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Nick Weston was selected as the resident survival expert for Shipwrecked 2008, based in the Cook Islands. He is a professionally trained chef, grows his own vegetables and often visits the country to source some wild food. Nick fills his blog, Hunter-Gathering: wild & fresh food with his passion for all things food related.

Wild Camping

When you think about it, man isn’t designed to live in a house, certainly not the houses we live in today, perfectly flat floors feel weird beneath the toes: our feet our able to bend and flex in conjunction with the terrain we walk upon, or is that just me? Camping has become huge over the last few years…massive, enormous and humungous, so much so that it has diversified into categories:

Wild Camping

Wild Camping / Photo by Nick Weston

Glamping: hunter wellies and short shorts, yurts, tipis, gigantic gas ranges, slick fire pits, shitters with a view to die for and a heftus price tag to boot- strictly for media types, Cotswolders, Chelsea wenches and people with money to burn looking for a “wild” experience. Having said that, if you are going to pimp it up in the great outdoors, this is mutt’s nuts and I should now…I teach foraging at just such a place (wouldn’t mind living there actually!). Foie gras for starters followed by chateaubriand on the barbie and a few bottles of Petrus 2005…darling.

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