if you went camping in Australia where did you go

[aurora]

Camped all over Victoria and also at Mt.Gambier, SA. Many were while at Uni and playing BB all over the state, but also cheap to take a family of 10 on a vacation that way.

[Daptobloke]

Many years back a mate of mine and a few other friends went on a 4WD trip (5 vehicles) from Wollongong all the way up to the top of Australia (Cape York) then down through Northern Territory to The Alice, The Olgas, The Rock then down to Cooper Pedy then across to Wollongong. We did have tents but mainly slep under the stars in a swag. It took us just over three weeks to do the trip. Two years later we did a trip again but this time to Karumba in the Gulf Of Carpenteria then over to Northern Territory to visit the last camp site of Burke & Wills. Those two trip were a real experience of being in the outback, sleeping under the stars and knowing what it is like to drive on the dirt rather than the black stuff.

[WizBin]

Only went camping once when I was a child..and that was in a rented caravan at the Warrumbungles one August school holidays. For his work Dad spent large chunks of time (2-3 months) roughing it in the outback areas. I can see why he wasn't all that enthused about camping with the kids in his recreation time.
As an adult I did the Cradle Mt Track...6 days of backpacking and sleeping in tents.

[aussiechicka]

Every year we went to Hopetown and lived in a caravan for a few weeks, us kids got to sleep in the annex though. Best memories of my childhood!

[P.P.]

I did a LOT of camping when I was young, in the Girl Guides and also with the family going to different National Parks...must admit I have not camped since the mid 80s BUT I am considering going with a group of friends to Masthead Island off Gladstone, a deserted coral cay in Sept..

[tanya]

oh silly me... forgot the years i was in the army, and the number of times we went bush for a few weeks at a time...

[kyrial]

With 5 kids & not a lot of money to spare camping made for cheap holidays. Dad also had a tinny boat & like to fish so we camped any where near a lake. Lake Hindmarsh near Rainbow/Japarit, Lake Nagambie & Lake Albacutya. Funny, mum never came camping, it was always us & dad. Guess she didn't like dirt, flies & eating stuff out of a can cooked on a 2 burner camp stove.

Ahh yes...camping in the great Victorian outdoors. Nagambie and Lake Albacutya featured in our family camping trips. I will never forget getting rained out at Nagambie, digging trenches around the tent and then playing in all the mud with some new found friends when the rain petered out. Also camping on the banks of the Murray near Swan Hill and up in the Grampians. Lots and lots of great memories of "real" camping that I thank my parents for giving me

[philandkris]

School camps were generally at Dover, in southern Tasmania - often got chilly. Remember doing an overnight walk from the main school camp to Southern Cape, the southern most point of Tassie, and we had to move camp as the creek bed we camped in overflowed from rain up stream!

Had several cadet camps that we fun near South Arm Tasmania.

My family favorite was Mayfield Beach, near my home town of Swansea, Tasmania. Camping area was right on the beach.

[Neale]

Camped at Lake Albacutya too! Little Desert, Coorong, various places along the Murray between Albury and Renmark, along the Clyde river outside of Bateman's Bay, Gan Gan, Singleton... My uncle liked to truly rough it, so it was all dried foods, buckwheat, chickpeas etc. I had enough camping by the time I was 16. These days, roughing it means a 2 or 3 star hotel.

[tanya]

ooo remembered something else... in our home-made tent, i remember we camped in the middle of lake nhill (at nhill, victoria). of course, the lake was empty at the time...