Info about sites for camping.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:56:37 GMT, "Jon walker" <[email hidden]>

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Hi, we are wondering if we are entitled to camp out overnight on beaches,
the remote ones of course!

No.

In practice, of course you can. This is our view of it:-

http://v-g.me.uk/WildCamp/WildCamp.htm

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This is what we read a long while ago.

Where, out of interest?

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Regards

-- GeoffC

Quoted message said:

Hi, we are wondering if we are entitled to camp out overnight on beaches,
the remote ones of course!

Can anyone shed any light on this please?

Thanks, Jon

Glad to assist - apparently it is inadvisable and prohibited to camp
overnight below the high tide mark. That bit is owned by HRH and she
takes a dim view of it. Her Garndmother wasn't amused either!

Steve

Jon walker said:

Hi, we are wondering if we are entitled to camp out overnight on
beaches, the remote ones of course!

What's wrong with the popular ones? Plenty of people do it, no big
deal. Nothing much to damage on a beach. Great place for driftwood
camp fires.

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=118749

Steve Jones said:

Glad to assist - apparently it is inadvisable and prohibited to camp
overnight below the high tide mark.

Oh come on, be adventurous! Which high tide mark are you talking about?
Spring, mean or neap? Camping below spring is easy, mean is a bit more
tricky, neap is just plain stupid.

Just buy yourself some tide tables.

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=118749

Quoted message said:

Hi, we are wondering if we are entitled to camp out overnight on beaches,
the remote ones of course!

Can anyone shed any light on this please?

Thanks, Jon

Remember camping on the shore of Loch Etive on a Mull to Aberdeen walk with
the family. Busy picking up the last hills of a Munro round.
We watched the sun go down as we ate our freeze dried reward for the day and
suddenly realised that the Loch had expanded somewhat and was now very close
to the tents! Quick look behind confirmed that the high water mark was up
behind us, then a few anxious moments watching the tide lap at the tent(s)
entrance before slowly receding away. It was touch and go, but the midges
persueded us that it was best to sit tight!
So easy on Etive to forget it was tidal, as the sea seems so far away! Magic
campsite, far enough away from roads to ensure no bother from anyone.
(Except the midges of course!)

The bottom line is you can just about camp anywhere. If thems that don't
like it, move you on, then move, graciously. Never been moved in over 20 yrs
of wild stuff. Stuffy gamekeeper with his Dutch(?) Laird up Loch Rannoch way
thought about it, but my daughter's big smile won the day. (Didn't tell him
I had only just finished rearranging his deer herd whilst doing the local
Corbett's though.) My mistake for camping in site of his landrover track.

In the Etive case, Canute would have been proved infallable!

Regards

Len

Geoff, Hi ........... can't remember where I read this - it was in a walking
book about 25 years ago!!

Thanks, Jon

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On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:56:37 GMT, "Jon walker" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hi, we are wondering if we are entitled to camp out overnight on beaches,
the remote ones of course!

No.

In practice, of course you can. This is our view of it:-

http://v-g.me.uk/WildCamp/WildCamp.htm

Quoted message said:

This is what we read a long while ago.

Where, out of interest?

Quoted message said:

Regards

-- GeoffC