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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: McGirr on September 07, 2012, 09:26:52 AM
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With all the new technology we have and the things we now see as a must for camping, it is interesting that we tow close to a mobile home when we go away.
I see alot of members now up grading to vans and more accessorised campers with the lot, Please don't get we wrong as its great to see people getting out and about, but have we now defined camping as more glamorous with the lot.
I understand some people only enjoy camping at caravan parks but the concept of camping has changed dramatically over the years.
Gee I remember camping in the bush near Walget NSW when I was younger with only a tent, no refridgeration etc for a week with my parents.
Now I am embarrassed to say I have 2 fridges , generator , led lights, camper trailer etc.
Could we spend a week camping the old fashion way !!
Mark
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Sounds like a good idea.
We have been tenting it for the past 10 years, and really have had very little in the way of mod cons, a tropical icebox, gas stove etc.
Our main concession has been camping in areas that have amenities blocks, but this is to accommodate those with younger families and some of us who wouldn't camp without proper toilets.
Bunyip
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Used to go camping to get away from everything, now you take everything with you cause you can't be without it.
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For me, the joy of camping is being out in the bush, preferably not in a caravan park, and enjoying the convivial exchanges one has with fellow campers, and cooking & eating out doors, and being able to see the stars & smell the breeze.
Fortunately Mrs T & I are in the position where we can do this in comfort with our Quantum, which I consider to be an ensuite bedroom on wheels. Comfy bed, fridge, gadgets, no chance of toads plopping on one's face in the night, and it allows us to enjoy the bits we want to enjoy.
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It's not only our camper/caravans that have become more like home.
When we were kids the only facilities at the c/p were the toilets/showers, now we have jumping pillows, tennis courts, playgrounds for the kids, swimming pools not to mention the en suites (even for those in a tent)
It does make the kids and the wife really happy to go away.
but it is still better to camp like this than to spend the weekend at home working around the house.
Richard
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We have come back to "basics" with the purchase of our 4WD - we previously had a VW camper which we converted ourselves to suit our needs - pretty basic layout but very comfortable - with us the destination not the drive is the thing. we love to get away from the crowds and just sit back and listen to nature - and to be sitting around a campfire at night out in the bush is as good as it gets as far as we are concerned :D
Now we have a tent - a Black Wolf turbo - and are "roughing it" compared to the VW days.... however we can now get to more remote locations so it's a trade off that we are happy to make.
Having said all this we are looking at CTs and really like the look of the Aussie Swag - it seems to tick all the boxes for what we want in a CT, sure it's exxy $$$ but it'll pay for itself in wonderful holidays in this amazing country of ours so I think that's the way we'll go.
Both my wife and I had parents who took us camping as kids and I'm glad they did... we both love to get away from the big smoke - no phones, TV, computers - just the peace of the aussie bush to lull you to sleep at night.....doesn't get much better in my opinion.
cheers
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as long as i have canvas over my head it' still camping for me.
when i first started camping it was done in the back of my '70 HG Belmont wagon, no sleeping bag, just an old blanket and my pillow was a rolled up jacket. food was snags, drink was jim beam my loo was beyond the tree line.
music was provided by a ferris radio cassette that went until the car battery went flat
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We have tried camping both with 2 kids and now 3 kids and we decided we HAD to get a camper trailer - trying to fit everything into/on the prado just wasn't easy and led to everything being sat near the car so i could play tetris to fit it all in. But we are having a few nice luxuries fitted to the Camper like the Drifta DPOR with fridgebox for the fridge, the prado has a fridge in it as well constantly being used - my reasoning is if i have a few luxuries which keep the lil squidlets happy (and us sane) then they will be happy to go again next time.
That said around here out of the main bush camping areas there are only 4 out of the 11 that have toilets - no showers available so we have no choice but opt for the bush so long as the dingos, buffalos, snakes and other nasty critters stay away. But another 3 loong weeks til we pick up the Camper and i'm already planning our next camping trip when we get back.
