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  • Best winter campfire cooking 🔥🏕️ 🔥
    • 10/07/2023

    Best winter campfire cooking 🔥🏕️ 🔥

    Join me beside the lake on a winter evening while I set up a tarp for shelter then cook a meal on an open sided fire pit.

  • My best hammock camp with rain fly 🌲🏕️🌲
    • 10/07/2023

    My best hammock camp with rain fly 🌲🏕️🌲

    Join me for my first hammock and tarp camp deep in a beautiful rain forest. Watch as I figure out how to set up the rain fly and hammock, relaxing at the campsite, cooking good camp food and exploring nature near the campsite. So many swing bridges to cross, all of them different to the last.🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • Hardest waterfall hike 🌲🏕🌲 unplanned camp on mountain
    • 10/07/2023

    Hardest waterfall hike 🌲🏕🌲 unplanned camp on mountain

    Searching for waterfalls on a track that was open but not yet cleared after the cyclone. Most difficult waterfall hike, I was caught out by night falling and had to set up camp deep in the forest, an unexpected camp on a mountain.

  • Busting Camping Myths - Solo Camping  🌲🏕🌲
    • 10/07/2023

    Busting Camping Myths - Solo Camping 🌲🏕🌲

    Busting camping myths, solo camping. I am often asked if I get scared camping alone, am I scared of wild animals, reptiles or worse while I’m camping.

  • My SOLO CAMP beside the stream  ☀️🌲🏕🌲☀️ Relaxing at the tent
    • 10/07/2023

    My SOLO CAMP beside the stream ☀️🌲🏕🌲☀️ Relaxing at the tent

    Relaxing camp beside the stream, setting up the tent, relaxing in the tent, preparing camp food, eating paleo camp food, realising I’d left my spoon behind so eating with my fingers !.🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • My relaxing camp at the beach  ☀️🏝️🏕🏝️☀️ Sleep in a cosy tent #camping #solofemalecamping
    • 10/07/2023

    My relaxing camp at the beach ☀️🏝️🏕🏝️☀️ Sleep in a cosy tent #camping #solofemalecamping

    Relaxing camp beside the beach, setting up the tent, relaxing in the tent, cooking campfire food, eating paleo camp food, exploring the beautiful Otautu coast and historic Otautu reserve.☀️🏝️🏕🏝️☀️

  • Solo camp in a cave! 👻👻👻 My scary solo camp 🏕️
    • 10/07/2023

    Solo camp in a cave! 👻👻👻 My scary solo camp 🏕️

    Spooky solo camping in an underground cave, exploring the cave and underground streams, challenging myself in the dark with nothing but the sound of the stream for distraction, wishing I’d brought a better head torch with me 👻👻👻

  • Solo camping in a secret valley 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Solo camping in a secret valley 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳

    Solo camping in a beautiful secret valley, setting up the tent, relaxing in the tent, cooking campfire food, eating paleo camp food.🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • My simple camp in the forest 🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    My simple camp in the forest 🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Solo camping in a beautiful forest, setting up the tent, relaxing in the tent.🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • I discovered a stunning waterfall at my camp   🥾 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳 🥾
    • 10/07/2023

    I discovered a stunning waterfall at my camp 🥾 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳 🥾

    The Tarawera Falls are spectacular with the water surging straight out of fissures high in a cliff face. The bluff was formed by a massive lava flow!

  • Camp and swim in cold lake 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Camp and swim in cold lake 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳

    Solo camping at a beautiful lake, setting up the tent, relaxing in the tent, cooking good camp food. Swimming in the cold lake, exploring nature near the campsite. 🌳 🌲🏕🌲🌳

  • My hardest night in a tent!   🥾 🌲🏕🌲 🥾 Umukarikari Track, Kaimanawa Forest
    • 10/07/2023

    My hardest night in a tent! 🥾 🌲🏕🌲 🥾 Umukarikari Track, Kaimanawa Forest

    The Umukarikari Track is more of an off the beaten track than my other recent walks. Come along with me for an epic two day, camping adventure in my tiny tent. I started at the road end on Kaimanawa Road with the plan of walking to the Waipakihi Hut and onwards.

  • Peaceful camp with beautiful birdsong 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Peaceful camp with beautiful birdsong 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳

    A beautiful campsite near the forest. I set up my tent on a hot summer day, listen to the insects and birdsong, prepare my camp food and relax as I enjoy the peace and quiet.🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • Solo camping in my big tent at the lake 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Solo camping in my big tent at the lake 🌳🌲🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my beautiful summer SOLO camp. Preparing a delicious meal of salad vegetables, and chicken and vegetable kebabs for dinner. Cereal, yoghurt, coconut milk and berries for breakfast.

  • SOLO Camp at Beautiful Lake 🌳🌲🏕️🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    SOLO Camp at Beautiful Lake 🌳🌲🏕️🌲🌳

    Solo camping at a beautiful lake, setting up tent in the thunder and rainstorm, relaxing in the tent, cooking good food.🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my rainy weather SOLO camp. Preparing a beautiful meal of salad vegetables and smoked salmon for dinner. Enjoy drinking T2 green tea beside the lake. Relax and unwind as we enjoy a beautiful evening in a tent, camping at the lake. Silent vlog retreat with ASMR camping, sounds of nature.

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    ℹ️Stats

    📅 Date: 07/01/2023

    ☀️Weather: Summer, warm with frequent rain showers and distant thunder

    🌲Location: Whakamaru

    ⛺️ Accommodation: Tent

    🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳 Sounds of camping 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • I camped in every season 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    I camped in every season 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my SOLO camps throughout the year. Summer camp. Autumn camp. Winter camp. Spring camp. This is a compilation of my favourite solo camps from throughout the year.

