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We’ve had requests for a few more photos on our camping set up – so here is a little photo essay for your delectation.
Firstly – our most basic set up (Basic Set Up A), commonly found on an overnight stop, especially when the weather is fine. Note the terracotta flooring on the patio (or at least the coloured shadecloth!) and Tim putting on his matching socks.
Basic Set Up B – when expecting overnight rain, we prop up the little awning on the end window and stick the Drifta under that.
Just a little celebration of the Drifta itself (albeit set up on quite a sloping site). It is quite a heavy thing when all packed up, but the Drifta has been GREAT. If I’d had to do all the cooking on a flimsy camp table, or the tailgate of the trailer, while shuffling through boxes of cooking equipment, I think I would have gone quite mad by now. Love the Drifta.
An active demonstration of cooking (well making a coffee) with the Drifta in Basic Set Up A.
See a typically messy inside of the tent, but demonstrating the ample room for sitting and reading the paper out of the rain (something we’ve had to dodge quite a few times on our trip so far!)
Now we move to an example of a set up for at least a couple of nights – as the awning does require just a little bit more effort to get up and down. Note also the full extent of the Drifta being well used (I think I was making some post surfing pikelets at the time!)
Another variation on a theme – started out as a Basic Set Up B, but when we got stuck here at Adels Grove for an extra couple of nights we put up the awning. And then the rain stopped anyway. Note the raincoats and the fire which was necessary for warmth - in a place that usually advertises the benefit of all these trees for shade in the heat!
And the whole damn shebang – awning with extra mosquito/sandfly netting. This is the only time that we’ve put the whole thing up – the insects were intense here at Leichardt’s Lagoon near Normanton. But then after we’d put this up it rained for an entire night and drove all the insects away!
Firstly – our most basic set up (Basic Set Up A), commonly found on an overnight stop, especially when the weather is fine. Note the terracotta flooring on the patio (or at least the coloured shadecloth!) and Tim putting on his matching socks.
Basic Set Up B – when expecting overnight rain, we prop up the little awning on the end window and stick the Drifta under that.
Just a little celebration of the Drifta itself (albeit set up on quite a sloping site). It is quite a heavy thing when all packed up, but the Drifta has been GREAT. If I’d had to do all the cooking on a flimsy camp table, or the tailgate of the trailer, while shuffling through boxes of cooking equipment, I think I would have gone quite mad by now. Love the Drifta.
An active demonstration of cooking (well making a coffee) with the Drifta in Basic Set Up A.
See a typically messy inside of the tent, but demonstrating the ample room for sitting and reading the paper out of the rain (something we’ve had to dodge quite a few times on our trip so far!)
Now we move to an example of a set up for at least a couple of nights – as the awning does require just a little bit more effort to get up and down. Note also the full extent of the Drifta being well used (I think I was making some post surfing pikelets at the time!)
Another variation on a theme – started out as a Basic Set Up B, but when we got stuck here at Adels Grove for an extra couple of nights we put up the awning. And then the rain stopped anyway. Note the raincoats and the fire which was necessary for warmth - in a place that usually advertises the benefit of all these trees for shade in the heat!
And the whole damn shebang – awning with extra mosquito/sandfly netting. This is the only time that we’ve put the whole thing up – the insects were intense here at Leichardt’s Lagoon near Normanton. But then after we’d put this up it rained for an entire night and drove all the insects away!
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