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Free camps - Victoria Hill Bush Camp - image Desley Hodge
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8 PET FRIENDLY FREE CAMPS

Victoria Hill Bush Camp – image Desley Hodge Big thanks to Desley Hodge for sending in her photos of Victoria Hill Bush free camp – near Warwick, Queensland. Have you camped here? She said, “Had been mowed and river was full, so looked great with people fishing. We also loved 697 Canungra Showgrounds and NSW 169 Woodenbong Campground.” “LOVE the larger maps book. The hardcover makes it easier to have open on my lap and love having a visual of the campsites. Planning trip to Cooper Pedy next!” This newsletter is jam packed with pet-friendly FREE CAMPS across Australia, to

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Camps Australia Wide - Camping App Walgett
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“Simple”, “brilliant” and “easiest” camping App

Keith Lucht from Ipswich, Queensland called us at CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE to tell us about our App. He was excited. This camping App is so, so much simpler because you can just scroll through and that’s where we are – and it all comes up! You look at your town, we go to Walgett, and it is all there. I can touch the map and spread it to where I want to go.  I’ve got every single App for camping in Australia and yours is easiest! Miles easier!  I’ve had more apps than you can poke a stick at. I’ve

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Camping Tips

How to plan THE best camping and RV trips

Beautiful Tasmania What do you need to know about trip planning? Here is more ‘how-to” in our “Camping 101” series.  When you are building an itinerary it can all seem a little daunting. There is a lot to decide – how far to travel each day, types of campgrounds and importantly just how many days, weeks or months you can escape for! Making an itinerary is STEP 4 of our new year reset and travel goals. If you missed them, we recommend you check dates and set travel goals and build a wishlist. I like to set it all down

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Views of Stanley and The Nut, Tasmania
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BEST Aussie camps for 2022 – our personal favourites

Views of Stanley and The Nut, Tasmania Here’s our personal favourites from where we’ve been this year. Heatley and I have travelled far and wide in 2022, and so have our CAMPS Ambassadors. So grab a cuppa, and check out our list for your 2023 trip planning! Click on the links to find out more! Tasmania  Stanley Recreation Ground (photographed from The Nut), Tasmania Oh, I’ll be back in a heartbeat. We weren’t here for long, but in usual CAMPS style we covered some country. From Launceston to Marrawah on the West Coast, and all down the north east corner. Ahhh! So

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Diamantina
Camping

12 tips for finding last minute campgrounds during peak season

This couple were very happy at Diamantina Cooper Rest Area, near Windorah and Quilpie, QLD Do you need a last minute campground or caravan park? Here’s our ‘Camping 101’ tips… For popular caravan parks and camps, you need to book ahead over peak periods like Christmas, summer, Easter, other school holidays and often The Dry season up north. Some bookings at iconic beach parks or camps can only be won in a ballot. But if you are like us, we don’t often plan ahead. We love not knowing where we’ll be that night. Perhaps you’ve just secured time off over summer,

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CAMPS Tips on Touring Tasmania
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Tips on Touring Tasmania

Ezra from the UK, is touring Tasmania – and hiring a motorhome for a week’s camping. He said places are booking out already, and was hoping for some advice…  Now, we’re just back from Tasmania and it is no surprise bookings are busy. Especially around that time. We had trouble, too – but there was still room in free camps. Now to ‘Camping 101’ tips! Firstly – here is our latest article that is perfect for you. I would recommend choosing one corner of Tasmania (depending on where you fly into Tasmania), otherwise in a week you’ll spend a lot

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Tyla holding the new Camps 12 editions
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What is the difference between CAMPS 12 and CAMPS 11?

We are proud to announce CAMPS 12 is available for preorder. Each new edition is different -some of our customers collect each one! An hour after it was released, we’ve had queries about how it differs. So here are the changes we’ve made for CAMPS 12: CAMPS 12 has the LATEST new sites and dump points and updates of existing sites – since CAMPS 11 there’s over 2 years of research from our team expert CAMPS detectives, our CAMPS Ambassadors and CAMPS Community LATEST Hema Maps – still the same format as CAMPS 11, but updated CAMPS 12 has more

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Travel Games - CAMPS Adult Spotto
Camping Tips

Adult SPOTTO

For the rules and whatnot check out our CAMPS SPOTTO GAME FOR FAMILIES. If you are like us, and now travel without the kids, here’s a list that you can have some fun together with driving big distances… Forget the yellow car spotto – have some fun, and stop off at some of these… SPOT THE Pub Dump Point RV/Caravan Parking Winery Big Things (it doesn’t matter how old you are, this is still fun) Toilets (handy, too) Brewery Bakery Free Camp Distillery Wombat signs on the Tarkine Road, Tasmania Now if you are lapping, here’s a few more things

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Wordle
Camping Tips

FREE online daily games for the Road: Wordle, Worldle, Waffle, Heardle and more!

Here’s some games you can play for free – you just need internet. Wordle Is Wordle a great little camping brain teaser for one (if you have signal) or is it really just a trumped up game of hangman? (Personally, I love it. And hearing about people’s strategies like using different letters for your second line, favourite start words or changing it up…) Wordle 269 3/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Worldle My geography teacher dad would have loved this! You have 6 guesses, and after each guess you are pointed in the correct direction with a distance away from the correct country.

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