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Same here, we were borrowing a mates trailer when we were going away over the last 18 months with the tent. We needed a trailer but after the last outing in winter (tents really don't have any insulation in them do they!!) we decided that we would start looking for the camper trailer. At least the Canvas should provide a little more warmth. Little is better than nothing at all!
So with that we should have enough room for everything in the CT, toolbox and will also only need one car when we go away.
We pick ours up in about 2 weeks and our next trip away is over new years...however I suspect someone's going to want to get away for at least a night somewhere to test it out before then :)
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My CT us currently for sale.
We have gotten used to taking so much crap with us the Mrs and I decided that we are going to trim back to basic stuff.
We will be getting another ct. But much smaller and lighter than the current one, not to mention better quality.
I have just sold two crappy old box trailers and bought one good gal offroad one and the roof top tent idea is really appealing to us at the moment......but we are still working out what we do with the tin lids as they are a bit young to be in their own tent.
Cheers Nomad.
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With all the new technology we have and the things we now see as a must for camping, it is interesting that we tow close to a mobile home when we go away.
I see alot of members now up grading to vans and more accessorised campers with the lot, Please don't get we wrong as its great to see people getting out and about, but have we now defined camping as more glamorous with the lot.
I understand some people only enjoy camping at caravan parks but the concept of camping has changed dramatically over the years.
Gee I remember camping in the bush near Walget NSW when I was younger with only a tent, no refridgeration etc for a week with my parents.
Now I am embarrassed to say I have 2 fridges , generator , led lights, camper trailer etc.
Could we spend a week camping the old fashion way !!
Mark
I've even seen one with a gas oven, rice cooker and electric toaster and fry pan........... ;D ;D ;D
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Yes for some, and No for others. I think it depends on how you camped when younger.
I was bought up camping from day dot. My parents couldn't afford fancy stuff so we never really had it. A bucket contained all our kitchen gear and was the sink & shower. They upgraded to a tent when we kids came along, then decked out the rear of the ute to contain all the important stuff. Eventually we girls got older and our camping style changed. The car got bigger (think "Milo" but ours was SWB and blue) with a roof rack. Everything we needed was in that car. We tented it. We had camp ovens. We had a gas stove & esky. We travelled around Australia like that. Fancy lighting was the old "break down" light that came with the shortie otherwise it was a good torch and firelight.
Now that I'm (much) older, I've been able to purchase a camper trailer, fridges, toilets, ensuites, etc. I still have my tent and all my primitive camping gear and I'm happy to keep it to use if we ever sell the camper. In fact, we used my esky in place of a fridge for the first year or more, simply because we that's all we had. Although the BF got a fridge for the ice in his rum! Bit la de da to be honest, but I can see the value in such an item. I purchased a HWS, but we still mostly heat water with a kettle on the fire and use a cup and bucket to shower except in winter where the shower itself is more comfortable (not necessarily the water heating system).
I have to say the bed in the camper is alot more comfortable than a blow up mattress or foam on the ground. The kitchen is way more fancy than I was used to. But to us ... it's really just a bed & kitchen on wheels. It's given us the freedom to more self sufficient in a modern way ... not that the old way didn't of course ... but we are getting older now.
In the early days, we did caravan parks with the olds (when we were under 10), then bush camping (my preference), and now with the camper, we do nothing but bush camping (still my preference) where possible.
I can honestly say I haven't been to a "caravan park" since I was about 10. Even in some fancy modern camp grounds, we get away from everyone else and stay self suficient. We've only plugged in the camper once at a scout camp to run a heater and haven't done it since.
Kit_e
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Like a lot of the posters, the earliest memory I have of camping was at good old Scarness Caravan Park in Hervey Bay sometime round 1966/7.
We had a heavy canvas lean to tent with no floor, army surplus stretchers, dad cooked on some kind of BBQ thing that he put sand into then doused with metho or something like it to get a flame, I remember we had a lot of sausages that week!
