Travel Diary. Day 1 – South Australia
Day One – South Australia Long Service Leave Trip
Chaffey Dam, Nundle NSW
Cold winter camping, campfire cooking and wide open spaces
Hat Head National Park, NSW
MId North Coast NSW.
Penong Windmill Museum
Details: Check out Windmill Museum on TripAdvisor. Attractions like The Windmill Museum in Penong, South Australia are what we love about travelling in Australia! Little country towns have so much to offer caravaners. Make sure you take the detour off main roads to...
Streaky Bay Islands Caravan Park
Details: Caravan Park! This caravan park might look dry and barren from the air, but don't be fooled! The gorgeous Eyre Peninsula Australia's Seafood Frontier is where the desert meets the sea. Streaky Bay Islands Caravan Park is one of the best parks ever! A brand...
Pildappa Rock
Details: Long drop toilets here, and dogs and campfires are allowed. Check out this beauty of a free campsite! Pildappa Rock! Just off the Eyre Highway, near Minnipa, South Australia. A spectacular spot to add to your list while Free Camping Australia. Please leave a...
Yarrangobilly Village, NSW
Details: Long drop toilets. Fires allowed. Kosciuszko National Park. Lovely green campground amongst village ruins. Close to Yarrangobilly caves. Riverside camping.
Carcoar Dam NSW
Details: Flushing toilets and cold showers. Dogs and fires allowed. Free! Near Blayney. Free campsite on the Dam.
Blowering Dam NSW
Details: Free campground. Long drop toilets. No dogs as this is Kosciuszko National Park. Fires allowed. Near Tumut NSW. Waterfront.
Mannus Lake NSW
Details: Flushing toilets. Fires and dogs allowed. Free! Free camp near Tumbarumba. Great views and sunsets. Waterfront camping.
Wooldridge Fossicking Reserve, Uralla NSW
Details: Long drop toilets and fires allowed. Free campground near Uralla. Not many level sites unless you camp in the carpark. We camped closer to the water, so needed quite a bit of levelling. Nice swimming hole. We were covered with gold glitter after swimming,...
Split Rock Dam
Details: No facilities at the dam, but available close by at campground if you aren't self sufficient. Dam level is very low. We camped close to the water, so actually in the dam! Long grass but not muddy at all. It's been dry for a long time. The actual campground...
Cameron Corner
Details: Flushing toilets, showers and BBQs. Fires and dogs allowed. Unpowered $25 per night, or bush camping $10 per vehicle and $5 per shower. There are powered sites available at the pub at Cameron Corner. We chose to camp in the vast unpowered campground alongside...
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna
Details: No facilities. Totally free. Dogs and fires allowed. Near William Creek SA. (Well, that is the closest town, but not really near William Creek!) Amazing campsite on the lake. Lots of flies through the day. Lovely views and you are likely to be the only ones...
Oodnadatta track SA – Mutonia Sculpture Park
Details: No facilities. Free. Not really near anything, SA. A quiet reminder of the past, this site was used for B&S balls and thousands of attendees. Just you and the flies.
East Gresford Showground near Dungog NSW
Details: Choice of powered or not, flushing toilets, gold coin hot showers, fires and dogs allowed and swimming hole close to Pub. From $15 per site This is one of our local haunts for weekend getaways!
Gumma Reserve NSW
Details: Near Macksville on the creek, caretaker on site, flush toilets, dog and fires allowed $8pp off peak
Historic Currabubula Pub NSW
Details: Flush toilets, hot showers, donation box. We stayed at the Freedom Campground/Oval down the road.
Nindigully Pub
Details: Fires and dogs allowed. Flushing toilets 24 hours. Free! Awesome free pub campground. Waterfront camping and plentiful fishing. Fires and dogs allowed. Flushing toilets 24 hours, and hot showers while the pub is trading. Waterfront camping can be very muddy...
Cangai Bridge, NSW
Details: You need to be self-sufficient. There are no facilities at all. You need to contain grey water. Dogs and fires allowed. Totally Free! This campground was a little tricky to find as you need to drive a road stating "no Caravans" It is off-putting, but the sign...
Upsalls Creek Forest
Details: Dogs and fires allowed. Clean drop toilet. FREE! When visiting the NSW state forest near Kew, we stayed at Swans Crossing Campground. This is totally free with very clean drop toilets. Set on a picturesque creek, great swimming area with a nice creekside...
