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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby RUM57L » Monday Nov 01, 2010 9:53 am

earle wrote:Finally got to see your photos on my home computer Rum. Looks good. Is that your pink swag? :lol:

UPdate on the campertrailer. Put a deposit on one yesterday. Once you add annex and other bits and piece options it adds up. Will take delivery in late Feb/early March. Went with the Hitchmaster D035 hitch. From reading some forums the hyland has a couple of disadvantages - no shock absorption in the coupling to dampen vibrations to you car, a few people complained of shearing off padlocks when it swivelled beyond a certain point.


Good news on the campertrailer mate,

You may have dodged a bullet then going with the hitchmaster. How much warranty do they offer ?
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby earle » Monday Nov 01, 2010 10:50 am

Warranty is 12 months but that could be the standard for other ones anyway. They are fitted as standard on bushtracker and t-van so should last the distance.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby matr » Sunday Nov 14, 2010 10:57 pm

Just bought a tent today. :D And some other goodies like a folding table, pantry & a gas cooker.

Planning on using it for long weekends away with the family down SW of WA. I rekon the kids will love it..
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby billybushcook » Friday Nov 19, 2010 8:51 am

Just stumbled onto this thread.

So we do have a few closet campers / Campoven cooks on here.

This was the first forum I got involved with (yes the demise of another! :D ) It's called Camp Oven Cooking In Australia.
For those interested, there is a wealth of Recipes, ideas & other stuff to see & do. A few of us get together for a bash a couple of times a year, from all over the East Coast.

http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/cgi- ... b2/YaBB.pl

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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby SuperBroo » Friday Nov 19, 2010 10:09 am

Off with the caravan in 2 hours to York, WA, back late Sunday.

Van fridge is full of JSAA, happy times ahead.

Going to car museum, and chilling out :)

(Annual 3 days off) :)
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby warra48 » Friday Nov 19, 2010 6:19 pm

Grog wrote:Off with the caravan in 2 hours to York, WA, back late Sunday.

Van fridge is full of JSAA, happy times ahead.

Going to car museum, and chilling out :)

(Annual 3 days off) :)


I've been to that car museum in York. Very interesting. They used to have one of Alan Jones championship winning Williams cars, but I think they may have sold that.
Mrs warra's aunt and uncle live not far away, in Grass Valley.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby drunkpaul » Saturday Nov 20, 2010 11:05 pm

you're not alone in the snoring department rum. my mrs thinks im great at it. awsome pics. we often head up around tamworth,murry cod fishing.
we only use a small set up so we can pack up and go off for the day. are those tires wranglers?
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby BadSeed » Tuesday Jan 25, 2011 9:24 am

We are big campers. We started out with a $39 dome tent in the boot of our crappy old car.
This is where we are up to now
This is our full set up (some people might think a 12 man tent is overkill for a nuclear family)
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and for Bush/Free camping we travel a bit lighter :D
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Important things I have learned:
Coleman make excellent products.
OzTrail make very good products.
Waeco make very good products.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby elec » Saturday Jan 29, 2011 7:57 am

This is our 2-4 day setup for the six of us. Any longer trips tend to involve a second vehicle , second quad and boat. We are swags, skeeterdomes and tarp type folks, have a big mother tent and hate it...I find it too restricting ( and hot ) on where you can pull up in our local country. Most of the time we camp on the river banks, and there is rarely enough flat ground...

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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby Sonny » Friday Apr 29, 2011 8:23 am

My Easter camping weekend.
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That's my tent in the foreground. None of this caravan stuff around here.
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The river was luscious.
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The poor people with their commercial beer. My cousin has no beer in his hand as he is waiting for me to pour him one.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby earle » Friday Apr 29, 2011 8:41 am

Our Easter setup once the crowds had died down a bit. Big Crystal creek north of Townsville
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River was also lovely for swimming as it was quite hot during the day
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No open fires allowed so camp oven cooking was via heat beads.
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Bacon and chees damper, mmmmm
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No beer photos but it was there.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby Sonny » Friday Apr 29, 2011 9:08 am

Nice spot that Earle! Lovely looking river. We had great weather as well, but it was chokers with people. The place we were going to go to was washed out. A shame, as it is quite peaceful there. But your river looks ace!
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby earle » Friday Apr 29, 2011 11:20 am

When we got there this place was chockers as well with no space for us. Fortunately the rangers were there when we arrived so they organised some people to move their cars so we had somewhere to camp. Fortunately a lot of people only stayed for a night or two so after a couple of days its really quietened down.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby billybushcook » Friday Apr 29, 2011 1:35 pm

Sonny,
That spot looks suspiciously like the foot hils to Barrington?

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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby Sonny » Friday Apr 29, 2011 5:45 pm

billybushcook wrote:Sonny,
That spot looks suspiciously like the foot hils to Barrington?

Mick.

It is Mick, well almost. It's Bretti Reserve. (Thunderbolts Way)
We had plans to do a quiet part of Chichester Forest, but due to the weekend's prior downpour or rather, mass soaking it proved almost impassable, albeit camp-worthy. So we waddled further north to our old favorite in hope of a decent spot of land.
We found it up high.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby rotten » Tuesday May 03, 2011 10:47 pm

All you guys looked so cramped at your sites. I didn't take any pics as i left technology at home, but our campsite was awesome !!
Right on the Mighty Murray, Miles from anywhere, plenty of yabbies, open fire, and best of all, NO PHONE COVERAGE :lol:
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby Sonny » Tuesday May 03, 2011 10:55 pm

rotten wrote:.... but our campsite was awesome !!

and are you going to share that info Rotten?

I went for ride into Victoria about 6 weeks ago. We saw a lot of camping places and vans along the mighty Murray, although it wasn't holiday time. Anywhere awesome and possible for travel from NSW for a camp is always good to know. It's a lovely state Victoria, it's just the weather that I find disheartening at times.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby rotten » Wednesday May 04, 2011 9:56 am

I will share this much, I was on the NSW side of the river this time, just over the border. Lat year was the Vic side of the river, just over the border. Doesn't matter which side really, it's all good.
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby Sonny » Wednesday May 04, 2011 3:10 pm

rotten wrote:I will share this much, I was on the NSW side of the river this time, just over the border. Lat year was the Vic side of the river, just over the border. Doesn't matter which side really, it's all good.

Forgive me Rotten, but is this close to where you were?
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Re: Camping Anyone?

Postby rotten » Wednesday May 04, 2011 3:22 pm

I wish.
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