When heading out camping there are a handful of hacks that can turn your campsite from a shamble to an easy and organized setup which can make you look like a pro in no time!

So pay attention and buckle in for some campsite hacks that will knock your socks off and bowl you out for six (no tampering needed)!

HACK #1 – Eat like a King!

To speed up your cooking time at camp and fill your tum, with tasty bush tucker, try pre-preparing all of your meals at home, and sealing them in a vacuum sealed package, using the Adventure Kings Vacuum Sealer. Not only does the Adventure Kings Vacuum sealer seal in all the freshness and flavor of your favorite meals, it makes reheating meals on the tracks extremely easy and quick.

The sealed pouch also makes keeping food fresh in the bottom of your ice box easier being fully sealed, your meat won’t get soggy.

To heat your dinner simply boil some water and place the vacuum sealed pouch in for a few minutes, and you are done, it’s as simple as that.

HACK #2 – Chill out

This hack is to help you get more value for money out of your ice inside your Adventure Kings Icebox.
To make your Ice last longer, it pays to use larger blocks of ice, we usually pre-freeze 1.25L bottles filled with water, don’t forget to leave room for the ice to expand. This also stops your ice from pooling in the bottom of your Icebox, meaning you won’t have to go fishing through ice water for you’re the rest of the submarine snags, or the last couple of drinks.

If you forgot to pre-freeze some water bottles, and absolutely have to buy your ice from the servo, you can make it last a lot longer if you don’t break down your ice bags. By keeping the ice in the bag mostly solid, it has less surface area which will allow it to stay cold for longer!

HACK #3 – Double up and share the warmth

This hack is for keeping warm through those the long cold nights. By grabbing a Left and right hand zippered Adventure Kings Premium Winter/Summer Sleeping Bag, you and your partner can unzip and then reconnect your two bags zippers together, creating a cozy warm, double sleeping bag. Allowing for sharing warmth and feeling less restricted than sleeping in 2 separate bags.

Another way to add warmth, particularly when camping in snow, is to add one of the foil “thermal blankets” you can find in many first aid kits, underneath your swag mattress, this will add a layer of extra insulation without making noisy crinkling sounds throughout the night.

HACK #4 – Keep the insects away!

This is an old trick that goes back many generations.

When you are set up at camp and the insects are starting to bite, but you forgot your insect repellants and citronella candle, you have probably reserved yourself to being eaten alive.

An excellent way to protect yourself is to make use of animal poo specifically the grassy kind left behind by kangaroos and wombats. This grassy poo is a natural insect repellant, and by adding it to your fireplace, whether your firepit is a hole in the ground or a portable camp oven like the Adventure Kings Camp Oven/Stove, it emits more smoke than a normal fire, and the sweet smell naturally repels the blood-sucking insects that can make camping an itchy mess.

The other alternative is to burn green leaves like tea tree or eucalypt to produce more smoke, to protect your campsite from all flying insects!

You can thank us for this one later!

HACK #5 – Save the nectar of the gods!

There is nothing more frightening than losing your booze on the trail, it’s less of a sin when you are drinking beers or ciders, as you usually have plenty more, but a bottle of wine or spirits cracked on the tracks might result in some bitter passengers at camp.

There are a few good tricks to saving your glass bottles when you hit the tracks, but if your drinks are available in cans, that’d be our first suggestion, sometimes due to flavour and preference glass is sometimes unavoidable.

So to save your drinks when you are hitting the tracks, we usually stash our alcohol in our clothing bag to cushion the bottles from colliding, if you want your beers and wine to be icy cold when you get to camp, you can wrap at least one turn of electrical tape around beer bottles and a few more bands of tape around bottles of spirits and wines this will help to cushion the glass inside your Adventure Kings 60L Fridge/Freezer, preventing the dreaded crunch, on large drop-off’s or through rough corrugation sections.

With all your drinks saved, you can enjoy them at camp in moderation!