Show Me Your Dry Camp Pics!!!

[Funrover]

I never actually go to a campground with all the bells whistle, rarely a Forest campground, I mostly dry camp it entirely... so I like seeing pics!!

Here are a few....

[cb]

I have some pictures to share, but can't figure out how to do it.  I use Picasa.

[tlhdoc]

If you check out my webshots album you will find dry camping pictures.

[Captain Scrappy]

Here are some of mine from Crested Butte area in Colorado

[wavery]

If you click on my "Webshots" link in my signature, almost all of mine are "dry camping". However, they are not "Boon-docking" except the "Palmyra" page......that is the ULTIMATE boon-docking.  

[JimS]

How do you get pictures into your post?  For some reason its not working for me.

[Funrover]

How do you get pictures into your post?  For some reason its not working for me.

I have a free account at //www.photobucket.com and thats how I do it!

[JimS]

That's what I'm going to have to do.  Thanks.

[wavery]

I have a free account at //www.photobucket.com and thats how I do it!

That's what I use too.

You just download the picture that you want to display. It will give you an "Image Code" that looks like this:
 [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/wkavery/PortaPotty.jpg[IMG]

Just copy that and paste it into your post.

I always go in and "Edit" > "Resize" the picture to "Website, Email (320 x 240) before I post it so that it isn't obnoxiously big. :sombraro:

[TheViking]

This was last weekend out in the Mojave Desert

[beacher]

WOW Wavery!  You made that palmyra18 picture up in Photoshop!


....Or, it's a screen capture borrowed from a Gilligan's Island episode!  Or maybe the latest Pirates of the Carribean Movie, yeah, you sneaked in a camera!  That's gotta be the most idyllic beach scene ever!  I keep expecting to see Ursula Andress come out of the water!!


That is my new wallpaper!!

[wavery]

WOW Wavery!  You made that palmyra18 picture up in Photoshop!


....Or, it's a screen capture borrowed from a Gilligan's Island episode!  Or maybe the latest Pirates of the Carribean Movie, yeah, you sneaked in a camera!  That's gotta be the most idyllic beach scene ever!  I keep expecting to see Ursula Andress come out of the water!!


That is my new wallpaper!!

Palmyra is a pretty magical place. Impossible to get to if you don't own your own boat (ocean going motorhome).

It's 900 miles SSW of Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It was a secret submarine refueling station during WWII. We had 3,000 troops on that island at one time and the Navy occupied it until 1954 when the rightful owners sued the Navy to get it back (the war being long over). They recently sold it to The Conservatory of the Pacific for $12M. The US government offered them $50M but they turned it down because they were going to use it as a nuclear waste dump site.

Palmyra is one of the most unique places on this planet. It was uninhabited from 1954, when the Navy pulled out and left everything sitting. The machine shop was fully stocked. The beds were still made in the hospital. The heavy equipment (like the grader in my pictures) were still there. Running Jeeps, generators, bunk houses, diesel fuel (about 50K gallons) and everything. All just the way it was left in 1954.

I first sailed there in 1984 and spent 3 months there. Several other visiting yachts came and went while we were there. The USCG stopped by a few times. Other than that, we were there alone, most of the time.

I stopped again in 1994 for 3 months and the difference was amazing. The entire place had been scavenged. Most anything of any value was gone and a lot of stuff was just torn up (like the inside of the hospital). It appeared that someone came in (with a very big boat and a lot of men) and took all of the metals for salvage. Probably 50 tons of pure copper wire, a lot of gold (it was used for electrical connectors then) and tin. The generators were gone, as was all of the inventory from the work shop. All of the diesel fuel was gone. The hospital was stripped of everything and the interior walls were torn out to get to the wiring.

What no one could take away was the raw beauty and purity of the place. The sea life there is like no where else on earth.

[TheViking]

I never actually go to a campground with all the bells whistle, rarely a Forest campground, I mostly dry camp it entirely... so I like seeing pics!!
 
Here are a few....

 

 

 

Hey, who's the guy drinking the beer that looks like he's ready to fall over?  He'd fit in pretty good with our group.

[Funrover]

That would be my buddy Ryan  LOL

[OGCG]

OMG!!. No concrete pads!
No 30 amps..!
No 50K bathhouse!!
"Real Campers""
Great pic's too