Thread: Camping

I was camping at a primitive campsite in a state park the last couple of days. The campsite is isolated, a four mile hike in or one mile boat ride, plus a .25 mile hike.

Canoe afte unloading


Fire pit: someone left a gentlemanly gift.
Okay, corny joke. The whiskey is a Jack Danilels product called Gentleman Jack and it was sitting at the campsite when we arrived.


my tent

Monday's lunch: Thuringer-style sausage and smoked cheese


Preparing a coal bed to grill the steaks

Now that looks like fun,,,, we are going to make a small trip out into the Everglades in November,,,, a little too hot right now for fun.

Honestly, it was a little too hot here (not Florida hot, though). I think it hit 92F yesterday and it was fairly humid. We fished yesterday evening and then swam off the floating docks before heading back to camp and cook dinner.

Ill try to get and post pics of the steaks. My buddy took those pics. We both e had two one pound steaks apiece.

For the first time EVER i am taking two weeks vacation back to back, first week is mine alone and I have considered doing some sort of camping. Thinking it would be cool to take the boat, tent, and a few items like a firestarter and axe and just enjoy some time out in the woods & fishing. Second week I will be visiting the panhandle of Florida with my wife...looking forward to white sand beaches & the sweet song of the ocean.

Glad I saw this thread. Camping is one of my favourite pastimes and I usually go once or twice a year.

Earlier this year I took my son on a 4 day hike/camp with friends in the Drakensberg mountain range. Average approx 2600m asl, with one or two of the high points above 3200m.

In November a group of us normally go and ride a MTB race in an area called Magoebaskloof (a forestry area in the Wolkberg mountain range), camp for the weekend, drink beer and barbecue.

Here's a picture from 2 years ago.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

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That looks like a MASSIVE canoe! What is it with you guys? Massive cities, massive buildings, massive pickup trucks, massive canoes...

That's a nice looking spot, looks a lot like Deep Creek :-)

Hopefully I'm off to The Grampians in a few weeks time to camp and climb. It'll be my first time there. Looking back on this thread reminds me of how much I miss camping!

I wonder what the guy (climbing buddy) I'm going with will think when I pull out my straight razor, shaving cream and strop to shave, followed by a nice cup of freshly brewed coffee made in my little mocca pot drank from a china tea cup before setting in to write a letter with me dip pen? 'pparantly he doesn't even bathe when camping.... Heathen!

Thug, nice photo. I would really like to see Table Mountain and the Drakensberg mountains some day.

Carl, the canoe is 17 feet long. It's a general purpose, flat-water canoe. You really need a bigger canoe for hauling the amount of gear we carry. On a small, swift river it's a little too slow to respond.

I've been planning to bring my shaving gear camping. Perhaps this year's the year.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Thug, nice photo. I would really like to see Table Mountain and the Drakensberg mountains some day.

Thanks. The Drakensberg is a truly majestic and unspoilt area.

I did a trail run in the Drakensberg in May - 38km with approx 1800 ascent. Its was a circular route from Mnweni Cultural Centre up the Mnweni Pass, onto the escarpment and then down Rockeries Pass back to the Cultural Centre

The first picture is just starting the climb and the last is from where we are about to descend.

What has this to do with camping? We camped at the Cultural Centre.