That was the only Caravan Park we did from those days, the rest of the time we hit the NP's or bush camped on a farm or state forest with us all piled into the '64 Kombi.
Good days.....
There was a break while another lil sis was born and when she was 3 mum & dad got all flash in 1974 when they bought a continental tent, Canadian brand, (Woods? very modern for the time, had a floor and insect screens!)and companion stove, stand, gas light etc airbeds. Still used the army surplus kitchen stuff.
I inherited that gear and we used it right up till we lashed out and made our own CT last year.
That old companion stove is still perfect and now in my little sis's outfit and the tent is having a new life with a workmate and his young family. We modded the tent so it could be erected by 2 people in 30 seconds so how bout that!!.
Our own current camper is deliberately basic and lightweight, no hot water system, no s/s sinks or elec pumps, if I can get it in alloy or plastic that's how it is...the only concession to technology is LED & Fluro lighting and soon some kind of "i-pod/i-pad friendly system for music from time to time
GOD we soo love sleeping up off the ground though! and camping with other swaggers too!
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I do both.. I spend time at CP when the whole family want to go away and I alternate it by at least going bush witha swag or tent eevery 6-8 weeks with just my sons.
I love the basic of camping, but when it with all the family the whole Camper/Caravnn park thing is easier
Greg
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My nanna used to tell me wonderful stories of camping when she still lived in England.
Nanna, Pop and 2 kids all packed up onto the motorbike and sidecar!
They would manage to pack their tent, bedding, clothes and kitchen stuff into the very limited area and go enjoy themselves for the weekend.
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My first camping was with the Boy Scouts - travel to camp sitting on top of all the gear in the back of a lorry (truck), sleep in old ex-army bell tents in sleeping bags on groundsheets on the earth, cook over an open fire, dig a sh!t pit with a stout branch supported over it for a loo seat. Five of us also spent a week walking coast-to-coast across Devon (which includes Dartmoor) carrying everything we needed on our backs. That was camping in my teens.
Didn't do any more camping until about 8 years ago when I bought our first camper trailer. Pretty soon realised that I wasn't a teenager any more and swapped it in for an Odyssey complete with inner spring mattress, hot water, and an en-suite loo and shower.
Would I go back to the way it was 50 years ago? Not unless there was no option!!! Has camping changed? Yes, just like everything else in daily life. Can anyone point to ANYTHING they did 50 years ago and honestly say they still do it exactly the same way today? (Breathing doesn't count!). Would anyone happily go back to 50 years ago? I doubt it - don't forget that MySwag wasn't available then!
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as long as the people getting out there are happy how they do it, then what's it really matter? for me it's about quick set up and pack up time frames, you don't need to spend hours setting stuff up and pulling it down again when you go somewhere.
i have a camper trailer that makes life easy for both me, the wife and the kids when we go away, quick to set up and pack up and has all the wife wants to make things easy for her and comfortable for the kids (like a diesel heater and hot water system for a start). this weekend however i'll be heading away with just a swag to sleep in and a few other basics, it'll be just as good because at the end of the day i won't be at work and instead out in the bush 8) 8)
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I agree, camping has changed, but it is up to the individual how much it will change for them.
I recall camping on the beach at Harrington, NSW, in an old Army tent, with my dad, uncles and cousins. We used eskies, with an ice run every day to keep things cold. Lighting was kero lights. Toilets were a hole in the ground. We then moved up to newer style tents, camped in places like the Barrington Tops, Moree and Western NSW. It was only two years ago, we bought our CT and our first fridge. Prior to this we had borrowed a 3 way fridge for a few camps. These days, I am more aware of taking to much and try to stop putting lots of things in. I think we have moved this way, more for comfort rather then carrying a separate house when we go camping. Still love to get away.
