Our bush camp

On the weekend Mr T wanted to make a bush camp in the yard.
First we found heaps of stick and vines and hunted around for a good spot to build.

It started to come together.

hen we got heaps of leaffy branches that P was pruning off some trees and tied them on the sides with more vines.

The finished shelter!
It turned out pretty well, just after we finished it started raining so we got to test it out for weather-proofness.

Later he did some tree climbing.

This boy just doesn't like to sit still!

And Tui is now big enough to fit in the small harness so she had a swing on the veranda too!

Peace has been teaching the kids lots of survival skills lately. He loves doing anything outdoorsy and so do the children. They can all light fires with just a flint and have also done it the way where you twirl a stick until you get embers. That way takes such a long time and a lot of patience and I was surprised that they kept going.

Two days ago they set up a water trap. It's a big hole that you line with leaves etc (you can even pee in it. Which Mr T did with glee). Peace placed a jar in the middle of the hole then they covered the hole with a sheet of plastic. Over night or a couple of days the moisture evaporates out of the leaves and soil hits the plastic and condenses and drips into the jar.

They uncovered the hole today.

Mr T was so proud that they had 'made' water.

Beautiful fresh water, out of leaves and pee...good enough to drink!

In the background you can see how the veggie garden is flourishing. I'm might have to do a post soon on 101 ways to cook zucchinis!