Camping etiquette. .. pondering

[Fidon]

Just after a little feedback after a hilarious night camping at a reserve at least 80kms from a major town and a good 20km from nearest one pub dont blink village.

Due to remoteness and lack of facilities we'd always assumed it was a place frequented by quiet naturelovers.. and had been the case in the past experiences.

So we rocked up at 2pm. A little test for the recent wheel bearing replacements and service run before doing something more extreme next month.

There were 3 others already set up in the paddock.
1) tent x 2 attached to the shelter shed... and also right on the edge of walking track to river. Dog not on leash.
2) swag man.. attached to the smaller shelter shed at the other end. The only other picnic table.
2 dogs kept on lead.
3) 2 young families parked in the shade down swag mans end.

So.. we parked and set up under our favourite oak tree... about 20 meters to the river track as I had the kayak with me.

Young families.. parents spent the afternoon sitting on their rumps bellowing at their kids. And not discouraging them at all from invading swagmans space which set his dogs off at regular intervals.
Swag man apparently had an smp for his electric guitar and spent afternoon playing it to drown out the screaming parents.
Tenters ... played music from their car until their battery went flat to drown out the bellowing parents and swagmans not so skilled guitar playing.

Tenters dog kept wanting to wander over to us to check out our 18month husky sheppard cross "pup" who was tied up / on leash entire time... even when in the river with us. Each time tenters dog came over ours did its best "this is my territory" which of course created a chorus with swagmans dog.

Wind forward river was lovely lots of crimson rosellas.. great on the water afternoon... nice starlight night set in.

Parents stopped bellowing around 730..kids in bed.
Swagman goes quiet
Battery on tenters car dies.

Serenity is aquired.

Nice dinner.. we head to bed at 830 as I get up early to kayak as the sun rises..gorgeous time for the birds..
9pm. We get woken by now non bellowing parent chopping wood. Whattha?
3 out of 4 camp sites are at lights out stage and its ok to chop wood ?

Swag man gets up and takes some of his wood over... but they continue to chop a log ?

Sleep comes round again lovely.

I promise it wasn't me pulling calves tails at 630am that had the cattle moooooing and bellowing next day but I did chuckle.

And it was a sheepish tenter who came over with a jump start request...

Swagman was also a prettyboy.. so he provided entertainment with his morning exercises routine.. including but not limited to some shadow boxing.

And the crimson rosellas called in their mates and put on a lovely display.

But I ask..when did it become acceptable to hog shelter sheds and picnic tables?
When did it become acceptable to not control your pet?
When did it become acceptable to scream at your kids whilst you sit on your bum ?
When did it become acceptable to play loud music with complete disregard to others ?

And ive not even started on whoever was last under the oak tree and had left rubbish and food scraps everywhere..

In the past 12 months ive witnesses some strange strange selfish behaviour. . Is this common ?

[Shortlegs & Baz]

G'Day Mate ,
Seems to be the norm these days, nobody has any thought or respect for any thing but their own pursuits. We wonder why the word is in the state it is.
Cheers
Baz

[robcaz]

We have encounter rowdies on weekends in various spots over the years & very similar to what you have experienced, motor bikes all hours of the day & night, loud music etc. There are some places we just avoid now especially on weekends & only camp in some places during the week making sure we are clear by Friday afternoon.

We prefer camping on private property these days away from the close to town camps. We have packed up at 12.30 at night & driven a hour & a half home once.

We camped at Woolshed Flat Camping Area in Turon National Park near Capertee in March with no facilities. We could not believe the amount of toilet paper around the area compete with you know what in the middle of the track. Some people really need to stay at home.

[jw2170]

Good points, Fidon.

The only saving grace is that is does not happen at every camp spot....

Like Rob, we plan to camp during the week most times..

[nomudfalcon]

Fidon
A tear to my eyes (funny), sounds like you had a great time except for ......!
Sometimes it pays to be deaf, pretend to speak another language and sit on the otherside of the tent out there!

I have another great moment in time, recent trip Sept 15 to the Flinders - Two buddies & better halfs in tow
each with very large $ x $ vans I bet their homes are smaller provided comical entertainment for about an hour on their arrival
seeing how close they could park to each other, dodging large rocks and logs (back and forth, back and forth)
I must admit they did give us some space and only heard some 4 letter words a couple of times so the distance was good.
The weather was warm during the day, rather cool when venturing out for that first one in the moning, but not overly cold.

Now it's the first time I have come across this, 6am (sun not quite up) I'm awoken by a sound I had heard before but I thought I was dreaming
and in this dream it seemed I was near what sounded like a RAAF base where they had just fired up 2 F18 Hornets
only to once the brain started working realise it was both these vans cranking up their gas fired heaters, so I have worked out
I was not yet far enough in to the scrub of our great land, I think we need to go further NW somewhere west of Ayers Rock!
But as night follows day they'll find me out there too.

John & Judy
Safe travels.

[Karen Jackson]

Thank you very much for bringing up the discussion. http://livecustomwriting.com/blog/key-p ... -etiquette is another thing, which is good to discuss and to write on at the same time. Look it up.

[GEOFF.PAULINE]

Hi. We have all been there at some time.

Think you have a nice spot and then it all starts.

I don't refer to it as disrespect , I call it lack of law & order.

If its Council area , they do not care , they will not spend money on Rangers to patrol.

Police patrols calling in and inspecting whats happening , and dealing with what needs to be sorted. Only once at lake Wallace I saw this.

And last but not least its US , I don't challenge them , do you , no , because we don't know what reaction we might get.

I just hope there are more of us , and I'm sure there are. There is at least 8 thousand and they are part of this forum/group

I'll end with the famous quote.

FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IN THIS WORLD , GOOD MEN SIMPLY NEED TO DO NOTHING.

Cheers Geoff.

[Campers]

Dear all, We have just finished a 6 month camper trailer trip from Sydney, up the east coast, over to Uluru, up the gulf country, into FNQ and back down the coast. I thought it was just me, however, I found that camping in Australia is very noisy. If not duelling gennies, some left unattended during the day to ensure the milk stays cold, radio going with horse racing results for 6 hours, barking dogs left in trailers and vans while the owners see the sights, locals and others testing out their new quad and dirt bikes, happening to hit a lovely site on the same day of the month as council doing their mowing, blowing and whipper snipping for a few hours, showground managers springing on you at 5pm that they have hired out the big shed across the paddock for an 18th birthday party starting in 3 hours, that air conditioners kick in on a van across the paddock when the temperature starts to get below 20 degrees, that group of 6 that has just parked and camped 30 metres away and haven't seen each other for nearly 2 weeks and the excitement is just infectious, the caravaner getting up at 5 am, hitching and banging and out by 6am so he can be at the next site 70kms away before 8.30 am, the walk arounderer on the mobile phone telling daughter how quiet it is in camp area, lets see how much wood we can chop in a day group, and knowing the party is going to be a doozie. We found that saying anything makes you the culprit, and having exposed your button, it then gets pushed regularly.