We've just returned from a jolly old camping trip with the Grandkids in Wharfedale.
I've realized that there aren't really many toys associated with camping are there.
As a kid I had a survival adventure set from Thomas Salter - binoculars, water flask, etc - shown here in my old catalogue bottom right.
- which the Grandson had a sort of modern version with him this time. His camo tarp came in handy as a makeshift awning!
Not so PC now would be the camping knife I had in a sheath back in the late Sixties. It had a bone handle or maybe green and silver striped. There may have been a compass on top. It's as murky as a Mozzy net.
I did have an Action Man tent. I recall it had a green plastic frame and a green canvas for the fighting fella to rest up in. It was great fun setting it up in the garden.
The superb Action Man HQ has fab photos of the 1973 tent.
https://share.google/isRCvArYTKBkiHRYg
Major Matt had a blow-up lunar bivouac too. Callisto was always a waking in first and Captain Lazer's legs would have stuck out for sure!
Did you have any camping toys or adventure gear?
