Fun on four wheels

ISO 80 f/6.9 1/250 Focal length 80mm

This morning Colin and I visited a caravan and camping show in one of the northern suburbs of the Gold Coast.

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, we have bought an off road camper trailer so that one day (soon I hope!) we will be able to pack up and disappear into the dusty interior - that will have to be when the flood have all retreated! Anyway, it is because of our intentions that we went with eyes open for ideas and methods of making outback camping and putting up the tent easier!

ISO 80 f/6.9 1/250 Focal length 60mm

I am afraid I was attracted to the display put on by the Four Wheel Drive club! Many moons ago Colin and I formed a Four Wheel Drive Club and went on many great excursion with our young family - and because we were a family, the club attracted people with small children as well as adventurous singles and retirees. Anyway, that is beside the point! It was because of that earlier interest that I watched in envy as the vehicles were driven over a specially constructed course to entertain the people who had gone expecting to see caravans and campers!

ISO 80 f/6.3 1/350 Focal length 39mm

Once Colin managed to pull me away from the four wheel drive exhibition - it was in slow motion so not something you would spend too long watching - we peered into camper trailers of every description and size. I had not realised that there were so many different manufactures of camper trailers. In a way they are the same but all have small differences. The way in which the kitchen modules are built into the trailer and the way the gas bottles and fuel cans are attached to the sides are the biggest differences - oh yes, and the price! You can pay so much for a canvas topped camper trailer that any thinking person would save money by buying a super dooper caravan!

Our trailer was cheap compared to every camper on display at this show but my argument is that if you were asked to spend more than that you would be very silly - you can go outback and stay at five star resorts anywhere (yes! in the outback!) and no matter how many nights you spent away you would not spend the sort of money that was being asked for these campers.
We came home happy - we found a kitchen module! Not a box that is like a drawer that pulls out of the trailer and takes up a lot of space, the one we found is a frame with tables on either side, a place for the stove that converts to hold the wash basin and upright supports at the back for the camp light for night cooking! It packs up small - ish and flat. Colin is "stoked"!
AJ