What have you seen in a Caravan Park that surprised you?

Gerty Dancer · Guru

What have you seen in a Caravan Park that surprised you?

Ma · Guru

At the Dalrymple (?spelling) Van Park in Charters Towers they put fresh flowers in the amenities EVERY morning. A lovely touch.

Firefly · Guru

At Burketown, they have frogs in their toilets, scared my pants off but super cute. smile

Ma · Guru

Can beat that one Fly. At Lee Point in Darwin they have cane toads in their toilets....lol

Beth54 · Guru

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 · Guru

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! biggrin

Ma · Guru

Or make you go back to the van to change your undies............

Mr Red · Veteran Member

Hi Firefly,

Just imagine what you did to the frog. biggrin biggrin biggrin

Mr Red.

Brian88 · Senior Member

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?

jimricho · Guru

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

Brian88 · Senior Member

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 · Guru

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 · Senior Member

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).

Boroma577 · Guru

Brian88 wrote:
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 · Guru

Seabreeze Caravan park at cannonvale Last year.....Two young female Backpackers getting it off.....(Ladies) In the unpowered site $10 per night

Cruising Granny · Guru

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 · Senior Member

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 · Senior Member

happy birthday brian 88

Ma · Guru

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 · Guru

You did Ma.

Pejay · Guru

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 · Senior Member

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 · Guru

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 · Senior Member

Did you get thier itinery for the next 12 months :)

Travel Bug · Guru

WELCOME and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brian88.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Welcome Brian and Happy Birthday.

Vic · Guru

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 · Senior Member

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 · Senior Member

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 · Guru

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......