The idea was simple - take my girlfriend back to Usal Beach for St-Valentine.
We had been there about 8 years ago with the FJ62 and a roof top tent (when it was still a novelty here, I bought one of the first that Martyn brought over from S.A.!).
We had had a perfect time and I was looking forward to go back.
I had visions of a nice romantic time on a secluded beach.
Well, dream turns into nightmare sometimes.
I was expecting mud and rain and it was indeed very wet.
But what I was not expecting is a group of teenagers partying...all night...
We actually met a couple of them when looking for a place to park and they seem nice. As usual, they were quite surprised at the sight of a 4x4 VW van.
I must say I was also a bit surprised to see a guy with a black Tacoma doing donuts around their site and throwing mud/rocks all over their camp.
They had perhaps 4 or 6 trucks all lifted and with mud terrains - they were here to have some fun to say the least.
I figured they would keep drinking all night and we could live with the loud music.
What I was not expecting however are the guys driving all over the place with several trucks all night long while shooting with their guns.
It remained me of a bad Mad Max movie.
I don't think I slept more than an hour. I was thinking they will either shoot us by accident or slam their truck in a tree.
They were racing all over the place for hours, doing donuts wherever they could.
Indeed, when we left the place the next morning we came across this:
Obviously one of the guy had rolled over during the night.
We did not see any of them and decided to head North toward Shelter Cove.
As we were leaving we came across this - I am quite positive that this group hadn't read it:
We had been there about 8 years ago with the FJ62 and a roof top tent (when it was still a novelty here, I bought one of the first that Martyn brought over from S.A.!).
We had had a perfect time and I was looking forward to go back.
I had visions of a nice romantic time on a secluded beach.
Well, dream turns into nightmare sometimes.
I was expecting mud and rain and it was indeed very wet.
But what I was not expecting is a group of teenagers partying...all night...
We actually met a couple of them when looking for a place to park and they seem nice. As usual, they were quite surprised at the sight of a 4x4 VW van.
I must say I was also a bit surprised to see a guy with a black Tacoma doing donuts around their site and throwing mud/rocks all over their camp.
They had perhaps 4 or 6 trucks all lifted and with mud terrains - they were here to have some fun to say the least.
I figured they would keep drinking all night and we could live with the loud music.
What I was not expecting however are the guys driving all over the place with several trucks all night long while shooting with their guns.
It remained me of a bad Mad Max movie.
I don't think I slept more than an hour. I was thinking they will either shoot us by accident or slam their truck in a tree.
They were racing all over the place for hours, doing donuts wherever they could.
Indeed, when we left the place the next morning we came across this:
Obviously one of the guy had rolled over during the night.
We did not see any of them and decided to head North toward Shelter Cove.
As we were leaving we came across this - I am quite positive that this group hadn't read it:
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