Summer is fast drawing to a close here, or so it feels. My friends that I was planning on going camping nude in the bush with are heading off overseas in a few weeks for a month long amazing holiday and by the time they get back, the weather may not be conducive to running around in the bush nude.
I am thinking it may be time to take myself off to a place called River Island Naturist Retreat a couple of hours drive from Sydney. They have cabins and powered camp sites there but I am going to go and pitch a tent near the river somewhere. The other option is head off and find a quiet spot in the bush with a mate that is also keen to come along. I’d love to find somewhere out of the way where we can be nude for a weekend and possibly even coat ourselves in cool mud like these guys and girls have done. Why? Who knows, but I say why not? I think it could make for some amazing photographs too.
I hope you all had a wonderful christmas. Santa was very good to me this year. I never have any ideas for xmas presents so sometimes my family, trying their best do get it a bit wrong, but who can blame them when I can’t tell them what I want. This year I gave them some ideas and they did really well.
I am now the owner of a tent and self inflating camp mattress and a couple of other bits and pieces so definitely aiming to find somewhere out in the bush to camp, preferably naked with my mates. We’ve been given a couple of leads from people I’ve spoken to on suitable places.
Today I’m off to my parents for the night to catch up with some family friends and hopefully a school friend or two.
I’ve just got back from a night’s camping on Cockatoo Island in Sydney harbour. It was, I think, the coldest night so far this year. Thankfully the tents were very nice and sturdy and warm inside, but outside earlier in the evening was bloody cold. The fact that my shoes were wet and therefore so were my socks and feet, really didn’t help.
I’ve spoken here before about my desires to go camping, out in the bush, relaxing in the wild, just like the ScenicBoys Dusty and Garet do. Well, this weekend I’m going camping, but I’m hardly going to be in the wild. For Christmas my mother gave my father, myself, my brother-in-law and my nephew a night’s camping on Cockatoo Island on Sydney Harbour. It’s going to be great fun. Camping? Yes. Roughing it? No… The tents are permanent, there is a cafe and I dare say we’ll be having some wine while we watch the sunset.
In the past I’ve very much been guilty of being a “gonna”, that is I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna do that. This cold weather that we are having reminded me of a statement I think I made last winter that I was going to get out and explore nature and go camping and be naked in nature more often. I read the Scenic Boys blog and see how relaxing it is to get out of the city but never seem to do it myself.
Just looking at these photos reminds me that I need to do that. I’m guilty of getting “stuck” in my routine and the city.
After watching the Scenic Boys latest video of another camping excursion I really want to get out into nature. The break on Fraser Island was a little tease of how nice it is. I would love to go camping and rough it and just breathe in the fresh air and sounds of nature with a few mates. I’m going to have to do some research on places that it might be possible to get out of the way, not run into other people and enjoy it.
The idea of a camping ground isn’t really my thing at the moment. A secluded place, out in the bush, with a nice river or creek to skinnydip and bathe in would be ideal. There are a few issues, like me not owning a tent or camping equipment at all, but those are easily overcome.
After watching the Scenic boys videos for a while now I’ve been thinking more and more of camping out in the wilds and getting back to nature. A friend asked me to go camping and canoing this weekend but I couldn’t make it sadly.
It’s literally been over 20 years since I’ve been camping and it’s time. I want to rough it properly, none of this “camping” in a cabin with hot and cold running water. I’d love to find somewhere off the beaten track, by a river or a lake somewhere. Any suggestions?
