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Mt Arapiles - Camping fee booking changes 1st July 19-Aug-2014 At 8:00:13 AM Wendy

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On 18/08/2014 EleNora wrote:
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>And perhaps they do.
>I was sold the dream of long stay in Arapiles at 2$ a night.

It hasn't been $2 a night for years. I could sell you the dream of it being free too, which it was when I started climbing. Prices have an unfortunate tendency to go up.

If those
>2$ were formerly in use to empty toilets, I'll be ready to dig in a bit
>of shit to stay around for free.

They have a septic truck come and do it. The fees actually go into general revenue and have no direct connection to the park, which is I know, rather crap. But they are going to PV to manage parks somewhere in someway.
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>I'd be really curious to know how much a fine is indeed. And how do they
>collect it? Do they get your ID, ask for your address and send you a little
>envelope?

The fine was $180 last I knew about it and the forementioned law of prices probably applies. But I know it is in fact a massive pain for parks staff to process fines and takes them away from other far more useful work they could be doing. I was actually told it costs them more to process these fines than the fine is worth, so you are actually taking more resources away from the park, which probably explains why they rarely fine people. However, we did get a new ranger a year or 2 ago who was keen as on fining. Plus they could theoretically fine you for every night you didn't pay, which would be quite a lot more than the camping fee.

Araps is now the most sensible camp fee arrangement in PV. Think about a long term stay in the Grampians if you want to worry about your budget for camp fees.