Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: Camp site on the murray a couple of hrs from Adelaide??
Does anyone have any ideas of where i can take my young boys camping on the Murray a few hrs from Adelaide. i just want a decent river spot we can wet a line and is out of the way of everyone?
I will be camping overnight for fri/ sat night. I am not so fussed about how good the fishing is, i was just after a place to camp that was a natural setting so the kids could camp "in the bush". Anywhere on the murray can fish ok at times, it just depends on if they are firing at that place at that time
G'day lifesaver, why not take them up to Loxton? it's a great little town with good shopping. Down at the Loxton caravan park there is an area where you can set up camp right on the river and still make use of the caravan parks facilities if needed, Mary and Ross Priestley are the park owners and are very fine people. It is one of the places we regularly take the camper trailer to, tell them Michael Brennan recommended you stay there and i am sure they will look after you. Where you camp has produced quite a lot of carp over the times we have stayed there. It is right on a bend with high cliff tops, it's hard to believe you are actually still in the park where the sites are located.
Don't go to Loxton though, coz you're liable to run into that rowdy Brennan clan that's always there!
Within 2 hours from Adelaide you'd have anywhere from the mouth of the murray down at goolwa through to about Waikerie or Berri.
Between these two points there's endless areas of river where ya can happily set up camp!
A few favourites of mine are: Mannum, Bow hill, Swan Reach, Blanchetown, Morgan and Hogwash.
Just follow any path just outta the towns, and you'll generally find a few good camping areas on the river's edge.
Probably the pick of the bunch for me would be the morgan conservation park. Cross the river on the ferry at Morgan and turn first left. Follow this road along for a k or so and you see another left turn into the conservation park, and there's heaps of campsites between the willows and gums all along that stretch of the river, and if you need supplies or a cold beverage, town is just a 5 minute drive! _________________ Ranger FANGSA
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes!
I too used to camp down by the pump station at Bryants Creek, where the hulk of the old barge is slowly rusting away (makes a good jetty to fish from) but I've been told you can't get down there anymore.
To tell the truth, I don't think it matters where ya stop. Young boys are on an endless quest for adventure, and anywhere is gonna supply all the adventure their young minds need. Just kit em up with hot food, a dry tent, a warm fire and a river evening, and they're bound to have a ball!
Tell em the Possums are a sure sign that there's drop bears around, and if they walk backwards it confuses the drop bears, so the nasty things dont sneak up behind ya!
If you're from Adelaide, ya wanna tag along on one of the trips that clans Ranger/Micksa/Bobsa organise from time to time!
Our next is to Goolwa later in the year hunting cockles! The kids love it, and the adults get to roll around in the surf looking like clowns, before relaxing in the evenings with a red, a crownie, and a cheese platter! _________________ Ranger FANGSA
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: Re:
Ranger wrote:
Other side mate!
I too used to camp down by the pump station at Bryants Creek, where the hulk of the old barge is slowly rusting away (makes a good jetty to fish from) but I've been told you can't get down there anymore.
To tell the truth, I don't think it matters where ya stop. Young boys are on an endless quest for adventure, and anywhere is gonna supply all the adventure their young minds need. Just kit em up with hot food, a dry tent, a warm fire and a river evening, and they're bound to have a ball!
Tell em the Possums are a sure sign that there's drop bears around, and if they walk backwards it confuses the drop bears, so the nasty things dont sneak up behind ya!
If you're from Adelaide, ya wanna tag along on one of the trips that clans Ranger/Micksa/Bobsa organise from time to time!
Our next is to Goolwa later in the year hunting cockles! The kids love it, and the adults get to roll around in the surf looking like clowns, before relaxing in the evenings with a red, a crownie, and a cheese platter!
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