10 Years of Camping Evolution...

[JCOJ]

Flicking through some old photos today and it seems like we have gone through quite a bit of camping evolution over the past 10 years!!

Tent
to
TJ Wrangler with Home Built Trailer
to
JK Wrangler with Trak Shak
to
Pajero with Aussie Swag
to
LC200 with Evernew Caravan

Hopefully that will be it now for the next 10 years!!

[McGirr]

We are all just aging John 

Mark

[GeoffA]

Some money spent there JCOJ. All nice rigs, too.

I've had the same car for 15 years, and it's towed only 2 campers.

[Barrabart]

Some good set ups there mate, well done!

[achjimmy]

Great pics and post.

[griz066]

Thats an awesome list you have there, we have followed virtually the same path.
Tent
to
Built Tough Camper
to
Millard Pop Top
to
Jayco Finch Pop Top
to
Jayco Freedom Pop Top Van
to
Who knows

[Rumpig]

great thread idea this, i'll play along with a few of our old pics from the past 10 years......

FRASER ISLAND 2004 (that's our tent centre of pic)



USED TO CRUISE AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE IN THIS OLD GIRL



FRASER ISLAND CAMPING 2005 (we had the same tent there back in 2004, but no marquee or any shade structure over the tent the year previous)



2006 WE HAD A TOURING TENT (bought for our Cape York trip)



AROUND 2007 WE MOVED ON FROM THE TENT TO CARAVAN (still have and use the touring tent though, it was our accomodation in 2010 when we went across The Simpson Desert for example)



TODAYS CURRENT CAMPING SET UP

[Mallory Black]

2004
2012
(still got that tarp.. going strong)
come a long way....

[chisel]

I'll play

2004-2007 coleman tent


2007/08 big canvas tent - didn't have this for too long, too heavy/slow


2008-2012 blackwolf 300+ lite tent


2012-? lifestyle extenda


2014-? blackwolf 300 twin tent - comes with bonus grumpy 6 yr old


We still have the camper trailer but have used the tent more in recent months. 

[Aaron Schubert]

Love the progressions. I started with a 1997 hilux, and slowly decked it out for travelling. I've got my 80 series now, but still on the Oztent. More than happy with it at the moment, although a camper would be nice!

Aaron

[Darcy7]

No photos of the old Tent that lasted one trip....!  But here the evolution of the rest.....

[edz]

Family camping startd at Moreton Island with a very basic camp set up of a folded blue tarp " tent " [jnr flattened it in pic ], esky,  gas cooker  and a  Diahatsu F-20 Scat.
Then onto luxury with a 3m x 3m tent and tarp and blow up mattresses fo a number of years .. to think that we could fit the three of us + all the camping gear, jerry of fuel, water, tent, table , chairs etc etc  into the Scat for a two week trip to Fraser Island ..
Then came the luxury and space of a home built camper and the Diahatsu Rocky for the next ten years till the current camper build and Four runner set up .

[DannyG]

Mines probably over a much longer period than 10 years, my only regret is not having as many pics as we would have liked in the earlier days.

Late 80's, early 90's not sure.....before kids anyway




Quite some time later....during kids




And recently...still with kids but they are disappearing lol





We also like our 'without kids' set up too


But I am sure there will be an upgrade in the near future that will see us through quite a few years

[Bird]

tent in one saddle bag, sleepin bag in the other, grog in the Ventura bag... that's all you need.

[prodigyrf]

"tent in one saddle bag, sleepin bag in the other, grog in the Ventura bag... that's all you need."

Sighhhhhh! Philip Island is my bet. Gardner, Doohan ....and before that when a bloke's possessions could fit in the boot of an FJ Holden with his prized racing bike and trailer behind and the only handbrake on hangovers was the need to keep the fuel, tyres and parts up to it all.

What the Hell happened to sweep all that away for sobriety, soft furnishings and interior décor??

[Rumpig]

..... my only regret is not having as many pics as we would have liked in the earlier days.

we don't have any pics of when we used to go camping from more then about 10 years ago (around 2004 we started), we never used to even take a camera away with us. Many many years back, I had travelled to Cape York and across a heap of central Australia and never once had a camera with me, so have no pics at all of those great times 

[GUEY]

we don't have any pics of when we used to go camping from more then about 10 years ago (around 2004 we started), we never used to even take a camera away with us. Many many years back, I had travelled to Cape York and across a heap of central Australia and never once had a camera with me, so have no pics at all of those great times 

Yep this makes me sad also. Some great times had and bugger all captured for future reference.

[Bird]

I think most of us are in that boat... although taking photos at some of the motorcycle rallys was frownedapon my certain %ers.

[oldmate]

Yeah agreed guys, and now everyone has a camera in their pocket 24/7 almost.

[edz]

The busted fingers were a bitch when taking pics way back in the day 

[Redback]

My experience is over a longer period also, starting with bikes in the early 70s(no pics from then ) then the late 70s on my Triumph


then 80s with my 2 Laverdas, GPZ900R and 2 BMWs, also did Frazer Is on an XR250 in 91, first trip on the Laverda was 81 Forbes River Rally Wauchope(now the Long Flat Ralley


Toured Europe for six months on my first BMW.
Austria

France

Germany camped in Munich for the Octoberfest


Back home and Bathurst 87 with my trusty 3 man tent


Geehi Hut 87


Frazer 91


There were various cars in this period with mainly carting Race bikes around to meetings, after I stopped road racing we started to tour a bit, taking dirt bikes with us.

Enter the Ford Explorer and tandum box trailer and Jackaroo tent, what a pain in the arse that was to put up
Frazer 99


Then a camper was added


Disco and camper


Now


Solo camping also with a swag


Who knows what we will go for next, I do miss the bike touring quite a lot, great days, simple light and fun getting there.

Baz.

[GUEY]

Great pics!! Don't know what to say about the hairstyle in the first pic though...

[Redback]

Great pics!! Don't know what to say about the hairstyle in the first pic though...

It's what happens when you have curly hair on a windy day think Wolfmother if they were around in 1978

[oldmate]

lol, thanks for sharing mate