Steamtent Co-op at the 2024 Bushmoot

Spent a couple of weeks camping at the Bushmoot with about 90 or so tubular lanterns.

Posted the full report on the groups web site here if you are interested.

The Steam Tent Co-operative at The Bushmoot 2024

 

Thanks Wayward, I enjoyed going through your report very much.
Everyone certainly puts a lot of effort into their setup.

 

Thanks for the photos, a nice setting and a good collection of lanterns/lamps. Have camped on occassion with a Dietz Blizzard and a Dietz Junior. Quite enough light for a simple campsite.

On some bushwalking camps in remote areas take nothing else but a Bushlite candle lamp. At a pitch dark enviroment its surprising how eyes adjust to the soft light from a candle lamp.

The shy bush creatures do not seem to mind the soft light of the candle and campfire. Surprising what comes out at night.

A cave camp with a couple of candle lamps.

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I do go lightweight camping occasionally too, the Steamtent camps are very different to the bushcraft camping I grew up with.

The idea rose out of my background in re-enactment / living history and a way to put many of the wonderful antiques that I had collected over the years back into use.

 

Whups, something digital went wrong with my photo, here it is.

 

This was a winter camp in Arctic Finland last year.

You will note the generic candle lantern hung in the tree top right.



2023 Expedition - Kittilä - Part One

 

A place where hurricane lamps rule.
The presence of a single pressure lamp in operation there would have spoiled it all

 

Indeed. While I can still admire the power and brightness of a pressure lantern, for atmosphere we find tubular lanterns far easier on the eye.

 

@Wayland Lovely photo of the Finnish campsite, here we just don't have such icy places except in the Snowy Mountains.

Athough the cave site is in a high place and have camped there with some snow falling.

Yes much as I love the hiss of the pressure lamp there is something about the ambiance of a wick or candle lantern at a remote campsite.

 

I think it is the fact that they leave more of your night vision intact because they are not a s blindingly white.

( Rhodopsin is quickly bleached by bright light. )