We spend nearly a week a Caravan Park in Dalesford and it was quiet enjoyable. $ 30.00 a night "mid season ". Clean park, some sites with concrete slabs, nice walks around the lake and up nugget hill area. Just a short walk from the park is a mineral spring ," Soda Spring ". We got some mineral water from it and took it home , after two days we had to tip it away ,it tasted very bad . Dalesford is a nice place and prices are resonable. Lots of antique shops , but a few were closed .
One negative point for the c.park ,the showers and toilets were not cleaned for the time we were there ,lucky there were clean campers staying over nights. Also in high season ,I think there are not enough showers and toilets .
As for the Aliner , we decided to put the awnig up , what a struggle , it took us over a hour ,lots of coursing . Is there an easier way of doing it, (apart of getting some body else to do it )?
Cheers Hans
herbie said
11:57 PM Mar 3, 2013
Just wondering what that c/ park would of charged you per night if they had cleaned the toilets every day,,by the way it is a requirerment by the health and saftey standards of Aus/N/Z that public toilets /showers are to be cleaned each day.Some times more if dirty and unhygenic or a danger to the public...Thought i would take a look at what people's report in Badgers web site repected , but ithere is no reports avaliable..needs un up date it is saying.Maybe you could leave your report there for others to know before hand that no cleaning was done the whole time you were there....We are seeing this more and more of late , guess it cuts wages down.
-- Edited by herbie on Monday 4th of March 2013 12:38:50 AM
Cupie said
01:53 AM Mar 4, 2013
I've got a bottle of that 'Soda Spring' water in a bottle on the bookshelf in my study. Got it when we were last in Dalesford around 2005. I think that we pumped it from an old fashioned lever operated pump beside a walking track. Sits beside a fancy bottle of 'Holy Water" that I got out of a tap at Lourdes.
No experience with awnings on an A Van, but if they run in a track along the wall/roof arch, then a squirt of silicon spray helps the awning edge slide freely in the track. To fit the side wall of my annex I spray the track first & then it's a two person job with one pulling & the other guiding the wall into the track.
Duh said
02:50 AM Mar 4, 2013
Hans,
Regards the awning, It should not take you that long (unless you are talking about the full annex, not just the awning).
If you have the owners manual there should be an instruction telling you how to do it, I vaguely remember from mine putting one side into the track first while down, raising the roof then doing the other side while up, but can't quite remember now. You can thread both sides through while down, then get underneath the canvas and push the lot upwards, but it is very heavy and difficult that way.
Maybe one of the current A'van owners on here can elaborate and explain how to do it, I am sure they would have an awning. If you don't have an Owners Manual perhaps one of the Avan camper owners on here could send you a copy of the relevant page by email.
Good luck with that. Have a look at this modification that someone did on theirs;
-- Edited by Duh on Monday 4th of March 2013 03:53:14 AM
Duh said
10:06 PM Mar 4, 2013
Duh wrote:
Hans,
Regards the awning, It should not take you that long (unless you are talking about the full annex, not just the awning).
If you have the owners manual there should be an instruction telling you how to do it, I vaguely remember from mine putting one side into the track first while down, raising the roof then doing the other side while up, but can't quite remember now. You can thread both sides through while down, then get underneath the canvas and push the lot upwards, but it is very heavy and difficult that way.
Maybe one of the current A'van owners on here can elaborate and explain how to do it, I am sure they would have an awning. If you don't have an Owners Manual perhaps one of the Avan camper owners on here could send you a copy of the relevant page by email.
Good luck with that. Have a look at this modification that someone did on theirs;
Hi Duh, I got the manual , but it was still very difficult to put up, the problem are the sharp edges were the rope comes out and then in to the lower roof.If a channel could be made like a slight "S" bend coming up from the lower roof and lined up with the higher roof ,that may work . Next time I will put some silicon spray on the channels like Cupie suggested and thanks for the Avan links.
Hi Cupie, we got the water from Deep Creek, it was running out of a pipe and yes you are right ,the Soda Spring got a pump on it's side.The water from Deep Creek tasted like rust after a few days, yuck.
Herbie , I would say that the cleaning is contracted out, as long it is clean why worry? My wife cleaned the sink twice in the ladys and I wiped the bench in the males a few times until I run out of paper towels.( I could have used the ones from the waste bin ,it was full ). But like I said before , the place was clean. The person in the office was very nice and helpfull ,he let us pick our own side.
