Thread: Camping

Great idea. I love camping, but my knees are too stuffed to do walk in walk out stuff. I go to Deep Creek national park as often as I can; which isn't as often as I'd like to lately. Here's a couple of pictures of my 'luxury' camping trip last year at Deep Creek and a 'walk in walk out' trip at Deep Creek from back in '05...

The first photo shows my table set up to write a letter to Mick and Nathan (from memory) from this site using a dip pen. Yes, I know it's odd to take a dip pen camping.

The second photo shows my shaving gear from the same trip. Proraso is great for straight shaving while camping as you can use the lid as a bowl.

The third photo shows my tent (the light green one) and my son's tent (the larger). My tent is a two man tent but effectively a one man tent; it's nice to be able to fit your pack in the tent; and you can't do that with a true one man tent. My son now has a tent the same size as mine. You can put it up really quickly but it packs up small and it's still large enough to get changed in and sit up in. In this photo the spot was on a hill overlooking the view to Kangaroo island. There was no-one else there and in fact almost no-one else in the park. The great thing about Deep Creek is that in winter you can have 45 square kilometers of native Australian bush to yourself, and so accommodate romantic ideas of escaping there (with long bow, AK47 and knife) to live as a hunter/gatherer when (not if) the zombie apocalypse scenario strikes.

Oh, yes, I agree. It's also odd to take a vintage tea cup and 'mocca pot' for brewing fresh coffee camping, but it's the small things that are important and need explaining (see here).