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07/8/2012 at 6:43pm
 Location: Peak District
 Outfit: Vango Diablo 400xp
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...for most unusual thing on a campsite!

On our second day of camping a couple arrived with their caravan. They parked the caravan, set up their awning and wind breaks and then sat a full size, sitting down plastic gorilla outside their caravan!!!

I couldn't resist and had to go and ask them why - they said that when they last went out in their caravan everyone they spoke to was really friendly but no one actually came over to talk to them - they had to do all the going to. So they decided to get something of a feature and the woman had driven to Wales a couple of weeks before to collect "George" the gorilla.

I meant to get a photo of my two girls stood next to it but completely forgot - although I did get one from a distance that I will try to download.

Has anyone else seen anything quite as bonkers?

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Planned 2012 camping (so far)
May - the field at the top of our lane with half the village!
July - Waxham Sands
August - wild camping in a field near Llanthony Priory, Wales


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07/8/2012 at 7:24pm
 Location: Chilwell Notts
 Outfit: None Entered
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Lol, sounds like a bloody good idea though!

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They also die if you leave them in the freezer.
Please keep your dogs at room temperature!


07/8/2012 at 7:44pm
 Location: North Wiltshire
 Outfit: Elddis & 3 tents
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Very funny but it worked. How many others went over to ask about George?


07/8/2012 at 7:50pm
 Location: west country
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Some folks on a site we were on had two realistic life sized Alsation dogs outside their van.

I think their intention may have been to frighten people away. I know my wife thought they were real and wouldn't walk that way until I told her after about 3 days.


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07/8/2012 at 7:52pm
 Location: between here & there
 Outfit: 2 berth corniche 15 2 x-type jag
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oh i can see it now...campsites all over the country populated by an ever growing managerie of giant inflatable animals, am off to find a hippo now....1717

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07/8/2012 at 11:51pm
 Location: Ipswich
 Outfit: Vango Sigma 300+ & Orchy 400
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Your mad the lot of you your all mad I tell you

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Nothing nada zilch no camping this year boohoo


07/8/2012 at 11:57pm
 Location: Lichfield
 Outfit: Coachman Amara 450
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If I had an immitation Gorilla sitting on a chair outside my caravan and anyone asked me why it was there, I would respond with a humourous 'SWIFT' answer such as...."The wife is in the caravan but this is my 'ELDDIS' daughter!" 


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08/8/2012 at 11:57am
 Location: North Yorkshire
 Outfit: Holi * Perran 4 * Airedale 5
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I find my caravan and Mini are a good icebreaker too!

Maybe I should invest in a giant inflatable too!!



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Helen xx
Mini Mad Mum


08/8/2012 at 3:47pm
 Location: west country
 Outfit: None Entered
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Used to go to a site who had a regular visitor who put about 3 or 4 model sheep (about 1/2 size) outside the awning.
I don't know why - she just did.


08/8/2012 at 6:43pm
 Location: lincolnshire
 Outfit: Bailey Pageant Burgundy +Kia Sorento
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We take our two gnomes (big gnome and Arfa) everywhere we go and we always place them out front.

It brings a smile to peoples faces as they walk by mmmmmmm................ wonder if they do lifesize inflatable ones.

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08/8/2012 at 9:35pm
 Location: Hampshire
 Outfit: Airgo horizon 6 - 2016
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Love the gnome idea

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No longer a camping virgin!
July 2012 - Newquay, Cornwall
Aug 2012 - Dawlish, Devon
July 2013 - North Devon
Aug 2014 - Sanford park
Aug 2016 - Hendra


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08/8/2012 at 9:59pm
 Location: Berkshire
 Outfit: 2011Swift Conqueror 645 Grand Cherokee
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Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 07/8/2012
Some folks on a site we were on had two realistic life sized Alsation dogs outside their van.

I think their intention may have been to frighten people away. I know my wife thought they were real and wouldn't walk that way until I told her after about 3 days.



Funny you should say this i walked across a site a few months ago to the dog walk and froze when i saw a still dog with a look on it's face a didn't like then the panic went as i thought the dog isn't real it's not moving so i carried on and suddenly this dog shot forward and nearly attacked mine with an inch to spare. My dog nearly knocked me over in fright. The owners thought it was funny being as my dog is a Rott and theirs was a small terrier but i didn't i was livid.

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Jackie


09/8/2012 at 12:51pm
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Quote: Originally posted by JackieandSteve on 08/8/2012
Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 07/8/2012Some folks on a site we were on had two realistic life sized Alsation dogs outside their van.

I think their intention may have been to frighten people away. I know my wife thought they were real and wouldn't walk that way until I told her after about 3 days.



Funny you should say this i walked across a site a few months ago to the dog walk and froze when i saw a still dog with a look on it's face a didn't like then the panic went as i thought the dog isn't real it's not moving so i carried on and suddenly this dog shot forward and nearly attacked mine with an inch to spare. My dog nearly knocked me over in fright. The owners thought it was funny being as my dog is a Rott and theirs was a small terrier but i didn't i was livid.



And so would I be, I know who's dog would have been blamed if there had been an incident.....just not acceptable and not fair.

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09/8/2012 at 5:20pm
 Location: Berkshire
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Quote: Originally posted by Janx on 09/8/2012
Quote: Originally posted by Janx on 09/8/2012
Quote: Originally posted by JackieandSteve on 08/8/2012
Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 07/8/2012Some folks on a site we were on had two realistic life sized Alsation dogs outside their van. I think their intention may have been to frighten people away. I know my wife thought they were real and wouldn't walk that way until I told her after about 3 days.

Funny you should say this i walked across a site a few months ago to the dog walk and froze when i saw a still dog with a look on it's face a didn't like then the panic went as i thought the dog isn't real it's not moving so i carried on and suddenly this dog shot forward and nearly attacked mine with an inch to spare. My dog nearly knocked me over in fright. The owners thought it was funny being as my dog is a Rott and theirs was a small terrier but i didn't i was livid.



And so would I be I am with you on this, I know who's dog would have been blamed if there had been an incident.....just not acceptable and not fair.




Edit to say senor moment sorry posted twice




Thanks Janx. I think and hope it was a one off and hope to not come across them again. Most people who's dogs do that apologise to me but there's always one.

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