Public camping- what is your toilet options

[Sir Roofy]

@NIC some long drops are pretty gross mate if Jane wont use it then its bad

[BigRAWesty]

It does seem that some people have a ’thing’ about using public toilets, & especially ‘long drops’.
Not us though. Our Portapotti is for when camped at places where there is no public toilet & digging holes is inappropriate or as is not uncommon - impossible because of hard/rocky ground.

Were the same as most times were near water..
So a 100m dash is not always gunna end well..
If out bush I do tend to dig a hole and empty portaloo contents. But mt gambier now has a free dump point at the show grounds so have used that a couple of times..
We run the 100% biodegradable chemical..
At $60 a bottle it's not cheap but it'll last a few years with the amount of time we use it..

[NissanGQ4.2]

im sorry but can i just ask, why is using public toilets a problem?

Personally I don't have a problem with public toilets and if there are public toilets available I will use them.

Unfortunately my daughter has a phobia of long drops and its much easier to take the portapotty then 2 put up with her carry on

[Cuppa]

http://caravanandmotorhomebooks.com/...-septic-tanks/

[Winnie]

Thanks for the info Cuppa, we bought a bottle of the Porta-Potti chemicals when we bought the toilet. (still unused) but when that bottle is empty we'll try the Napisan equivalents for sure.
I'd heard of it before but never knew how to use it, or how much to use etc.

[MyGU8]

im sorry but can i just ask, why is using public toilets a problem? is that what you mean? or are you saying when there are no toilets available? if thats what you mean tegan and I take a pop up toilet tent and have a fold-able toilet seat, its made from woven plastic so when we get home we just hose it off to clean it. we dig a decent hole and make sure that everything gets buried nice and deep.

Maybe I was in at the wrong time, as it was almost end of school holidays, but the status of the long drop I saw wasn't really in good hygienic, it's all good for me, but for kids I am a bit worried, because i was planning to spend my time in camping than in hospital and I hope you know what will happen with missus if the kids get sick on boys day out....!.

Cheers,

[sooty_10]

I have an aldi porta loo and shower tent. Works a treat the missus is happy to go behind a tree when no one else is around. But even i have to admit for a no.2 it is a luxury. I even took it up camping/shooting with the boys and coped a heap of flack from them, yet they all used it....

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[Winnie]

I have an aldi porta loo and shower tent. Works a treat the missus is happy to go behind a tree when no one else is around. But even i have to admit for a no.2 it is a luxury. I even took it up camping/shooting with the boys and coped a heap of flack from them, yet they all used it....

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Nah stuff em! If they're gonna give you shit about it then let them take their shit behind a tree! Hahaha

[mudski]

I just take a heap of charcoal tablets a day before my camping adventure and just eat plenty of meat. Lol.

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[Cuppa]

A cautionary follow up tale to my previous posts suggesting the use of napisan type products.

We had a porta potti in the bus, but that was some time ago now.

This past weekend we ‘christened’ our new portapotti over a few days.
We used the previous method of one spoonful of napisan type product per ‘deposit’.

Today we had a one hour drive to get home, but prior to packing up made a couple of fresh deposits
.
Not remembering how long it took for everything to become liquid & being a tad concerned that the one hour drive home may not be sufficient I decided to throw in a few extra spoonfuls.

Back home approximately 4 hours after the last deposit & just prior to emptying I thought it a good idea to pull out the slide out to inspect the contents just to ensure I wasn’t going to have a blockage problem. (It had all liquified).

BIG MISTAKE! You know what happens when you shake up a can of beer & then open it wit your face over it?

Well what else could my wife do other than cackle & call me Sh*tface!!!

At least it didn’t stink!