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as long as the people getting out there are happy how they do it
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When it is just me - swag
When it is the family - ensuite site
Haven't done much of either lately :(
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as long as the people getting out there are happy how they do it, then what's it really matter? for me it's about quick set up and pack up time frames, you don't need to spend hours setting stuff up and pulling it down again when you go somewhere.
i have a camper trailer that makes life easy for both me, the wife and the kids when we go away, quick to set up and pack up and has all the wife wants to make things easy for her and comfortable for the kids (like a diesel heater and hot water system for a start). this weekend however i'll be heading away with just a swag to sleep in and a few other basics, it'll be just as good because at the end of the day i won't be at work and instead out in the bush 8) 8)
But I bet the swag is very different to the ones around 50 years ago!
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We try to go at least very 2 or 3 weeks.
Not happening lately while I build a pool, but usually we do.
We did get away for the fathers day weekend, and it brought tears to my eyes...........
We took the glamper (Jayco hawk) with its led lights, plasma, ipad, oven, shower, car had the gps, fridge, plasmas in the headrests, nintendos, sat phone etc etc............
BUT---------------What did we do?
Built a fire, built a tree swing, went birdwatching (god knows why, but miss 5 likes it) played with sticks, spent hours climbing over a tree that had fallen down, went spotting fish in the river, walked, played, laughed and cook roast lamb.
yes we could have done it in a tent, or swag, but yes we were comfortable and warm in our glamper and that makes us want to do it again..........
See you out there next weekend!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Brian
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I'm missing not getting out there... with the weather so bad in Vic at the moment. So I said stuff it, I've booked a couple of days in a cabin on a farm at bright with the family and I know we will have a ball ( it still has an open fire) ;D
Next weekend swagging it up at Undeera.
As long as I'm not at home!!!!!
Greg
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Nice one Mark. I love nothing more than stinking of smoke, looking like a grot and wearing the same pair of jocks for a week ;D
As long as we're sitting around a fire, amongst the wildlife, can cook good food, see the stars, have a warm bed (be it in the camper, swags or tent) and the kids can go nuts bushwalking or climbing trees and rocks etc, then we're having a ball.
Personally, I prefer bush camping away from the masses and have been fortunate enough to have been out the last 2 weekends in the camper, but either way, as long as people are enjoying it, then that's the best part.
We've been lucky enough to have camped all our lives and took some friends away last year on a 4 week trip, 90% of which was bush camping. They'd only camped one night as a family previously, camping in a tent - wet - and hated it !
We got them to hire a camper for the trip and since then, they can't get enough and are now looking for their own CT.
Yep - CT's and the like certainly add a little more ease and comfort to the whole experience, but if that's what it takes to get people out and about who would otherwise not consider it, then all the better.
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G'day Mark,
Camping is a different experience for different reasons to different people, as Rumpig mentioned, as long as people are out there, don't ask me to defined 'Out there', because that has a different meaning for different people as well ;D
I guess it means sitting around a table in the afternoon at a caravan park enjoying the company of strangers, friends or sitting under the stars somewhere around a fire in the middle of nowhere, what does it really matter?
We are trying to cut out all crap from our set up, KISS, It's getting easier as the kids are getting older, ;D I think ???
:cheers:
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Still fairley basic for us, a couple of tents with swags and a basic kitchen setup even down to the plastic tub on the table for washing up in. We do now have a 47L fridge and some led lights which is the most mod con bit of gear we own, the toilet is a thunder box type setup which is placed in a senic location and most times doesn't even have a shelter around it.
We have a property with hilly country on it so camping is literaly a 10-15 min drive to get to.
Trevor
some photos added.
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Sorry the photos didn't work.................ok now they have
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timetogo,
Wonderfully beautiful place you have there.
Bunyip
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I'm prepared to camp the old fashion way. I've seen a cape guide take his electric frypan when he goes camping, (not mentioning any names).
fire to cook on .
beer in the esky.
sleep in the car or on the ground.