    Relax and unwind as we enjoy a beautiful New Zealand camping experience in some of the most unique sites in the country. Sounds of camping, sounds of nature. Set to a musical score

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    🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳 Sounds of camping 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • Solo camping in the forest, listening to bird song 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Solo camping in the forest, listening to bird song 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my rainy weather SOLO camp. Cook a simple meal of rice and vegetables for dinner. Enjoy drinking green tea beneath the forest canopy. Relax and unwind as we enjoy a beautiful evening in a tent, camping in the forest. Silent vlog retreat with ASMR camping, sounds of nature.

  • Having Christmas in my tent 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Having Christmas in my tent 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my wet weather SOLO camp at Lake Arapuni as I prepare for Christmas. Relax and unwind as we enjoy the sound of raindrops falling on the tent. Silent vlog retreat with ASMR camping, sounds of nature.

  • My tiny tent in a rainstorm 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    My tiny tent in a rainstorm 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Watch as I set up my ultralight hiking tent before the rainstorm begins and only just managing to do it when the thunder starts rolling around above.

  • SOLO camp and listen to waves 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    SOLO camp and listen to waves 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Join me for my relaxing beach camp beside the beautiful beach. Solo camp beside the beach listening to the waves. Sit beside the beach and enjoy the views, relaxing as we look over the bay.

  • SOLO camp and cooking at river 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    SOLO camp and cooking at river 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Join me for my SOLO overnight camp beside the most beautiful river, cook and enjoy fresh salmon and salad for dinner, drink jasmine green tea and peppermint tea, cook bacon and spinach omelette for breakfast.

  • Beautiful camp far from everywhere 🌲🌳🏕🌳🌲
    • 10/07/2023

    Beautiful camp far from everywhere 🌲🌳🏕🌳🌲

    Come along with me for a relaxing walk through spectacular native forest to the Leitchs Hut and Clearing. Stepping across numerous tiny streams and waterfalls, admire the extraordinary moss and fern in the forest and respect the old growth bush.

  • Solo camp at a beautiful lake 🌲🌳🏕🌳🌲
    • 10/07/2023

    Solo camp at a beautiful lake 🌲🌳🏕🌳🌲

    Enjoy this relaxing solo camp beside a beautiful lake with the sounds of bird song, the sound of the river and waterfalls and sounds of camping in the Waikato. Enjoy herbal tea and green tea, prepare and eat a salad sandwich while watching the lake.

  • Relax and recharging with nature, solo camp and bird song 🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Relax and recharging with nature, solo camp and bird song 🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy this relaxing solo camp with the sounds of bird song and sounds of camping in the Waikato. Cook creamy mushroom and roast vegetable soup for dinner and pop corn snack treats.

  • Solo winter camp at beautiful lake🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Solo winter camp at beautiful lake🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my cold weather SOLO camp at beautiful Lake Arapuni. Cook beef and vegetable casserole in camp oven for dinner. Sausages and eggs for breakfast. Enjoy green tea beside the lake.

  • Cold weather SOLO camp at lake 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    Cold weather SOLO camp at lake 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my cold weather SOLO camp at Lake Arapuni. Relax and unwind as we enjoy a beautiful sunset together from our campsite. Silent vlog retreat with ASMR camping, sounds of nature.

  • My mid winter SOLO camp 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    My mid winter SOLO camp 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    My mid winter SOLO camp. Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my mid winter SOLO camp beside a beautiful lake. Sit back and enjoy the relaxing sounds of camping, sounds of nature, rain sounds, lake sounds, bird sounds, ASMR, cooking in a tent, rain on tent.

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    I SOLO camped mid winter on a very rainy night. For dinner I cooked sweetcorn fritters with bacon and tomato, the avocado was a disaster.. Breakfast was porridge with banana, all cooked on the gas camp cooker.

    Highlights

    - Close to Taupo, Rotorua and Hamilton

    - Even closer to Whakamaru

    - Isolated, well distanced campsites

    - Situated beside the beautiful Lake Whakamaru

    - Small boat ramp suited for launching a dinghy or kayak

    - Beautiful forest and views across the lake to the cliffs

    - Waikato River Trail goes past this reserve

    - Explore bush walks and river trails

    - You’ll likely have very few camp neighbours during winter

    - Sounds of nature and sounds of camping

    Lowlights

    - My avocado !

    The Campsite: Dunham Reserve, Whakamaru

    The Dunham Reserve Campsite is located beside Lake Whakamaru. This is a scenic campsite in the South Waikato, it is not the main Whakamaru Reserve but is further East. This campsite provides more shelter than the main Reserve.

    Enjoy the relaxing sounds of camping in nature, sounds of rain on tent, sounds of lake, foggy lake views, nature sounds in forest, relaxing nature sounds, rainforest sounds, reduce stress, camping sounds, ASMR, relax, fall asleep to the sounds of rain on the tent.

    ℹ️Stats

    📅 Date: 09/07/2022 - 10/06/22

    ☀️Weather: Varied, rainy, windy, cold, brief sun ⛈☔️

    🌲Location: Dunham Reserve, Whakamaru, South Waikato

    ⛺️ Accommodation: Tent free, limited to two nights

    🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳 Sounds of camping 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

  • My first SOLO camp in cold weather 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳
    • 10/07/2023

    My first SOLO camp in cold weather 🌲🌳🏕🌲🌳

    My first SOLO camp in COLD weather. Enjoy the sounds of camping with me on my first SOLO camp in cold weather. Sit back and enjoy the relaxing sounds of camping, sounds of nature, rain sounds, river sounds, waterfall sounds, ASMR, cooking in a tent.

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