Having entered off of the Princes Highway and parking on the grass near that entrance there was a little bit of a walk to one of the gates and entrances. I think in the past I came in from Springvale Road. I paid for a ticket at the gate there is no difference in price between paying online or at the gate, and if you pay at the gate it’s one less site with your contact info.
I'm not really into caravanning, I'm more a curious observer from the borders of this oeuvre of adventuring. So my observances are from this perspective.
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There were several caravans with two single beds in them, with cupboard in between, which is an interesting solution to the problem of bedding in a caravan.
I'm not really a fan of the pop-top caravan, I feel that if I were out adventuring I wand a protective space from the outside, especially when sleeping.
It was nice to caravans with double beds, and a nice kitchen area plus bathroom, and several had a toilet and basin area and also a separate shower area. Others combined all this together, but I think day-to-day living that little bit of separation would really help with living within the caravan.
There's two main options on display the caravan and the motorhome. The latter built into a van or onto the back of a small truck. Both are a compromise and I'm not sure which one I would go for, were I in the market for one.
I can see the perspective for both, the van means you can go basically anywhere a van would go, and they're a lot more subtle than a caravan and a tow vehicle. But they're a lot more compromised in terms of space, power of the engine and things like that.
If I was going to buy one for myself, I think I would still go for a caravan, albeit a small one, much as in 2019 when I saw one then, I think I still like the Lumberjack Sheoak (Series II). The one I saw back then was the first generation one, but this is more updated one. It's also gone up in price by by 10 grand on that one to $31,990.
It's got a sleeping area and then a separate kitchen area.
It's still not totally perfect, at least for how I would use it, it still uses gas. I'd have an induction hotplate in there running off a battery system. I watched a few YouTube videos comparing gas vs induction as a camping option a while ago, and it made a very compelling argument for induction. If you've got solar panels on your camper, and a power station storage system or the like then it's basically free cooking fuel when the sun's out.
Ultimate Campers was the only one that I saw that had what appeared to be an induction system for cooking.
The Stockman Rover has a similar idea to the Lumberjack Sheoak, being a pod-style camper trailer. Their prices however are higher at a hair over $50,000.
I bought a bag of jam doughnuts, which were kinda disappointing. They were hot, freshly cooked but just lacking kinda.
