Hi Tigermouse, you are quite welcome to come and talk to us all about the broads on www.thenorfolkbroads.net
I know both the rangers, Tobi and Bret, that take care of Salhouse broad,hire out the canoes ect, and have often cooked them up a meal when we have been down there, along with the local broads beat lads and the Ba rangers who run the little launches with the blue lights on the top!
If ever you are heading that way again let me know, i may be able to get you a ride on a boat for the price of a pint for the skipper, or for free if it happens to be me!
Julia
------------- Just love to be out amoungst Nature and Wildlife
Celebrating 37 years of Caravanning in 2019, Recently Considered Retiring, but Totally Addicted for Life!
Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 08/6/2010
Hi Tigermouse, you are quite welcome to come and talk to us all about the broads on www.thenorfolkbroads.net
Just made my first post Julia
If ever you are heading that way again let me know, i may be able to get you a ride on a boat for the price of a pint for the skipper, or for free if it happens to be me!
Sounds brill - I love boats! Hopefully be down that way again in August
------------- Tigermouse
I have a very temperamental personality - 50% temper and 50% mental
Used to have an old ridge tent with no porch, so food was kept in carrier bags outside under the flysheet. Was awoken to find a goat wedged between the inner and the flysheet,munching on a loaf of bread, still in its plastic bag. The campsite owner used to let the goat into the field on purpose, just for a laugh.
This thread had me a chuckling...we have had our share of nocturnal visiitors before we got our Greyhounds..We were in the new forest and went to wash up...I had forgotten something and returned to the tent to find two ponies in the tent!! It was bulging as they squeezed in!!! luckily they reversed out with no damage..a later trip to the forest and a donkey which all weekend had been ambling around...reached in and stole a bag of boots and sprinted off across the site with me in hot pursuit!!! We had an evening of watching river rats raiding outr neighbours tent on Exmoor...its the joys of being close to nature that makes camping so good....
------------- Life is to short to miss out on getting your tent out
My dad lives in Florida, when I visited with my hubby and daughter about 13 years ago we took our tent and went camping in Myakka State Park (think that's the right spelling). Anyway, my stepbrother and his wife had organised it for us to get away from the oldies for a couple of days!
Every pitch has a fire pit and picnic table, and we pitched two tents. We were quite merry (beer-merry) and were hysterical that as I turned round to face the table after sitting sideways, there was a raccoon nose to nose with me. We shooed them away, then a raccoon ripped a hole in my step-brothers tent. He stuffed his coat in it... about two in the morning he was running after the raccoons trying to get his coat back! It was fun though. Not so fun when an aliigator walked past us next morning....
We recently had a fortnight in cornwall, and the campsite was full of bunnies .On a couple of occaisons they left us a small prezzie on the carpet.
My littleman,5 did confess on the way home to leaving carrots out for them,and apparently they don't like potatoes or onions we must have run out of carrots.
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Karla-------Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.It's about learning to dance in the rain.
We've just got back from our first week away in our RW6. We were pitched next to a barn with swallows & house-martins nesting under the eaves, one of which thought she'd check out the 'eyebrow' mini-canopies over our tent windows. That was fine, but the other interloper was one of the farmyard cats who I suspected all week of coming in to pee on the dog bed when OH left the door open, not fine! My suspicions were confirmed when I picked it up to pack it in the car. Phew what a stink! Guess what's first in the washing machine when I unload the car in a minute!
When I was a teenager I was camping with my mates and they were always up in the morning before me. One time while we were camping by the river they thought I needed a wake up call, so they caught a duck and chucked it into my very small two man tent and zipped the tent up and held the zip. Now I know this is a terrible thing to do for the duck but it was pretty bad for me, duck crap everywhere....
I used to camp in the new Forest, and was warned about the donkeys and ponies. Never to leave any food where they could get at it. lol. Great fun.... but I never had one actually in my tent.
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Topic: Birds in Tent!
we must have run out of carrots.
Guess what's first in the washing machine when I unload the car in a minute!
