Quote from: Hairs on January 11, 2026, 09:57:02 AMthat it was common & also having others camped on your booked site, leaving them nowhere camp.

As I have already stated , I am an arsehole . I have in the past came to a site booked by myself and found someone else setting up or has set up up in my booked site . I have sat back out of the way and allowed these people to complete their set up and on the odd occassion even watched them grab a beer and relax befor walking up to them with my permit in hand and requesting them to pack up their camp and vacate my booked and paid for site . Have as yet, never recieved death threats , but if looks were daggers I have been mentally stabbed to death on several occations. Normally they have reluctantly packed up and moved on , whith the threat of going to the rangers with photos has always moved on those who have chosen to argue

Thankfully, it hasn't to us yet, but it will one day.
I've been told by friends who travelled to The Cape, that it was common & also having others camped on your booked site, leaving them nowhere camp.

You don't use magic to disappear, ya use a 4x4 & Swag.

We have suffered with this as well while up on the Cape a few years ago at several waterholes/rivers. Fortunately it didn't worry us too much as there were alternative sites that we booked instead, unlike Duggie who doesn't get that option. It is still disappointing to see campsites not being utilised properly though.

We have also suffered from the reverse as well. We have a particular site in the Flinders Ranges that we like to book, and twice out of our last three visits, we have arrived to find someone camped on 'our' spot. The first time the other couple were just backing onto the site when we arrived, and after a polite conversation they reluctantly moved to another spot and then refused to talk to us for the rest of their stay. The second time another couple had obviously had been set up for days with a big outfit and were leaving the next morning, so we camped on the next site and moved onto 'our' site when they left. The only issue was that my better half worried for the rest of the day that someone else was going to show up to claim the site we had squatted on. All good though.

Both are annoying, but I would sooner have the first than the second.

Hey Duggie, I am prepared to offer forgiveness for your arseholedness if you provide the GPS co ordinates of your fishing spot.I am in Vic so unlikely to push you off it (very often) oh and I won't tell anyone.

Quote from: duggie on January 10, 2026, 08:35:51 AMYes I am an arsehole

Hehehe, at least you admitted it..

I opened the shed door, which hadn't been opened in about 2 weeks, and the heat nearly knocked me on me bum. Thought I'd restock the fridge, as Coke was running low. I dropped a can from about 500mm high, it hit the bottom edge of the fridge cabinet, and exploded. Warm Coke shot about 2M across the floor, and into the bottom of the fridge. Never had a can do that before, but it was about 50deg in the shed at the time.

An old thread, but hey.
I finally replaced the lower tailgate, it had a crack vertical just left of the number plate for the past 5 years, since our trip to Cameron's Cnr.
A good posted up on Market place that he was getting rid of all his 80 parts, he's a mad 80's owner.
I noticed he had a couple of lower tailgate.
Swung by to say G'day and grab one.
I noticed that his 80 wasn't in the back yard with all the other 4wd's that were there, a couple of LN 107's, which are his son's, and a cruiser wagon, 4.5 V8.
Where's ya 80 mate.
'A couple weeks ago, it got stolen out of the back yard, while the misses and I were in Brissy have tests, she's not really good'

Anyway, he's getting rid of a ton of stuff, so I grab a lower tailgate.
This morning I fitted it, Swapped the reverse camera, the nylon Chopping board(food grade) card and buggar me it is a shade of Champagne Gold lighter
Just have to get the Full time 4wd badge.

You don't use magic to disappear, ya use a 4x4 & Swag.

G'day, I am in a sense guilty of "ghost booking " . I have a favourite fishing water hole that I like to go to at least once a year . We as a family have been going there for over 40 years , 5 generations of my family in that time have camped/fished this waterhole . There is 3 camping sites on this waterhole and is very hard to actually book a site , mainly due to people booking sites but not actually turning up . I have in the past had to book and camp at other waterholes , but have driven in my favourite site to do some daytime bank fishing only to find that although all the 3 sites have been booked out for weeks/months there is no evidence that anyone has camped there for some time.
I now when I can , go into the Qld Nat Parks booking site and go through the bookings at this water hole looking for a time where I can book all three sites for a period of time months ahead. Yes I am an arsehole but I always have others who come along for the trip and that makes up the numbers , we may all setup on one site but there is 2, 3 or more lots of people attending this trip , I add those extra people onto the camping permit , pay the extra dollars required per person/per night , so there may be no camp on the other 2 sites , but there is names attached to the permit for that site and dollars have been paid. Cheers and beers duggie

 It's catastrophic.

Some of the footage I've seen today,  it horrible.

You don't use magic to disappear, ya use a 4x4 & Swag.

I would like to hope that people hvae already left



Thousands of campers across Victoria are being ordered to pack up and leave ahead of catastrophic fire conditions on Friday.

Holiday parks and riverfront campgrounds - including sites along the Goulburn and Murray rivers, Lake Eildon, the Grampians and the Great Ocean Road - are among those affected.

Forest Fire Management Victoria has warned that people must be out before 7am, stressing that it will not be survivable to shelter if a fire hits.

Large areas of public land will close, with rangers patrolling today and tomorrow to direct people to leave.

"It is not survivable if you are caught in a bushfire under those conditions," said Forest Fire Management Victoria chief Chris Hardman.

"You will be killed before the fire gets to you under these conditions." See less