Just got back from my first stay at a busy free camping site, normally Id be at some isolated one or in a caravan park in busy areas. It was a very nice site with heaps of space, a small toilet block and two, wood fired undercover BBQs with Wooden Picnic tables next to them as well as a little river (more a creak) running through it. I just have a couple of questions on etiquette in such a place. Please keep the conversation polite. First we arrived at this site just before midday as we werent sure how big or how busy it was. When we got there the BBQs didnt have anyone camped on their side of the road and the council (I assume) had a supply of wood next to one (It appeared to be an old picnic table). We set up our tent and headed off. When we cam back someone had camped next to the BBQ area with the wood, placed their car on the opposite side and had their cooking gear all over the table in front of the BBQ. On our second night there our 8 year old son went over to get a marshmallow stick and was treated rather sarcastically. So for this situation my question is: Are such facilities best in best dressed or should the area around what I would have though to be communal facilities be left free of camp sites? The other situation involves the access to the river. There was a steep drop of about a meter to get down to the river with limited access points. The one in our section of the camp ground had two camp chairs placed either side of it about 2 meters from it. I told my kids to go along the top of the drop and not between the two chairs as that would be like walking through someones lounge room but if people set up camp so close to an obvious access point can they really expect their camp site to be treated as private?
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:59:10 +0000
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