Bert
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We have just reverted back to the old way of just a tent though still use 12v fridge and 12v LED lighting instead of gas lantern or a Tilley lantern of years past. It is one of the best things we have done. Quicker set up and pack up, no trailer to tow which can be a pain and the real feel of camping. It's fantastic.....
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camping used to mean a cheap holiday, now there are so many must haves (well we think there must haves until we put them on Ebay 2 years later) that it can become more expensive then a road trip with motels.
The one thing I don't understand it the amount of money people will spend to camp at caravan parks a guy at work spent close to $250 for 3 nights for his family to camp down near kiama over easter. He said it was great that they had a pool and a playground.
We spent less than a $100 for 5 nights at Wyangala Dam. We had a much bigger pool(The Dam) and a playground. Plus we had lots of tracks for Bunyip to take all the kids on bumby drive.
LB
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I still have my tent, but have the CT and also a vintage caravan, but prefer the CT and love getting go to the remote places where we see very few people but get back to nature.
My back doesnt like tenting anymore, hence the preference for the CT. We only use the caravan for visitors or to go to caravan parks for short times (hate detest crowds) hence it gets little use. (hhhmmmm thought here, sell it extra funds for trip :cup: )
We are taking the CT around oz next year, so I suppose we will get to see how much we dont need :) longest trip in it has been 8 weeks, so 52 weeks will be interesting as cant just pop back home to get what we need or forgot.
I remember when we were young going camping in the old a frame 2 man tents with blow up air mattresses and waking up in the morning to being serenaded by cows and putting my foot right in a hot one when exiting the tent. :) ahhhh the good old days. 4 kids and 2 adults in 2 tents. One happy family. Cooking by the camp fire, no fancy stoves or cooking equipment, basic food, basic equipment, but gosh I love my CT and all that it contains especially the loo :)
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This is an interestin g question . Recently at our Mitchels Crossing catch up we watched as the little swaggers interacted when they 1st met . t was showing each other their games machines & then a big yarn about what was cool & what was not . Sadely the power ran out in the games >:D " What do we do now ??? ". Then as 1 they discovered MUD & WATER , what more could you ask for . Kids using there minds to amuse themselves . Now its " Dad when can we go again ??? ???/
Yes camping has changed & the teckno stuff is totaly up to yourself as to how much or little you want . Really its Bums on seats by campfires either alone or in a huge group , As long as you enjoy :cheers:
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I don't think my camping, in essence, has changed that much..except that even though I have more 'high tech' stuff, I actually have more time camping.
Most of the stuff we have, allows us to setup and pack away MUCH quicker than what it used to when I was younger. (camper unfolds instead of pitching a tent, fridge esky is there rather than having to travel and buy ice or make ice blocks, and have a bigger esky to fit it etc etc). It is lighter, more robust, more practical and allows us to enjoy where we are a lot more. And I can get out more often as it is pre-packed and almost ready to go. When I was young, our family only went on school holidays/long weekends and spent ages getting our stuff together to go away.
So I think it has changed..but in a lot of ways, to make it easier and more enjoyable.
MarkVS
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(hate detest crowds)
I'm with you Patt31. Hows the serenity :D
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Oh well, at the end of the day we are all "Living the dream".....and we all dream differently, but the basics are all the same :cheers:
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I heard today about a caravan park on the NSW South Coast that is developing another 10 acres for " tent camping only " Each site will have it`s own generator ??? The owner saw the idea in the good ole U.S.A and thinks it will be a hit here ! Certainly not my idea of getting away from it all.
:cheers: Robyn.
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Our camping has definitely changed, I have to buy a bigger inverter to run the Espresso machine.
Regards
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We used to camp in the car as kids when we lived on the West Coast. Mum would sleep across the front seat, big sister across the back seat, youngest 2 (including me) would sleep in the back on the Holden station wagon and Dad would sleep under the car with the dog.
But the fishing was great!
Now we have a Jayco Eagle but still love to get away.
