Shit Happens

Today I'm pissed off, Bigly! I left Brisbane and drove up the East Coast just a ways to a campground in the region of Noosa National Park. Most of the drive was on the motorway so not too much to say. I thought it was going to be an outstanding place to stay. Habitat Noosa - supposed to be sort of an eco-campground. Well, it's fucking school holidays in Queensland. So the place is pretty crowded with lots of families with kids. Nothing wrong with families but I just don't really relish camping alongside them. And the killer was; I got in and went to make up the bed in the Troopy. I had washed sheets and stuff when I was in Brisbane. Well, I left my pillows in the AirBnB in Brisbane. I thought I was so damned careful to make sure I cleared everything out. But that was just one thing that I didn't see. I can kludge some stuff together to make it work and they were cheap pillows anyway but it just really pisses me off that I'm going to have to figure out how and where to replace them. I'm going to be here two nights. I've got a plan to download a shitload of maps that I didn't get done in Brisbane. Another screw up on my part. They've got wifi here and I was really hoping that it would extend to the camping areas. No such luck. Only near the clubhouse. I wanted to install a bunch of stuff on the Android Head unit on the Troopy. To do that, I need to park close to a wifi source. I'm gonna let this go until tomorrow and add to it. Maybe I'll be more chill by then.

Okay, a day later. This campground kinda sucks, a lot. There are some cabins, called the KangaRooms, if you can believe it. And a bunch of kind of fance glamping things. I don't even know what to call them. It's really crazy! The camping areas are kind of around them but you can't walk on the walkways between the glamps! There are little signs that say reseved. But in the evening the kangaroos come out and they don't give a rat's ass about signs so they chow down on the grass around these fancy places. I think these run over 200 AUD per night and maybe 25% of them were occupied.

One good thing about this place is that they actually brew beer and have a fairly nice place to sit and drink one while accessing their wifi.

And like I said above, it's Queensland school holidays. I was warned about this before I even camd down here. So the place is full of families with kids. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that. But it's not my style at all. Kids riding around on bicyles all over the place. And making all of the kid noises when they're messing with their friends. That's fine at times, just not now. Lots of caravans and camper trailers and they set up some amazing tent structures around their campsites.

To put this one to bed...I'm learning a bunch about camping in Australia. It's a bit different than in the US. Or maybe it's just my perspective on US camping. But there's a lot more people who camp in some fashion down here. Well, maybe not more but a much higher percentage. One of these days I'll do a whole blog on camping...maybe including some info on my Troopy.