Camping Tips - updated

All,

 

For those who are first time campers, I just want to share my camping tips with you...

 

1. Be a well-planned camper: Make sure you bring all items you've planned for camping. Create your checklist if necessary. You could refer to my camping checklist. We printout our checklist and go through it every time we go camping. Guess what... we do catch things we miss in our final check before leaving our house.

 

Our check list is in:  http://kkdd.ca/  => More => Cheat Sheets => Camping Cheat Sheet

 

2. How to pack food in your cooler/ice box: 

• Process your food before camping: Slice meat, and marinate it.
• Freeze your processed meat. So that you could keep it for 36 hours, if well kept. Monitor your cooler, you may need to buy ice from the campground store.
• Freeze a few bottles of your bottle water. When the ice melt, the bottle water will serve as your cold drink in hot summer day!!!  Don't limit yourself to bottle water. You can freeze your favorite beverage too.
• Pack them on your cooler just minutes before leaving your home.
• Always, freeze meat and iced bottle in the bottom, eggs, veggie, etc on the top of cooler.

3. Deal with the chilly night: It is hard to say how the overnight temperature would be now, however, generally the overnight temperature is usually chilly and humid as we are staying outdoor. Be prepare for the tight sleep night!!!  On top of your sleeping bag, bring enough warm clothing for the night. Please be aware that most heat loss is through head and feet. I usually put on a pair of sock before getting sleep, with my warmer hat on my side.

 

Pengfei/Lingzhen, we have "sleeping bag" for Anya, if you haven't had one. It is a comfortable winter cloth with a bag attach to it. Cobcob used it when he was 5 months old in our last year camping. (Note: Good until 12 months)

 

 

4. Deal with mosquitoes. (anyway, I don't attract too many mosquitoes ^_^, I only do the blue part.)

• Use Bug Off. (Personally, I hate chemical on my body, so I seldom use it. )  Another tip, if you have an expired Bug Off, don't throw it away. Instead of spraying it on your body, you can still spray it on objects, like table, chairs, etc, around your campsite.
• Wear bright colour clothing. Don't wear dark shirt!  Otherwise you will attract more bugs to you.
• Eat more garlic.
• If you have mosquitoes coils, or citronella candles, bring them.
• Campfire. This is the most effective way at dusk.
• Light up your torch. Torch will light up our campsite as well as attract mosquitoes away from us. Nehemiah Fellowship bought their torches in their past camping trip and stores them in OMAC store room next to Xiao Xiong's office. We can borrow a few from them. I have the fuel for the torch. Another tip: You can also buy the citronella candle torch from Dollarama for only $1. I've used it before, it is good for quite a few hours.

 

Hope it helps... :-)

 

Love in Christ,

Jianguang