjoy the outside life of camp sites, ie getting drunk with the mates, cooking, sitting there watching the roos try and steal your bread of the camp table, or in the case of the Southern areas them bloody cheeky rabbits, now for the cheap minded like me and Ive been branded the next best thing to a ducks bum for tightness, this helps with bugs that annoy your night activities and finding your way to that favorite tree, grab a few of them stainless path lights from a hardware shop the solar jobs just pop em around your site, good things to have, and them bamboo things with the oil pots u can scam for 5 bux from Bunnings, fill them with citronella, Im a fan of kero lanterns these too can be blended with citronella, anything to keep them little mozzys away, might help someone out lol
I have a kero lantern for citronella, but I'm looking for a couple of really compact solar lights for the camp. I have them in my garden at the park. Too much light, too many bugs.
The solar lights are Great but when your free camping they mark your camp site to everyone passingthe best to get are the motion solar lights that you can hang on your van plus if anyone comes near your camp they will warn you and when they go off they will scare off unwanted guests.
-- Edited by gst on Friday 10th of February 2012 10:05:18 AM
-- Edited by gst on Friday 10th of February 2012 10:07:25 AM
Sharon.
Very good to see you have body guards
Never leave home without the staffys, knowones gonna try get in with them two dogs keeping watch
I have a couple of trusty torches and a couple of LED lights around my "spare room", which is my camp bed under the awning attached to the side of my Landcruiser. Too much light gives the bugs somewhere to go for their nocturnal mating activities. If I'm not, they can't!
I'm now considering a solar sensor light for my camp and the van. The van is parked in a park with lots of street lights, so that's not a serious problem, but I do like to deter the light-fingered Louie's who may go window shopping around the park at night.
The go shopping in the daylight as well. I lost a pushbike about 4 weeks ago to someone who obviously needed it more than I did.
I wonder what it was worth at Cash Converters?