I camp in a travel trailer, and have done 2 road trips so far with the hubby. First trip was Savannah>St. Augustine>Charleston. We were short on choice in Savannah and stuck with a KOA sandwiched between Hwy 17 and 95. It… was a safe place to park and the showers were decent, I’ll give it that. The campground in St Augustine was out on the barrier islands and just a whole old Florida vibe (North Beach Camp Resort). I loved the privacy between spots, and the 2 restaurants within waking distance. Not cheap, and not normally our thing, but it was our anniversary. On our way back north we stopped in Charleston at a city park that had a campground (James Island County Park) . It was perfect y’all. Affordable, in/out privileges with a gate code after hours, a lake and a water park on site, wooded campsites with full hookups, and didn’t feel crowded even though it was relatively full.
Our second road trip was to a music festival that took us through West Virginia. We stayed in a couple of state parks passing through, and I definitely want to go back in the fall. WV just has beautiful parks, and I got a good dose of “felt like home” even though I’m from southwestern VA.
Being on the east coast, I wish we had more prevalent places to boondock such as BLM land. Sure we’ve got logging roads in National Forests, but there is also a lot of privately owned property peppered through the forests I’m familiar with, and I’m nervous I’m going to piss someone off by trespassing.
So where all have you been this season? Hit me with ideas!
I live in the Top End of Australia, and we got some pretty nice camping spots here. Unfortunately I don’t go camping to much because when I go camping it’s usually with a few other families which is great. The other reason is because we only go in the “winter” here which is just 18°C lol, the other half of the year is too damn hot to do anything.
Anyways we went camping at Daly River, we got a nice spot where we all set up and we had this nice little creek just to the side, there was also some nice crabbing spots a bit to the left. The current was a little strong though so it was basically a water treadmill haha, if you got sucked down you kinda just had to drag yourself back along the bottom with a couple of conveniently placed logs.
A short ride down from our camp-site the river opens wider surrounded by stone cliffs and this cool arch thing, you can go fishing there too, I caught a little fish. Although you can’t really go swimming here because of the risk of crocodiles. Some people do, some people don’t, depending on how brave/stupid you’re feeling, personally I didn’t because fuck that… the water is murky, I don’t know how deep it is, it looks crocodile paradise, oh yeah and don’t forget that it’s right next to a croc trap. I guess there were lots of people braver then me though because there was a rope swing on the other side of the bank from me.
Sorry for going on that little rant I just really love camping, I could probably keep writing about it until it’s my own book but it probably doesnt matter haha. Also I have to wake up early in the morning :(
I hope to get up your way the next time we do a trip to Australia. Darwin and Perth are two major areas that we haven’t explored yet. I would not be one of the ones to brave swimming, and I’ve done some pretty risky dumb shit. I loved camping in Tassie though (Cradle Mtn). Fewer crocs up on the mountain but the Park’s bus drivers are hella cranky! 😂
Yeah I’d say it’s definitely worthit to check out all the places around here! Make sure you book the places a few months beforehand though. I would definitely recommend going to Jim Jim falls