When you are just starting out going camping, there are many pitfalls that people fall into through lack of experience.

These are just a few helpful tips for getting more from your campsite and preventing some of the trip ruining mistakes many beginners make!
1.Open Camp Fire

There is a fantastic ideal, that is spread by Hollywood and TV that when you set up camp you will be able to kick back beside an open fire where you can cook dinner and roast marshmallows. This unfortunately is not the case in many places across Australia at different times of the year, as it stands we live in a harsh and dry country, where our climate can change from drought to flood in a matter of hours, where the risk of starting an out of control bushfire can be extremely high, particularly in the summer months.

For this reason, it is very important for people to keep an eye on the fire danger risks in the area you are heading too, and make sure that you are abiding by the restrictions set out by the local Rural Fire Brigade service as to what is an acceptable way of cooking and heating.

There are many alternative ways you can use fire at camp, that can help to prevent unnecessary fires, such as the Adventure Kings Camp oven/Stove a self-contained fireplace with an adjustable flue. Offering a perfect place to cook food and get the smoke out of your eyes, you will even be able to use it in many caravan parks and parkland areas!

Adventure Kings also offer a range of gas cooking appliances including a Portable Gas BBQ that are often permitted in high fire danger areas!

 2.Lack of Research

When you are getting ready for your trip, it is important to make sure you know exactly where you are going, and what facilities are there, there is no point going unprepared to a campsite, getting lost along the way, and finding out that the toilets you thought were there, haven’t been built yet or haven’t been maintained in years and are non-functioning.

There are a few ways to research effectively, by using google, or even using one of the best value off road navigators available, the VMS Touring 700HDX to navigate both on and off road, with turn by turn navigation directions.

3.Not testing your campsite setup

There is nothing worse than when you get to camp and you go to setup everything, but you forget how things go together, or you unroll your brand new Big Daddy Deluxe Swag, but realize you have left the poles and pegs, in the box at home if this happens to you, you are going to be okay, but you may not have a fun time trying to find a way to erect your swag and hold it down in place using sticks if the weather starts to turn!

Another reason to test your campsite systems before leaving home is to make sure that you have everything you need for self-sufficiency. For an example if you set up your campsite and you find that your vehicles cigarette lighter isn’t working, you may have to work out another way to make your 12v fridge operate from your vehicles battery, whilst you are setup at camp!
Being able to iron out all of the kinks of your setup will make setting up camp a lot faster, easier, and give you the ability to kick back on a Kings Throne Camp Chair with an icy cold beer and enjoy the serenity of nature!

4.Campsite lighting

Don’t go back into the dark ages when you head for camp!

By adding a bright and energy efficient LED Camp lighting setup you can make sure you don’t have any mishaps in the dark, like tripping on guy ropes or not being able to find the zipper to get into you Big Daddy Swag!

The quality range of LED Camp lighting found in the Adventure Kings range, allow you to simply connect to your vehicles battery. You can also dim the light output to suit exactly what you need at camp, whether it is mood lighting or just absolutely bright enough to find cold ones in the bottom of your esky!

The range of Adventure Kings LED Lighting is also fully compatible, meaning you can daisy chain multiple lighting units to offer even more bright LED Lighting!

If you follow these steps you will be able to get further offroad for less!