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Fresh bait and cold beer
How to keep your cool and other bush camping tipsSNEAKY SNAKES
When camping near inland water courses be wary of snakes in the warmer and cooler months. They sleep in and under logs and come out on sun-up to warm up before heading off for their daily meal. At this time they're lethargic and cannot get out of your way as you approach while fishing or checking the yabby pots.
PRE-FREEZE FOOD
Pre-freeze your food supplies at home to lighten the load on your portable fridge compressor when setting out on a camping trip.
GO SQUARE
Use square containers in your camp fridge, freezer or icebox as they stack better and leave more room.
RE-USE CASK BLADDERS
Bladders from wine casks may be washed and filled with drinking water then frozen. Freeze them in a square plastic bucket to make the block easier to stack in the ice box or freezer.
FREEZE WATER TOO
If you leave home for a camp trip and have free space in your fridge/freezer fill with square containers of frozen drinking water. This will keep your fridge working to its best and give you thirst quenching drinking water.
If you leave home for a camp trip and have free space in your fridge/freezer fill with square containers of frozen drinking water. This will keep your fridge working to its best and give you thirst quenching drinking water.
SOURCE BAIT LOCALLY
Arriving at a campsite next to the water without the ideal fishing bait is frustrating. Roll over logs near the water’s edge and you will find worms in the damp mud underneath.
Arriving at a campsite next to the water without the ideal fishing bait is frustrating. Roll over logs near the water’s edge and you will find worms in the damp mud underneath.
SHRIMPS LOVE TEA!
Green tea-tree is a good shrimp catcher. If you find a branch of one blown down in the wind put it in the water for a few hours. Quickly pull it from the water and the shrimp that were amongst the leaves eating the tea-tree oil will flick out onto the creek bank.
FRUIT FOR YABBIES
Yabby and shrimp meat bait is sometimes hard to come by. Blanch a stale potato or use mango, banana or other sweet fruit which will be a good alternative especially for catching red claw yabbies
LEMON FRESHENER
Keep a plastic bottle of lemon essence in your camp box to kill the unpleasant taste you might experience in your drinking water.
FOLLOW THE SHADE
If setting up a camp for a long period of time, spend the first day tracking the sun direction then set up in the cool of the evening to maximise shade and help maintain refrigeration and ice box efficiency.
FOOTNOTE: As you can tell by many of my tips, I do most of my camping up north and detest warm beer!
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Written byRick Huckstepp
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