Oct 08 – Camping on the South Coast
December 5, 2009
This was camping with a difference on the South Coast on Myrtle Beach in the Bateman’s Bay area. Try camping with a kids beach tent (i.e. no front to the tent), cooking spag bog over a homemade fire and being relentlessly attacked by blood sucking mosquitoes all night (yes we forgot the mozzie spray). All of this on the edge of a remote beach with just the sound of crashing waves around us.
This was to be our first of many camping trips away hence at that point we did not have a proper tent or any camping equipment whatsoever. That being said I have to say it was of the best spag bogs I have ever made. Considering this was done chopping up mushrooms in the dark with a failing head torch using an old saucepan with handles that were starting to melt into the fire, Graeme was highly impressed with my excellent effort! Needless to say that saucepan has been relegated to the camping equipment only use since then. I have to admit that food always tastes so much better when being eaten outdoors using the most basic of equipment. I guess there is still a primitive instinct in all of us.
After a sleepless night of being bitten alive wishing we had at least invested in a proper tent, we wandered down to the waters edge to enjoy sunrise in our birthday suits. We admired our surroundings in the emerging light of day and enjoyed paddling on the waters edge. As the sun came up we decided we had better get some swim wear on though as we didn’t want to give anyone a fright on an early morning stroll! Moments later we were lying in the sun when Graeme gave me a nudge. Pointing a way off towards the waters edge was a rather large naked old man. Then we saw another and another. Laughing relentlessly and trying not to look too closely, we went and checked the sign to the beach which we had missed when arriving in darkness the night before. Yes you guessed it…we were camping on a nudist beach!
