Exterior Travel with or without water?

[Dobbie]

Van water sometimes but usually from the 20 litre plastic Jerry that's always in the car. We have a battery operated pump for it...and a hand pump that gets use if the DD batteries are flat.

It's the slab of Costco or Coles or woollies water that saves us worrying.

 

[1DayIll]

Van water sometimes but usually from the 20 litre plastic Jerry that's always in the car. We have a battery operated pump for it...and a hand pump that gets use if the DD batteries are flat.

It's the slab of Costco or Coles or woollies water that saves us worrying.

I must admit, i always think I should have some water in the van at all times. We have been caught out on the country roads before and had to buy it anyway.

 

[Drover]

Usually have a $6 slab of Woollies water in the ute always and a 10lt baby Jerry in back for wahing sand and stuff off..
Why Woollies water ?...... only have them here 50km to next supermarket......need to have at least tank of water as Ole Stinky runs off the tanks, it's on the To Do list to mod, one day.

Only 29 votes so far, where is everyone ?? An interesting subject this, has brought up some things I hadn't really thought of much.

 

[mfexpanda]

Full if we are heading somewhere that has no water or if we are free camping on the way to a caravan park .
Otherwise emptyish

 

[WHHEMI]

Always full, we free camp 95% of the time and need water, plus you don't know the quality of caravan park water.

 

[bigcol]

I'm like @Dobbie carry slab of whatever water for coffee's etc

but we dont free camp at the moment, so..............................

 

[bigcol]

it's peaceful,without the alarm going off. I almost miss it!

hahahahahahahaha

 

[Tuppy]

Ok thought from the other thread I start a poll.
If your heading to a park with water do you normally leave the tanks full.
I have been told by a few friends when we first got the van to always travel with full tanks as it lowers the centre of gravity. So we always leave home full.
Although it adds to weight and TBM.. Your burning extra fuel for nothing

So what do people normally do?

I never datty water if I'm not going to need it. And even if I'm going to need water when I getvto a free camping destination, I fill up as cl9se to my destination as I can, rather than drag 200kg there needlessly.

 

[Dobbie]

Aaahhhh....you must be more decisive then me...or plan better.

We sometimes stumble on a site, like the look of it and stay.

If we don't have water, we can't stay and some of our best free camps have been discovered this way.

So, for us, we're hydrated and ready and willing to find new spots off grid.

but to each his own....

 

[megcam]

Always full. Somewhere in the back of my mind, even for a weekender, is the hope/thought that we can just keep going and not go back to real life:frown:

 

[Delano]

We usually travel with ours full.
Lucky we did last Christmas we were heading to Adelaide, just near Hal's Gap
When I spotted a small grass fire on the edge of the road.
We used all our water in about 5minutes .
Till cfa arrived
Fieries thanked us reckoned it would've burnt more than just a paddock if we hadn't had our tanks full.
So from that day on , tanks are always full.

 

[Drover]

Well done @Delano ................:rockon: