What is the craziest thing you have seen while travelling/camping?

[Paul (SA)]

Was it someone taking a new 4WD through Gunshot?

A hitchhiker on the Anne Beadell?

I am about to set out travelling and camper trailer-ing with the family and want to know what I am in for!!! 

Paul (SA)

[ralphedward]

Speewa!

[Hairs]

I am about to set out travelling and camper trailer-ing with the family and want to know what I am in for!!! 

"what I am in for"  A great time.  
You'll see plenty, some will take your breath away & others sights will leave you gob smacked & scratching your head.
The strangest thing was a young couple in their late twenties, Driving BMW AWD, towing a Eagle outback, all shiny and new, He was dressed with the long white Cargo shorts, cap on sideways and muscle shirt, she was dressed in a body hugging see through dress and all the bling she could carry standing there in high heels watching her husband fight with the camper as she sucked on a smoke and a can of Bourbon, telling him how it all went together, talking on her mobile phone, telling her friend what a wonderful thing this camping thing is.
While camped next to them, there was an elderly couple(maybe in their eighties) sitting in front of their dome tent on a rug, munching on their dinner, with their VB Commodore Vacationer parked next to them. The young couple begin to fight over whether or not they were going to the Bowling club or Golf club for dinner.
I'll never forget that.

Hope ya have a ball.
Safe travels.

[Heiny]

Talking to a guy at a rest stop on the highway on the up to Coober Pedy last year, he had done the same trip we were just starting (Oodndatta Track and Flinders Ranges) but in reverse to how we were doing it.
Anyway he was all grumbles and whining and told us to turn around and head home because this trip your doing is boring, the scenery is all the same and he would never be venturing into the outback ever again.
Totally amazed by this blokes lack of respect and appreciation for our country and its stunning scenery we laughed and headed off for the best holiday we have ever had as a family

I do feel sorry for that bloke who will never appreciate the outback

[HEM19X]

Once saw a bloke spend almost 8 hours setting up a caravan at Broomes Head...he had everything including a separate cooking area with a 4 burner BBq, air con unit, fans, 2 deep freezers to hold ice, flooring for the annex, a tarp that streached over everything [lifed off the van & annex with 4" poly pipe], all held down with over 100 ropes & pegs! The pegs were 18' long & made of 7/8" steel - nothing was going anywhere!

Hem

[Hairs]

setting up a caravan at Broomes Head...

Speaking of Brooms head.
This was last New Years at Brooms head, when it was blowing like you wouldn't believe.

This van was right on the beach front, next to The Snack Shack.

[tjwrexy]

We were quietly minding our own business watching the river go by when 2 caravans turned up (we were in a van park).  One of the blokes apparently  knew how to reverse a caravan while the other 3 in his party were having a good old chinwag), so he starts and as I was about to yell STOP, yup you guessed it BANG he backed into a tree  .

Result, small dent in his friend's Caravan and a bigger dent in his pride ... oops.

[Boesman]

Well, mine is not that crazy nor stupid.......... but strange none the less.

We got to our camping spot on a Friday afternoon and saw this small caravan. At first we thought it was empty, but then saw the curtains move ever so slightly.

From what the other campers tell us, it was a young newly wed couple who pitched up the day before and almost NEVER came outside. Makes you think why they had to steady the caravan in such a way.

[GU Rich]

Whilst I was camping in north east Tassie we went out 4WDriving, When we came back the side of my camper (bed base) had lifted up and the awning blown down and almost every peg peg uprooted.... I have never latched the bed base down before during camping but I'd wished I had that day. Even the under bed access panels and matress were blown off into the tent area.
We didn't suffer any damage to the tent or trailer thank goodness.
Yes it was very WINDY!

[Jon]

http://www.4wdaction.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=45476

[GeoffA]

Speewa!

Very good..........

[blackmav]

This year on the Tele track we saw a scooter that had just come through Gunshot heading south....

