Well, this is sort of in the interest of the thread.......last day camp before heading back home after a very enjoyable easter in the W.A. goldfields, we decided to pull up in a wheatbelt town Kilannie north east of Perth. On the GPS was a very small camp area 10kms out of town so we decided this was worth a look. It was a beautiful camp spot with a huge rock feature in a valley with steel plate BBQs scattered around the shaded area.....Ok, what happened next is beyond me and ive kind of lost my faith in mankind to a degree.
After setting up and relaxing by a fresh lit fire with a coldie in hand, an Avis bus and 3 vehicles enter the camp area and inside were scores of young folk in suits and dresses. A local farmer was having a chat with us along with his heavily pregnant daughter and he assured me that these people that had just arrived were Bretheren. Well, these neatly attired young folk disembarked their vehicles and changed into jeans and t shirts and started to pull down trees around the camp sites to create a huge bonfire. I approached 3 of the young offenders and told them not to break the trees down and was told to shut up and that I was a D_ckhead. Seeing red, I approached what looked like a couple of priests of sort and told them that we were here for some peace and quiet and that the young ones had abused me, He said he would sort it out.
They all formed up and sang Hymns for about half an hour, which was quite good.
At the night went on, the fire got bigger, the young people got drunker, bottles were being smashed and profanities amongst themselves were even out of my league.
Come 1100.pm, the Elders called time and within 10 mins, they were gone, Fire ablaze with flames about 4-5 foot high left in the wake of their dust.
In the Morning we could not believe our eyes, there was empty bottles of Rum and Bourbon and empty cans of cool drink and beer scattered everywhere and up on the rocks were about a dozen smashed bottles of Corona...........at their site was a sign.......PLEASE TAKE YOUR RUBBISH WITH YOU.
What is this world coming to 
LOL, Yep, been there, done that. At Nanga Dwellingup, been camped there for four days, nice and peaceful, come Friday evening, a ute turns up with massive generator on back, pulls up about 100 yards from our camp site, sets up genie and FOUR large light poles in rectangle, tests lights and cars disappear. Just before dark, heaps of cars start to turn up park anywhere, tuff titties on the campers who were already there. Turns out this is a religious group from Mandurah, had decided to have a fun night conducting some sort of mapping exercise whatever. Their numbers increased to about 200 people.
I KID YOU NOT ! The noise they made had to be heard to be believed, and consideration for fellow campers ? DUH, what's that ? So called Christian consideration for other folks was nowhere to be seen.
Eventually I approached someone who appeared to be an authoritive figure and asked them for their booking slip from D.E.C. they replied they hadn't got one. So I asked them then, who they spoke to at D.E.C. to gain permission to conduct their event at Nanga, was told no one. I then told him he needed permission to conduct such an event and I'd be reporting him/his group and their car registrations to DEC in the morning.
After that, things quietened down some, and around midnight they packed up all their gear including the gen sets and poles, and actually did an EMU BOB clean up of the area.
THAT really surprised us, maybe they were concerned DEC would be getting back to them.
BUT, the point is, these groups seem to be under the impression that just because they are a big group, and/or allegedly Christian, they can do whatever they please and stuff everyone else.
It's up to US as campers, to stand out ground and demand they respect us and our privacy, we'll be only too pleased to reciprocate.
