FIRST NIGHT OUT
Life is full of memorable firsts
First steps. First words. First day of school. First Kiss. First date. First love.
For many of us there’s another, potentially life-changing first.
First Night Out. Immersed in nature, far from civilisation in a remote bush campground, life stripped back to its basics, falling back into step with the rhythms of the natural world.
Many of us can trace our love affair with the great outdoors to some early camping experience. Discovering the simple pleasures of staring into a campfire, or bush TV as it’s sometimes known. How much better food tastes when cooked and consumed under a star-filled sky.
Photo: Wade Carmichael & family
First Night Out can also be a recognisance, with a new camp setup, refining your camping act to perfection, adding elements of comfort and convenience, ditching what’s unnecessary, enjoying the ease of being able to simply pack, stack and go. Or it can be a new location, discovering the special charms of varied environments, breaking old patterns, leaving the coast to head inland, discovering a new National Park or wilderness frontier.
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For a new couple or a young family already enamoured with an outdoor lifestyle, that first camping trip in these new relationships can be transcendent, offering a touchstone of contentment and simplicity that calls us back again and again – a north star to guide us, a glue that binds us through life’s challenges.
Photo: Ellie Brookes & family