Dodging the wildlife is a problem only if you travel around sunrise/sunset...
Not a prob for us... we're camped well before sundown/have a late-ish start of a morn.

As far as camping close to your neighbour (that's a '
neighbor' to you, Mr Grizz

), we had a funny experience at a roadside rest area en route from Adelaide to Alice Springs.
Pulled in, two other caravans, side-by-side. We set up about 50~75 metres away from them to have a little quiet-time.
Just on sunset a wizz-bang ('
campervan', Mr Grizz) pulls in and parks practically under our awning!
I strolled over (didn't take long

) and said 'hello' to the driver, who had a very strong German accent to his English.
The conversation went like this:
'You've probably noticed by now, this is a pretty big country.'
'Yah, ve haf.'
'Yair, well, we'd like our share of it.'
[Puzzled look on driver's face]
'You might need to crowd together where you come from, mate, but in this country we don't park so close to our neighbours.'
'Oh, you vant I shoult move?'
'That's a good idea, sport. Over there, near the caravans.'
So he drove over and parked 2 metres off the vans.