[SteveandViv]

Speewa!

What , you really saw him 

[Stozz]

maybe not crazy - but certainly impressive mural...

[jnik]

How about a Japanese tourist walking along the Stuart Highway with a huge pack on his back, pushing one of those kids scooters (the ones with the ~4" wheels) with a  broken front wheel?

I pulled over to offer him a lift, which he refused. He took some water from me and told me that his original plan was to travel around Aus on a motorcycle. His bike broke down and he didn't have enough money to fix it so he sold it off and purchased said kids scooter and kept going. That was near Cairns.

He'd ridden that bloody tiny scooter, with that big pack on his back, from Cairns to Alice, out to the rock and was heading to Darwin when the wheel broke (wonder why?).

Even after losing his bike and then his scooter he still kept on going, on foot!

[jnik]

Dunedin, NZ:


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[Snow]

Plankers. 

[HerGU]

Not weird, just stupid maybe,

Up at 5 Rocks we were camping on the beach and had packed up and were heading home along a one way sand track and came accross a japanese (we think) couple in a hired XTrail trying to get the beach (which is a fair drive accross deep sand tracks and up a dune named "big sandy" for a reason), anyways they were stuck not even 1km from the start of the sand bit with the wheels spinning due to "traction control" with no one in the car and about 5 cars backed up behind them. It was a funny sight - Xtrail thowing up sand rooster tails from the from wheels alternating trying to get traction with no one in the car.

No one behind them thought to help them off the track, so when we came down the hill, we couldnt get around so the boys asked the driver if he knew how to 4wd, and the driving who couldnt speak english just got out and motioned for my other half to get in the driver seat to get the car out. A couple of tugs on the snatch and they were free, but due to the sand rutts my other half ended up asking the backed up cars to get off the track so they could reverse the X Trail all the way back to where they could turn it around. We had one of our cars in front and the other behind with the xtrail reversing the whole way in between.

On another trip to the same beach a year later our best mate picked up a hitch hiker trying to get to the beach (this lady was smart and knew her car couldn't make it) but she didnt realise it was around 10km at least up lots of huge dunes just to get the beach ( let alone the good bit).

[jnik]

I am about to set out travelling and camper trailer-ing with the family and want to know what I am in for!!! 

One thing you probably won't see (from when we were living in Montreal - IIRC this was the night before it took me 45 minutes to dig the car out so that I could get to work):


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[Flemo]

Once saw a bloke spend almost 8 hours setting up a caravan at Broomes Head...he had everything including a separate cooking area with a 4 burner BBq, air con unit, fans, 2 deep freezers to hold ice, flooring for the annex, a tarp that streached over everything [lifed off the van & annex with 4" poly pipe], all held down with over 100 ropes & pegs! The pegs were 18' long & made of 7/8" steel - nothing was going anywhere!

Hem

Probably one of you Maclean mates that have a 6 week xmas holiday there 15km from home. One of my school mates family used to do the same thing every year, his old man would set up the caravan palace for the family on the first weekend then the poor bast@rd went to work from there mon to fri for 6 weeks while the wife and kids lived in Brooms, They took fridge and freezers from home, no aircon back then but it was a solid day set up then solid day pack up. Probably the same family doing the same thing 25 years on!

[Bird]

A teepee up on the Bluff in high country. bout 30ft high... was waiting for the apache to come screaming out of the bushes...

[Mace]

A teepee up on the Bluff in high country. bout 30ft high... was waiting for the apache to come screaming out of the bushes...

FYI:

Used to be used by Bluff & Beyond for their Ski Touring Commercial Tours during Winter (Late 80's and 90's).

Was very cosy !!.

[gunna]

Seen this dunny while going for a drive the other day a good idea u never know when nature will call lol
sheeds

[Teabag]

This was at Perisher, WTF.......

[MarkGU]

saw this strange lookin' thing floating down the rapids at the Nymboida canoe centre........the kids were scared too