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Old 27-01-2022, 10:32 PM   #13
MDS69
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Default Re: Advice on camping

Don’t build a trailer just buy someone else’s that have taken the depreciation hit. Keep it basic. If it is hot use a small tent rechargeable fan if it is cold use a hot water bottle. Buy cookware that can be used on a fire, especially to heat water for your hot water bottle. Make sure everything has multiple uses eg shovel to dig a hole for toilet, fire and shovelling coals for cooking, get out of a bog. Tomahawk to chop small bits of firewood and turn over to bang in tent pegs.
Basic stuff is
Tent look for a 6 man tent. You can stand up in it to get changed etc.
Mattress of some description
Sleeping bag
Camp chair
Small camp table
Esky
3m x 3m gazebo
Tarp
Cookware
Plate, bowl cutlery etc
Gas burner cartridge type
Headlamp - gives you 2 hands to eat cook etc
Torch
Shovel
Matches
Water
Jaffle iron
Food

As you get more funds and more experience
Battery box
Fridge
Solar panel
Camp oven
Led lights

Most of the stuff I listed is for bush camping. Some of it you can cull if you are staying in a caravan park.

Keep an eye out on marketplace for people offloading their gear. Some buy all the good stuff and use it once when they realise they don’t like camping after all.
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