The Camping Thread

[luna moth]

Ohhh, Alexandra is gorgeous. Might not be after the floods though? (dunno, I'm miles away?)

Lulu I did a 12000km trip with a mate when I was 20. We did it in a Patrol, no trailer, just tent up every night in whatever spot we were staying. We navigated by playing scissors paper rock with loose goals of making it to Perth for New Years and Melbourne for Australia Day. Probably not the same as what you're looking at doing though

Boydtown Caravan Park just south of Eden is one of my favourite spots. It's right behind the beach, and very open and lovely. Not squared off site boxes, a little more haphazard than that.
Johanna Beach on the Great Ocean Road is another beautiful spot. We were the only people there on our first night (late Jan, but still in school hols) and we had a seal swim up to us on the beach. Beautiful walks to be done in each direction too.

Would love some tips on where to go within reach of Brissie. We've just bought a car so that we can start camping again, but being southern in origin, we're clueless

[sconeonamission]

Within reach of Brissie...... I'm planning one to Stradbroke Island for a long weekend in a few weeks! It's the same postcode, but hey! A camping trip on an island? I'm looking forward to it! We only have a 4man tent...and when I say 4 man, I mean that's probably all you'd fit. At the moment we fit our air bed and ds' camper stretcher with enough room for another stretcher at the bottom of air bed and stretcher... I can't imagine how we'll go when baby joins the fun! Where are we going to sleep baby?!

Friends of ours sold everything they had bought a motorhome with a trailer that had a 'toy' 4wd (suzuki sierra) and a tinny for a good price (I think they're trying to sell it coz now it's too big for the two of them - they originally had the her 15yo daughter with them too) and are on their way around Australia. They're currently in Bundaberg.

[Rach75]

batemans bay big 4 beach resort right on the beach beautiful facilites, wonderful staff, the most awesome camp kitchen and its so close you can base yourself there and do dozens of day trips to different things

wehn we did our holiday earlier this year I told jase I would retire and live in a van park if I could live here LOL

[AnyDream]

batemans bay big 4 beach resort right on the beach beautiful facilites, wonderful staff, the most awesome camp kitchen and its so close you can base yourself there and do dozens of day trips to different things

wehn we did our holiday earlier this year I told jase I would retire and live in a van park if I could live here LOL

Totally second the Bateman's Bay Big 4 - it is gorgeous and you are totally beachside there. We stayed in one of their cabins - bit pricey but OMG deluxe - even had an enormous spa bath for crying out loud! That's my kinda camping LOL.

Also want to put in a mention for Hervey Bay - there are a couple of van parks along the foreshore there - gorgeous location tho not sure about facilities or price etc.

We stayed in a great place in Brisbane - Brisbane Holiday Village - fantastic pool & playground for kids, really clean new facilities. We stayed in a cabin here as well, 4 star - it was fantastic. Would love to have lingered longer. While we were there DH and I did fantasise about camping trailers, and my latest obsession is campervans - after seeing the 3 guys in their vintage revamped VB going around UK on that telly show last month!

[Asparagus and Lemons]

Love to join up.
We are big campers and we usually go camping about 4 weekends a year plus a 2 week camp sometime during the year when dh has holidays. We are looking forward to when we can start going camping again with DD!
We feel like we are 'well set up' too
We use a good tent (an 8 man) and Im certain it will fit a portacot in it if that is what we end up using when we take DD out.
We have a 'saucepans' box
A 'utensils' box with all the cups, plates bowls & cuttlery
And a 'camping' box with toilet paper, fire starters, cans of random food, sponges etc
We have a bench with a zip up cupcoard underneath, we also store our plates in there
And we also have a kitchen sink! We found it on hard garbage but it was broken so we fixed it! Oh and I cant forget our fold up bbq!
We love going camping, the only problem is not having a toilet when we are going bush. I can imagine it will be hard with dd. So we may start with the big4 parks first with her so we have ammendities (sp?)
Dh has long service leave coming up in a year or 2, so we will probably do a big drive along the coast right round aus. SHould be exciting!!!