Camp Lighting

When camping, you have a large backyard and it can be difficult to find your way around at night due to the lack of illumination. This can be changed by stringing up some portable, battery powered, remote controlled lights high above, between trees. This is an especially useful way to light up the path to the long-drop (Rest room).

Having a soft yellow light strung over where your group is having a campfire is also useful as it means people don't need to use other lights when preparing a meal at night. This prevents having a light accidently shone into your face.

A pack of 3 remote controlled lights

Roll of Builders line

Tape

Dog thrower arm and ball

Self-taping screw

• Select a couple of tallish trees you wish to string the lights between.
• Having predrilled a hole in the dog thrower ball, screw in a self-taping screw and attach one end of the builder's line.
• Lay out a good length of Builders line in a zigzag fashion in front of the tree you want to throw the line over.
• Place the ball with line attached into the dog thrower arm.
• Throw it over the tree.
• The weight of the ball should pull the line down to the other side.
• Pull the line over to the end tree and throw it over in the same way.
• Secure the end of the line from the first tree to its base.

With the line strung between the two trees but lying on the ground, attach lights to the line. I used painters' tape but clear packing tape would also work.

Pull the line up to its full height and secure to the base of the second tree.

When dark, turn the lights on using the remote control.

The bright white lights strung up between the two trees did a good job in illustrating the camp-site. Maybe too much so, as a warmer light would be nicer than a bright white light.

To make the light warmer on the next camping trip 3 layers of orange coloured cellophane was taped over the light. This gave a warmer light.