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A swag is one of the most valuable purchases you can make for camping and whatever you think, they're NOT all the same. I have three different ones, each for a particular use. There's the old faithful, single swag that has a double inlayer of 16oz canvas and a two-inch high-density foam mattress for rough ground and potentially rainy situations when I'm on my own.

Then I have two queen-sized swags, which have about as much in common as a Commodore and a Land Cruiser. One is for freezing temperatures and the other for warm, tropical environments.

The cold, country swag was designed and made by Bob Burrage, and is lined with 100 per cent wool, with a shell of 16-ounce tear-stop canvas. The second swag, made for tropical environments, is made by Mick and Michelle, the owners and operators of Classic Canvas Swags from Echuca. This latter one has heavy duty mesh sewn into a zip up and pitchable almost tent cover that is impenetrable to bugs and bites. It allows air flow over the occupant for the tropical situations.

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The heavy duty canvas top also zips up so you have a waterproof insulated bed for the colder nights. Pitching up off your body means that nothing is resting on you when you are sleeping, and is very comfy.

I don't take my young bloke camping in winter due to the fact that he gets bad croup from cool night air, so warmth and insulation aren't a real consideration for him, and his swag is an eight-ounce canvas, cheap mass produced job that also pitches up like a tiny tent.

Tannhym's swag has double zips, which can be cable tied together, and since we're always around water, we sleep much better knowing that he can't get out till we want him to.

If you just have the standard old swag type, a Mozzie net will also help on those hot nights when you just want to lay on top of your swag and enjoy some sleep without getting eaten alive by those little disease-spreading critters. All you need to do is hang it from a high point and spread it out like a well-thrown cast net. Just make sure it doesn't lie against your skin, as the little suckers will bite right through it.

The camp shovel is an essential tool that's going to be used many times over a camping trip. It has multiple uses from mending the fire, to digging run off drains from the tarp if it rains. You will use the shovel to divert water flowing through camp and digging a hole for the ‘call of nature.' It can be used for digging out of a bog in the 4WD and at least a hundred other uses.

A decent tarpaulin is also essential. I don't mean those paper thin blue things that you can buy for five dollars at the bargain shop either.

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