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Our camping has changed from before we had kids to 20 odd years later our kids are almost at the age where they wont come any more so a lot has changed between those two dates.
We started out with a cheap 2 man tent that was funny to watch us put up when we first started going out together, to the bigger 'family' tents when the kids come along to a camper trailer today.
I guess as time goes on we could afford more or better gear, we learnt what was good or bad or suited our needs better making plenty of mistakes along the way.
The basic idea behind camping has always been the same for us though. We are not wealthy people by any means and never will be so for us 'camping' is a way of having a break/holiday that we can afford.
Sure we have done the hotel room thing in the past in surfers paradise for instance and yes everyone thoroughly enjoyed it but when you look at the money spent to spend a week or so doing such a holiday it is an extravagance for us.
So over the years being able to pack up the camping gear and head to the bush/beach or where ever for a few days is a very cheap get away in comparison.
We have this burning desire to spend as much quality time with our kids as possible before they are too old to want to come with us. 1 and 1/2 of them are already too old the other 2 and 1/2 are getting to see more of Australia than either my wife or I ever did as kids.
So No in the sense of what it is all about has not changed but for the sake of this topic yes it has changed a lot over the years.......we are not getting younger either ;)
The humble beginnings before kids......late 80's I think
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dnatgwa6sAA/TuVRbfr8gFI/AAAAAAAAAnk/egMHg8kbuy0/s1600/1989d.jpg)
After the kids come along....we didn't have much but it was all we could afford
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q86/DannyG13_photos/mathinafamilynight/tents.jpg)
Family holidays with tents still but more mod cons etc.......
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g9g8QhVjJ7M/TzntdX36fWI/AAAAAAAABnw/8vPwWh22kPk/s1600/IMG_5817+(Custom).JPG)
And of course today with almost every luxury you could want while 'camping' :)
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Oh well, at the end of the day we are all "Living the dream".....and we all dream differently, but the basics are all the same :cheers:
"Getting the Hell Outta Dodge" is the only basic I can see here. ;D
Kit_e
Coffee Machines / Generators / Comfy Beds / Shower Systems / Televisons / Pay TV / Audio System ... Next they'll be wanting to bring the shopping centre ;D
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The humble beginnings before kids......late 80's I think
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dnatgwa6sAA/TuVRbfr8gFI/AAAAAAAAAnk/egMHg8kbuy0/s1600/1989d.jpg)
Is that a HJ V8?
Niiiiice...............
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Is that a HJ V8?
Niiiiice...............
I was eyeing off that as well , back when they made cars with character
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Go the Kingswood wagon :)
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Very jealous of those that went camping as kids.....my old man didn't believe in holidays at all, I was 18 before I even went on one !!!!! Not one family holiday ever, think my dad may have regretted it a bit when he was 93 and in a nursing home with lots of time to think, so I needed to learn how to do it ........
I guess that was the case for a lot of farm kids.......but as our own kids got older we had a few camping trips and I was hooked !!
Now have a CT..........and love it.
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The things I don't miss from the camping of old - was putting a new mantle in the gas light everytime we wanted to use it (didn't take much of a knock to kill them) and the other thing was buying ice for the esky.
I love my generator and fridge and plug in lights.
Peanut
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Peanut2,
I have one more trip with the gas lanterns and mantles, thinking of still taking one light with us when we get the CT so that we can move it near the fire. One of the people we camp with loves to knit by the fireplace.
I don't miss putitng up the dining fly tarp with all the poles and ropes. We got a 6x3 gazebo a few years back and it makes life so much easier. When it rains as we setup we get the gazebo up and slide the trailer under it to keep everything dry.
Bunyip
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Camping will always change - it is the one constant.
Like most things, technology and innovation evolves, regulation comes and hopefully goes and the experiences you had in years gone by will always be different than what is experienced today.
It's how we are as human beings.
Twenty years ago who would have conceived the GPS, smart phones and laptops we have now and here we are in 2012 and we can't be without them.
