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How exciting! School holidays are here and we are escaping south! Covid fingers crossed.
Heatley and I had our first vaccine. It was astrazeneca, only to find out that day they lifted the age to 60!
Wayne and one of his planes – de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth Meet Wayne Davy, who has been supporting owners, Michelle and Heatley Gilmore with IT for over a decade! Michelle says, “We are so lucky to have Wayne on our team, he is such a detail person, and really cares about our work. If I need help (and that is often with IT) – he is there, checking it out and talking me through it! He also inputs the hundreds of photos I add to our blog!” What is your role in CAMPS? IT Support & Website Admin Who do
Absolute gems, Jed and Tyla are the friendly voices you’ll hear when you call our office. We first met Tyla when she was working in reception at our doctor’s surgery. Back when they were a family of four, they kindly agreed to help us with a photo shoot and TV ad for another business. Not long after that we bought CAMPS and both Tyla and Jed started verifying sites. Their dedication and sense of detail meant they were first in our list when we expanded our team in 2019. They are both very active on their school’s P&C, and we
My name is Graham Gardiner. I am 72 year old and married to Judy for 52 years, with three daughters and seven grandchildren. We live in Maleny, Queensland and been here for 12 years. In all our travels around Oz we have not found a place that we like better! What is your role? My role at Camps is as a researcher. I enjoy sharing sites that we come across in our travels and also tracking down new sites and sharing them and visiting them in my later travels, if feasible. How did you come to work for CAMPS? My
Leisa has been with us since 2009, as our Technology and Marketing PA. She handles the design and distribution of the Camps Newsletter that Heatley and I write for you each fortnight and she is also one of our teams’ web designers and created our current app website. Originally from Queensland, she decided to travel a few years ago, house sitting around Australia and continuing to work for us remotely. “Once when I was on the road, Heatley called me with some urgent work. I found a place with internet signal, pulled up under a shady tree somewhere outside Gundagai,
The team at CAMPS send our sad farewell to Kym Leech, who passed away this month. He and his partner, Lyn Hutton, formed the ‘No Boundaries’ team. They had the enviable job of visiting and photographing campsites all over Australia – and helped us keep the book and app updated. The last time I chatted with Kym, they helped me write an article on their experiences working for CAMPS – Kym updated me on what he referred to as a “speed hump” that had him “semi-bolted to the driveway”. The “speed hump” was acute myeloid leukaemia. “Had we waited for
Sheng with his Camps 9 Based on the Sunshine Coast, Sheng has worked in the field extensively, as a CAMPS auditor. He has just returned from a trip up to Normanton, via Roma, Mitchell, Blackall, Barcaldine, Cloncurry. He returned back down the Queensland coast, updating campground information and images, and reporting on new sites along the way. Later this year, he’s back on the road, planning some fishing and research on the the way to Coober Pedy – via Birdsville and William Creek. His motorhome is seen in many photos in our books – you may notice the green sign,
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Cathryn and Philip hand over the reins to Michelle and Heatley New owners in 2018, Heatley and Michelle Gilmore continue on the tradition of twenty years worth of travel and research to provide Australia’s most comprehensive and easy to use guides with over 4000 free camps and budget campsites, 2300 caravan parks, that help you save money and travel further. Heatley and Michelle took their family around Australia with CAMPS 7 a few years back – six of them in a six berth motorhome, making treasured family memories. Based on the Cooloola Coast in Queensland, they’re looking forward to more
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