Cheers Hans
Golddetectornomad said
02:49 PM Mar 5, 2013
A week without cleaning the ablution block and you paid $200 odd for the priviledge?......had they just been cleaned when you arrived Hans?.......you were indeed fortunate that, that 'scarlet pimpernel' of most C/Parks who seems to appear after a day or two...'the Phantom Gastric Sprayer' did not make an appearance....you know the bloke I mean who comes into the ablution block early in the morning and invariably occupies the cubicle next to you..makes a hell of a lot of almost non human noises...cleans his nasal passages and every other passage as well with much "gastric gusto", and seems to take an indeterminable time to leave while you wait quietly with your fingers in your ears whilst holding ones nose,waiting for his exit........I have never actually seen his human form just heard his antics and certainly 'seen' where he has been.....he invariably dabbles in tooth paste art on the mirror and sink as well together with other sundry unidentifiables before his final exit/curtain call......and then you leave the block, and wonder to yourself who the hell it is of the folk you are now waving and smiling to, in the usual way, on the way back to your van....half expecting to see this 'Yeti' 'phantom gastric culprit' still 'scooting' along some medium strip 'doggie style'...but no...only his whiff could identify him.........or am I the only 'chosen' one who seems to encounter this phenomenon at nearly every C/Pk stay?........perhaps he is a member of this Forum......?...Lol....he certainly gets around all over this great Land......and obviously enjoys his own company far more than I do...doesn't matter how early you get up to enjoy a 'quiet' interlude...he's waiting to pounce......Hoo Roo....
Recoup said
03:34 PM Mar 5, 2013
Some CP play music and have big exhaust fans in the amenity block ,now I know why .
Hans
herbie said
10:36 PM Mar 5, 2013
Golddetectornomad wrote:
A week without cleaning the ablution block and you paid $200 odd for the priviledge?......had they just been cleaned when you arrived Hans?.......you were indeed fortunate that, that 'scarlet pimpernel' of most C/Parks who seems to appear after a day or two...'the Phantom Gastric Sprayer' did not make an appearance....you know the bloke I mean who comes into the ablution block early in the morning and invariably occupies the cubicle next to you..makes a hell of a lot of almost non human noises...cleans his nasal passages and every other passage as well with much "gastric gusto", and seems to take an indeterminable time to leave while you wait quietly with your fingers in your ears whilst holding ones nose,waiting for his exit........I have never actually seen his human form just heard his antics and certainly 'seen' where he has been.....he invariably dabbles in tooth paste art on the mirror and sink as well together with other sundry unidentifiables before his final exit/curtain call......and then you leave the block, and wonder to yourself who the hell it is of the folk you are now waving and smiling to, in the usual way, on the way back to your van....half expecting to see this 'Yeti' 'phantom gastric culprit' still 'scooting' along some medium strip 'doggie style'...but no...only his whiff could identify him.........or am I the only 'chosen' one who seems to encounter this phenomenon at nearly every C/Pk stay?........perhaps he is a member of this Forum......?...Lol....he certainly gets around all over this great Land......and obviously enjoys his own company far more than I do...doesn't matter how early you get up to enjoy a 'quiet' interlude...he's waiting to pounce......Hoo Roo....
Next we will be handed a cloth and toilet brush as we enter some of these c/ parks .The poor man should of been payed to stay there, as sounds like he was doing his share of the cleaning. OOPS he also had a helper from another paying guest as well. So not bad $30 per night and you do the cleaning.That is why i mentioned in my first post ..re how much would of he had to pay if there was some cleaning done .
-- Edited by herbie on Tuesday 5th of March 2013 10:37:47 PM
Duh said
01:18 AM Mar 6, 2013
Recoup wrote:
Hi Duh, I got the manual , but it was still very difficult to put up, the problem are the sharp edges were the rope comes out and then in to the lower roof.If a channel could be made like a slight "S" bend coming up from the lower roof and lined up with the higher roof ,that may work .
If you make the sharp edges into a bell shape and file off smooth that might help. From memory, we put a screwdriver onto the rope (only to hold it) and slid the rope along with the screw driver to help with getting the rope along the track. Not sure about the "S" bend bit though. The lower bit only had a track part way along the bottom (hence if you only slid the top bit in first then raised the roof you could do the lower bit after it was up) so that was done after it was up (and hooked onto the little catch on the top). Slide the rope into the lower bit and use a broom handle to fold over the velcro strip on the lower bit. Also used the broom handle to unclip the catch on the apex when putting it down.
Send Dougwe a pm and ask him how he does it, he may not be reading this thread.
Good luck,
Vic
Happywanderer said
06:58 AM Mar 6, 2013
I love Daylesford. I go through there from one set of family to the other. Love the old buildings, have taken heaps of photos there.
herbie said
07:09 AM Mar 6, 2013
Happywanderer wrote:
I love Daylesford. I go through there from one set of family to the other. Love the old buildings, have taken heaps of photos there.
We love the place as well, so much to offer the travelling public ,but this kind of service from this c/ park ,gives it a bad name.