Don't be disappointed in change, just be grateful for what you have experienced in the past.....
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Is that a HJ V8?
Niiiiice...............
Yeh mate it wasnt mine but an old classic none the less. I am a Ford man but over the years had a few Holdens I loved. My HJ 253 was unkillable ;)
And at the risk of hijacking the thread here is a 308 Stato I used to own in my mullet days LOL (we used to sleep in it....to keep it on topic!)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZbnGQak9wSc/TuVTuM6PpLI/AAAAAAAAAsA/NsEzstLlKtw/s1600/1992a.jpg)
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I think its interesting people complain about their cars/trailer weighing so much...
... then you see them for hours non stop pulling out things of their car/trailers... even Shit like rear projection TV's, microwaves, DVD players, dryers, you name it...
no idea why you've run out of room in your B double.
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I've been camping for over 40yrs and never had a generator, maybe I'm doing it wrong :angel:
I think I have only used one once, that was on the MySwag Gulf trip, Yogi helped me out, (thanks mate your a champ)annoyed my so much I didn't use it again, just worked around the problem.
Baz.
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Twenty years ago who would have conceived the GPS, smart phones and laptops we have now and here we are in 2012 and we can't be without them.
must be something wrong with me, I don't own any of these.........yet
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must be something wrong with me, I don't own any of these.........yet
Mate!!!!!!!!!! You don't know what you're missing out on.
They're fan-bloody-tastic.
Pop one in each corner and they hold your map down on the bonnet really well in the wind.!!!!!!!!!
Cheers
Brian
(sadly pathetic glamper owner who likes to think he's rough and tough, but enjoys a diesel heater and cappucino. :-[)
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Apart from this week, it's 14 years since we camped.........
14 Years ago,
G60 Nissan Patrol, the old 3 speed jobbie with no synchro on low gear and you get out to click the hubs in.
5 man tent used for 2 people.
Sleeping bags.
Solar shower.
Gas 2 burner cooker.
2 gas lights
Esky with plenty of ice.
Toilets were a shovel, paper and a good sense of balance.
Now,
2004 Jeep, V6 Auto, air, power steering, power windows etc, etc,
2005 Camper Trailer.
Queen size bed.
50 litre fridge
Esky for beer. (yes, the same esky from 14 years ago)
Gas hot water shower.
Porta potti
Their own duel shower tent.
TV with DVD player. ( we took the Monty Python series and THE CUP to watch)
3 separate 12 volt lights.
Battery power from trailer.
Eu 20i Honda generator.
Oh dear, where do i stop....... :D
Nah, it all seems the same to me.
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Camping has changed, but so has the rest of our lives. We talk about taking more camping, but then we have so much more at home than before too.
I enjoy camping as much now as I did as a kid, if not as often.
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I find I work so hard and so many hours I don't have time to camp old school style
If I had to pack the gear from my shed into my truck..... I just wouldn't go
A ct gives me the excuse to have it all there, hook up, leave, everything is there
We have all the mod cons because we go camping to see people, places and spend time with my boys, not to prove how rough I can camp. I like a nice bed. I love a fridge with cold dry food in it. I love knowing that I have everything I need.
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It depends on what I am doing, this weekend we are doing a boys tinny trip up the Murray, so it's a swag an esky, flat plate and a camp oven. Anything more than that and you don't fit 2 guys into the boat. ;D
We bought ourselves a jayco swan after having tents and then a soft top offroad camper, we were looking for the comfort level 8), after 2 years we have just sold it, I found that I was not pulling it out to use it, we didn't cook in it cause we enjoy cooking over the fire, so in the end we only slept in it. So we sold it 4 weeks ago, we decided to wait and save up for a tvan, but, ??? , I showed the boss a picture of the cub supamatic, the rest is history, looking forward to it turning up in early oct. still going camping on the long weekend, back to the tents and swag :laugh:
Jim