i've never traveled and camped but each summer we go out camping on the coast around here...the only road "out" of town dead-ends about 30 miles out of town and, at that point, you're driving through mostly coastal rainforest wilderness anyhow...we dont use campgrounds or campsites, we just make our own...usually we go with BIL and his wife and little kids, usually other relatives show up along the way too...we are always out there for at least a few days...
we always take lots of bug spray, sunscreen, tent, chairs, cooler full of food, toys for our son, Raid so you dont have to find and kill the bugs that get into your tent before nighttime, first aid, toilet paper, garbage bags so you dont leave trash behind, etc
BIL always takes his skiff...we always camp directly at the shoreline, right up from high tideline, in the rainforest and we always motor out the skiff to drop crab pots into the ocean...if you're doing any of that, make sure you take the crab bait and stuff (frozen herring bait etc)....one morning i went out with BIL on his skiff to pull up the crab pots and we saw a whale surfacing pretty close to us, the whale's tail was making waves for our skiff, was very cool!
last time we all took the skiff and camped out on a little island all by ourselves (well, us and the group we were with)...spent several days out there sitting in the sun, camping on the beach, fishing on the skiff and crap potting...nothing like freshly caught crab over the campfire!
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