With Easter just around the corner It’s about time to start packing for your camping trip away. I find the first key to having a good time at camp, is having the right gear. So, in this article I’ll run through so of my personal top favorite pieces of camping gear and why.

I love staying up late at night and telling stories around the campfire. So having a cheeky little sleep in at camp is one of my favorite things to do. Although when the sun comes up, without the protection of thick insulated walls like at home, my roof top tent soon becomes quite toasty. That’s why a 2 In 1 Fan is one of my favourite pieces of camping gear. Hanging from the ceiling I simply flick it on in the morning and drift off back to sleep. Even on those mid summer, roasting hot nights the tent fan is enough airflow to send me off to sleep. Plus, the light feature is super handy for ruffling through your bag or getting changed. The hardest thing at camp is looking for your torch, how often have you thought to yourself I need a torch to find my torch. Well with a battery powered fan light conveniently hanging from the ceiling, you always know where to find it. Plus, the fact is has a birds eye projection it can easily illuminate your swag, tent or roof top tent.

An Aluminium Roll Up Table is the ideal traveller’s table. The Aluminium construction not only makes it incredibly durable but also extremely light weight. Which is a huge plus over tradition heavy folding trestle tables. The fact the legs fold into themselves and the table top rolls up means the portable camping table has the ability to compact into an extremely portable size. So, you can easily have an Aluminium Roll Up Table permanently stored in your vehicle so your always have a handy table at the ready. 

Rooftop Tents are a top notch way to bring both simplicity and luxury to camp. One of my personally favourite parts of a car rooftop tent over a traditional tent is that you can lock all your bedding inside. So rather than having multiple separate bags for your tent, bedding and mattress you can just have them in one fully self-contained location. The next huge plus of a vehicle roof top tent is they can literally be setup by one person in seconds. All you have to do is un pop the latches and push the roof up and away you go. This is a huge plus when you’ve had a be day traveling, the ability to pull up and be ready to hit the hay, in seconds is a true blessing. 

To best match your roof top tent why not also have access to quick and easy shelter in seconds too, well with a car awning you most certainly can. Rolling up into a convenient PVC travel bag a vehicle awing can sit neatly on the side of your roof cage, platform or set of racks. With their simple design a camping awning can also be setup by one person. In a matter of minutes, you could have an awning completely setup and pegged out ready to offer you premium shelter at camp. To up your shelter the awnings offered at 4WD Supercentre offer the optional ability to feature awing walls. Especially coming into Easter time with packed campgrounds, car awning walls are a great way to offer you a little more privacy at camp. Not only that but vehicle awning walls are a great way to battle that low lying harsh morning sun. Lastly but certainly not least awing walls offer great protection against windy sideways rain.

Personally, I love the versatility of having both a car awning and a portable gazebo whilst at camp. Although not as fast as an awning, travel gazebos are super easy to setup. Although where a transportable gazebo exceeds over a vehicle awning is the amount of coverage they can offer. Portable gazebos come in many different sizes, some reaching as large as a whopping 6 x 3 meters. So, unlike a car awning a travel gazebo could shelter multiple families at camp, all under the one convenient roof.  The best thing I like about having both a vehicle awning and a transportable gazebo whilst at camp, is the fact I can leave my camp kitchen completely setup up under the gazebo, whilst I take my 4WD off on an adventure for the day. This is super convenient as is minimises unnecessary packing and unpacking. Plus, I love the fact it’s also a great way to let people know someone is in fact camping there and therefore it helps reserves my ideal spot at the camp ground.

To complete my car awning and portable gazebo setup I love throwing down a quality mesh floor. I love the feeling of sand and the cold dirt at night between my toes but one thing I can’t is stand is dirt or sand in my roof top tent whilst I’m trying to drift of to sleep. Hence why I hold a mesh floor as an essential piece of camping gear as a mesh floor helps prevent you tracking sand and dirt into your swag or roof top tent.

With so many pieces of camping gear available, it’s easy to find the right gear for your needs. So I hope my article works as a helpful guide for you to find out which pieces of camping gear will soon be in your top favourite. So get out there today and pick yourself up some quality gear, so you can be ready for your awesome Easter camping adventure.