Running a fridge off solar is the single most common 12V question in Australian camping, and it’s also the one surrounded by the most confident-sounding wrong answers. “Just get a 200W panel and she’ll be right” is the kind of advice that works right up until a cloudy week in Victoria, or a 40-degree week… Continue Reading about:- How to Run a Fridge Off Solar in Power & Lighting
A portable gas heater for camping can turn a freezing winter trip from miserable to magical — but it’s also the one piece of camp gear that can kill you if you get it wrong. Carbon monoxide is odourless, colourless, and produced by every gas heater ever made. So let’s be blunt up front: this… Continue Reading about:- Best Portable Gas Heaters for Camping (Safety) in Camp Cooking
Water is the heaviest thing you’ll carry touring — a litre weighs a kilo, and you’ll use more than you think. Run out of fuel and you’re inconvenienced; run out of water in the outback and you’re in danger. Yet most touring setups treat water storage as an afterthought: a couple of jerry cans rattling… Continue Reading about:- Water Storage for Touring in 4WD Touring
If you’re running a dual-battery setup in your 4WD — and if you camp with a fridge, you should be — then the best DC-DC chargers for 4WD camping are the difference between a system that just works and one that slowly murders your auxiliary battery. A DC-DC charger takes the messy, variable voltage coming… Continue Reading about:- Best DC-DC Chargers for 4WD Camping Australia 2026 in Power & Lighting
Camp cooking for families has one golden rule: if the cook is stressed, everyone is stressed. The difference between a trip where meals are the highlight and one where dinner is a nightly crisis isn’t culinary skill — it’s planning. Feed a family of four at camp and you’re running a small restaurant with no… Continue Reading about:- Camp Cooking for Families in Camp Cooking
The swag gets the glory, but the swag mattress does the work. Ask any long-term swag camper what made the difference between loving and hating their setup, and the answer is almost always the mattress — not the canvas, not the poles, the slab of foam (or air) underneath them. Most swags ship with a… Continue Reading about:- Best Swag Mattresses & Toppers in Sleeping Gear
Lithium battery safety for camping is one of those topics most people skip until something goes wrong. A LiFePO4 battery sitting under your 4WD’s bonnet or in the back of your ute looks harmless — sealed box, no acid — so it’s tempting to treat it like a fit-and-forget appliance. But lithium batteries store enormous… Continue Reading about:- Lithium Battery Safety for Camping in Power & Lighting
Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the humble camping chair: it’s the piece of gear you’ll spend more waking hours in than your sleeping bag, your tent, or frankly anything else you own — and it’s the piece most campers spend the least thought on. A bad chair turns every evening around the fire into a… Continue Reading about:- Best Camping Chairs Australia 2026 (Top Picks) in Camp Cooking
Choose wrong and you’ll either be cold, uncomfortable, or lugging unnecessary weight. Choose right and you’ll wonder why you ever slept badly outdoors. The self-inflating mat vs air mat vs foam debate is really three different answers to the same question — what goes between you and the ground — and each wins for different… Continue Reading about:- Self-Inflating vs Air Mat vs Foam in Sleeping Gear
If you’re over 185cm, you’ve done the tent stoop: the hunched shuffle from door to bed, the head brushing the fly, the feet pressing against the end wall, the sleeping bag that’s technically long enough but leaves your shoulders cold. Standard tents are designed around average heights, and tents for tall people need specific numbers… Continue Reading about:- Best Tents for Tall People in Tents & Swags