We spend nearly a week a Caravan Park in Dalesford and it was quiet enjoyable. $ 30.00 a night "mid season ". Clean park, some sites with concrete slabs, nice walks around the lake and up nugget hill area. Just a short walk from the park is a mineral spring ," Soda Spring ". We got some mineral water from it and took it home , after two days we had to tip it away ,it tasted very bad . Dalesford is a nice place and prices are resonable. Lots of antique shops , but a few were closed .
One negative point for the c.park ,the showers and toilets were not cleaned for the time we were there ,lucky there were clean campers staying over nights. Also in high season ,I think there are not enough showers and toilets .
As for the Aliner , we decided to put the awnig up , what a struggle , it took us over a hour ,lots of coursing . Is there an easier way of doing it, (apart of getting some body else to do it )?
Cheers Hans
Just wondering what that c/ park would of charged you per night if they had cleaned the toilets every day,,by the way it is a requirerment by the health and saftey standards of Aus/N/Z that public toilets /showers are to be cleaned each day.Some times more if dirty and unhygenic or a danger to the public...Thought i would take a look at what people's report in Badgers web site repected , but ithere is no reports avaliable..needs un up date it is saying.Maybe you could leave your report there for others to know before hand that no cleaning was done the whole time you were there....We are seeing this more and more of late , guess it cuts wages down.
-- Edited by herbie on Monday 4th of March 2013 12:38:50 AM
I've got a bottle of that 'Soda Spring' water in a bottle on the bookshelf in my study. Got it when we were last in Dalesford around 2005. I think that we pumped it from an old fashioned lever operated pump beside a walking track. Sits beside a fancy bottle of 'Holy Water" that I got out of a tap at Lourdes.
No experience with awnings on an A Van, but if they run in a track along the wall/roof arch, then a squirt of silicon spray helps the awning edge slide freely in the track. To fit the side wall of my annex I spray the track first & then it's a two person job with one pulling & the other guiding the wall into the track.
Hans,
Regards the awning, It should not take you that long (unless you are talking about the full annex, not just the awning).
If you have the owners manual there should be an instruction telling you how to do it, I vaguely remember from mine putting one side into the track first while down, raising the roof then doing the other side while up, but can't quite remember now. You can thread both sides through while down, then get underneath the canvas and push the lot upwards, but it is very heavy and difficult that way.
Maybe one of the current A'van owners on here can elaborate and explain how to do it, I am sure they would have an awning. If you don't have an Owners Manual perhaps one of the Avan camper owners on here could send you a copy of the relevant page by email.
Good luck with that. Have a look at this modification that someone did on theirs;
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ekthomas/giblin.html
-- Edited by Duh on Monday 4th of March 2013 03:53:14 AM
Here is another link for mods on the Avans...
http://www.sccavanners.com/modifications.htm
Hi Duh, I got the manual , but it was still very difficult to put up, the problem are the sharp edges were the rope comes out and then in to the lower roof.If a channel could be made like a slight "S" bend coming up from the lower roof and lined up with the higher roof ,that may work . Next time I will put some silicon spray on the channels like Cupie suggested and thanks for the Avan links.
Hi Cupie, we got the water from Deep Creek, it was running out of a pipe and yes you are right ,the Soda Spring got a pump on it's side.The water from Deep Creek tasted like rust after a few days, yuck
.
Herbie , I would say that the cleaning is contracted out, as long it is clean why worry? My wife cleaned the sink twice in the ladys and I wiped the bench in the males a few times until I run out of paper towels.( I could have used the ones from the waste bin ,it was full
). But like I said before , the place was clean. The person in the office was very nice and helpfull ,he let us pick our own side.
Cheers Hans
Some CP play music and have big exhaust fans in the amenity block ,now I know why
.
Hans
Next we will be handed a cloth and toilet brush as we enter some of these c/ parks .The poor man should of been payed to stay there, as sounds like he was doing his share of the cleaning. OOPS he also had a helper from another paying guest as well. So not bad $30 per night and you do the cleaning.That is why i mentioned in my first post ..re how much would of he had to pay if there was some cleaning done .
-- Edited by herbie on Tuesday 5th of March 2013 10:37:47 PM
If you make the sharp edges into a bell shape and file off smooth that might help. From memory, we put a screwdriver onto the rope (only to hold it) and slid the rope along with the screw driver to help with getting the rope along the track. Not sure about the "S" bend bit though. The lower bit only had a track part way along the bottom (hence if you only slid the top bit in first then raised the roof you could do the lower bit after it was up) so that was done after it was up (and hooked onto the little catch on the top). Slide the rope into the lower bit and use a broom handle to fold over the velcro strip on the lower bit. Also used the broom handle to unclip the catch on the apex when putting it down.
Send Dougwe a pm and ask him how he does it, he may not be reading this thread.
Good luck,
Vic
We love the place as well, so much to offer the travelling public ,but this kind of service from this c/ park ,gives it a bad name.