Most useful accessory on a bush trip ?

The troopy

"Baby wipes", not really an accessory, but the most useful thing I have ever taken camping..................

The wife, of course.

Baby wipes are .... well...good, but the biggy is my LED headlamp - so damned useful - you have light wherever you go ... good enough to read the paper and the batteries last for bl....dy ages ! So efficient .... so valuable ..... but you have to have one that swivels down for the reading !

What's the most useful accessory I've bought ?

The most recent one:-))

Long handled shovel.

Bottle opener and ear plugs.

A wire hook to pull billies and camp ovens on and off the fire.

Hang on.........I made that :-))

Cheers
Phil

Cask of red!

:-))

satellite phone

A decent 12V air compressor

In no particular order:

Amateur Radio gear.
Chain saw.
The shower.
Tripod and bucket to heat water for the shower.
Big screen house when the flies are out.
Self inflating matress.
My home made loo.

Mike Harding

Leatherman Supatool. Would use it 5 to 50 times a day from opening a can to lifting the billy off the fire.
Cheers Craig.............

The Barbie plate with the fold away legs for me, invaluable I reckon for cooking around the camp fire, usualy sit mine just of the main heat and use it to sit pots frypans etc on while trying to get the timing right when cooking, mine has half mesh so not bad for toast either.

Browny

A pair of Al's heavy duty welding gloves :))

the fridge..its keeps the cray, icecream frozen and makes ice for the amber nectar

There are quite a few expensive items, but in the cheap range the 2 that spring immediately to mind are:

Spring handled camp oven lid lifter from Aussie Disposals, use it for almost everything around the camp fire, lid lifting, billy lifting, lifting hotplate on/off the fire, poking the fire etc.

Bush kettle ...... fantastic!

The light weight stool that doubles as a foot rest so I can sit and drink my glass of red with my feet up while my dinner is cooked for me!!!! LOL. Can also be a drink and snacks table and/or a seat for an extra guest. Carolyn

steel mallet - to slam those pegs hard and fast!

1. GPS
2. Satphone (though hired)
3. Scale ruler
4. Bead breaker

My Suggestion:
The Engel
not having tow worry about ice is a godsend.

If you're assuming that's already in your default list, then the next one is my 150L water bladder that sits across the rear footwell.

My next thing to get will be a hot Water Shower...small comforts make a big difference.

Cheers,
Dave

The most useful accessory we've bought would have to be our camper trailer for sure!
Reasoning here?

Last year we went camping in the tent four times, Australia Day to Fraser Island, Easter to Rover Park, ANZAC to Levuka and August to Aratula.....

We bought the trailer in January and since then have been for weekend trips to Bribie Island, Inskip Point, Canungra (twice), Gorge Station and a week's sojourn on Fraser Island..... June weekend we are off to 'Cruiser Park and then to Kingaroy for an overnighter on the way home.
We haven't planned any further ahead than that yet.. :-)

Tent peg puller - custom made with longer handle.

Imagine being miles for anywher & losing the ignition key. What are ya gunna donow???????????????

It could have dropped out when you got out of your swag/went to the dunny & dropped ya daks/misplaced it while shopping/lost in the dirt around your campsite/a gazillion other possibilities.

That is why I nominate a SPARE ignition KEY.

spare key HAS to be kept by a passenger.................not by you. You idiot, you just lost one, no reason why you won't lose another.

:-))), but also serious. I ask for my spare key back only when we get home & that passenger alights for the last time on that trip.

I am sure everyone will laugh, but I drive about 30,000km a year and I can't do without my bright blue cancer council fingerless driving gloves.

Not only do they meant that I don't worry about getting the backs of my hands sunburnt (hopefully reducing skin cancers) but they are great when the sreering wheel and gear stick are boiling in the middle of summer in the middle of desert and freezing cold in theose early mornings, but they are great protection for pulling out the spinifex to light a fire...

The most useful accessory?

That short little lever thingy that sticks up out of the floor beside the gear stick!
Can't do without it.

Mattock !!!

Tent peg puller, hammer, pit toilet maker, shovel substitute, ground leveller, log splitter, fire puter outer! , can crusher, ...the list is ..well can't remember them all !!

A good one for me is the 12 volt double flouro light (pirahana or similar).

When I started out in this camping game I was using a gas light. was pretty good but awkward, heavy, noisy, potentialy dangerous.

Now i have my 120amp hr second battery and my flouro light. soooooo much easier. bright laight, lasts all night, safe as well.

Muddy

Gotta be the Pressuare activated water pump.

When we go away NOTHING get's used by us or the people we go away with more than the water tap haning off the back of the car.

Pressured water in the middle of the bush is just so handy, you use it for things you'd never even thought you'd need it for.

Next the fridge/cooler, then the lights, then yadaa yadaa yah.