Kara Froggatt
Hi, I’m Kara,
I live in a small patch of Paradise on a mountain called Springbrook behind the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
I was born in New Zealand and starting my camping career with tents in the back yard and then graduated to weekend hiking trips and school camps. I’ve always loved the outdoors. School holidays were spent camping in National Parks, swimming in rivers and exploring the world on my bike. And then came the big Overseas Experience where I backpacked through Asia for a year – by myself. A fantastic experience with so many adventures!
In more recent times, I’ve given up the two person tent that I shared with the dog for a decade of camping in the back blocks of Queensland, for slightly more sedate and comfortable camping experiences now that I’m older. It’s not that we don’t break out the tent anymore, it’s just not as often. As you get older you can leave the heroics to the young ‘un’s and stay in a cabin without a single dent in your ego!
These days we tend to go camping with little people or even overseas visitors who have all appreciated not being too close to Mother Nature’s more scary inhabitants like leeches, crocodiles and spiders. I still love being off grid and waking up to the kookaburras laughing and going to sleep with the sounds of something snuffling in the bushes.
I’ve done many things and now that I’m semi-retired, I have the time to share my experiences and hopefully help more people have a wonderful time camping, hiking and being in the great outdoors, no matter where you are.
Happy camping – Kara 🙂
