My Camping Trip (Personal Recount)

Camping Disaster

This story is all about the most, miserable, horrible disastrous camping trip I’ve ever been on in my life, well I mean it could be worse but still it was pretty bad. This event had happened during the summer holidays, the days were getting hotter and hotter, me and my family were all exhausted to do anything or even to take a step outside! Since the weather was melting hot it felt like we were all trapped in a hot volcano erupting with boiling lava. But days and days went on and we all started to get VERY bored, so me and my family (Me, Mum, Tony Shaun, and my wee dog named Tilly) thought up a nice camping trip at Nelson Creek! (well at least I thought it was at the time)....

We all started to gather our camping gear together which took about 20 minutes or so, for all of us to get ready and head to Nelson Creek in total it took about half an hour or so, but we were all ready by the time of 10:30, and off we were on the road heading to a peaceful relaxation environment man I was pumped to relax and enjoy spending time with my family, oh and to also go for a nice walk on the bridge. We had eventually arrived there at around 11:00 it didn’t take very long to get there. We all hopped out of the ute and grabbed our gear from the boot and started unpacking. The most annoying/boring part was setting up the tents it was a NIGHTMARE, but luckily I don’t have a very big family so me and my brother shared a tent, and then my mum and Tony had shared one (but one thing that made it a bit more annoying was that there was a few arguments about the tents which was a bit silly, but we all had a good laugh) . Finally we had everything unpacked, the tents, the barbecue, blankets, pillows, the food, oh and of course the in scent repillant, (that had came very handy) also how can I forget one of the most important things to have on a camping trip sunblock.


It had been about a few hours or so, we were all having a nice conversation together, we all started getting a bit peckish so we grabbed a box of cheese and barbecue flavoured shapes and some nice sweet cherries. Everything was going quite good, it was peaceful relaxing, but….. Then four buses of tourists came driving down! We were all like man come on! It was so quiet and peaceful, with only so little of people were there, but then chaos started. There was a whole bunch of tourist having a big lunch! It was crazy! It started to get very crowded and noisy, the relaxation of peace was now turned into a mess. Luckily they didn’t stay for too long they stayed for about an hour or so, so now it was back to peacefulness. So as me and my family were just enjoying our time having a nice cold drink of lemonade and a few snacks, it was all going good until I felt a little bite on my ankle. The Moses and sand flies were attacking! I reach out in the bag and grab the insect repellent and spray it all over my legs and arms.


There wasn’t much to do and it was getting quite boring, so me and my brother decided to go on the bridge walk and explore. We went through the dark cave that echoed when we spoke, we ran across the bridge it was quite fun. We went on a half an hour 45 min walk, we walked across little water streams, and one point I walked across a boulder and I accidentally had fallen into a water stream, me and my brother both started laughing. Once we had finished the walk we ran back to our camping site and I fell to the ground with exhaustion I was so puffed from running back. It had been about three or four hours the time was flying by and it was already 6:30! It was still daylight and we were all very hungry, so my stepdad (Tony) Put some sausages on the barbecue and of they were nicely sizzling along. It took about 20 minutes or 25 minutes for them to be fully cooked. We all ate our sausages and we were full as a ball, I couldn’t even take another bite even if I tried too. Time went by and we were all exhausted and tired. Me and my brother headed into our tent and headed to bed but…


That idea of having a nice sleep and having sweet dreams turned into a nightmare. Their were adults and teenagers having a party! There was loud roaring music, fires, parents drinking booze, it was just horrible. The current time was 9:30 and there was still little kids running around the place! Me and my brother just laid there and started talking there was no point of trying to fall asleep since the music was booming out loud and we could hear loud voices from afar. We sat up and talked for quite along time, I was really tired and I just wanted to get some rest, I did luckily get some after my mum and Tony could hear me and my brother talking, so we got told off, we started giggling a little. The sky was pitch black the little stars were sparkling in my eyes the moonlight lit up, the bright light shines right through the tent, I gently closed my eyes and fell asleep. I was in deep sleep, I'm still curious on how I had fallen asleep so fast from all the racket noise that I was surrounded by, but not too long after I had been woken up by my brother at 2:30 in the morning :( I woke up and I was quite furious I asked my brother
“Why did you wake me up??!”
He shrugged his shoulders and laughed. I think he might’ve just woke me up for a joke, but at the time it wasn’t very funny. Both me and my brother had eventually fallen into deep sleep.


It was early in the morning 5:30 am to be exact and I woke up again shivering, it was raining! The tent was soaked in water and it was freezing cold, somehow my sleeping bag was in the corner of the tent I reach out to grab it and I snuggle back inside. It was still very cold, and I was wide awake, I couldn’t fall back asleep, I was very surprised my brother, mum and Tony were still fast asleep. I layed in my sleeping bag staring at the top of the soaking tent with water dripping on my face, only having my thoughts let alone with me. Not too long I thought to get revenge back on my brother I can wake him up early, so the time was very early so I thought it was a perfect idea to wake him up! I grabbed my pillow and threw it at him. He slowly opened his eyes and spoke with a croaky voice saying,
“What time is it”
I didn’t end up replying with the actual time, so instead I had just replied with

“Its 10:30 quick get ready were leaving” (so I could try and trick him)

He didn’t believe me sadly haha, he said
“No its not I’m not dumb, there aint no light outside” he said in a very funny voice.
(it didn’t go how I was expecting it to be but it was still very funny).


Me and my brother had finally fallen asleep, we both had woken up and it was still pouring with rain. My mum and stepdad were up and already packing to leave, I carefully stood up I was a little bit shaky since I had just woken up. I carefully unzipped the tent and walked outside to ask my mum what the time was she said it was 9:00, and it was cold and miserable we all just wanted to go home desperately and I just wanted to feel the warmth of a cozy fire and to be able to snuggle up in my nice warm and toasty bed I was just so desperate to have a nice decent sleep. We all were up and busy packing, I really couldn’t be bothered packing since, my lack of sleep I had gotten made me extremely tired. Thankfully it didn’t take very long we all were super fast since it was drooping with rain, we all just couldn’t wait to get back home. We hopped in the ute and off we went driving back home. We all got out of the vehicle quickly grabbed all of the gear and made sure we didn’t leave anything behind and thank goodness we didn't! Cause that would’ve been the last thing on my mind. I ran back into my house unpacked all of my stuff quickly as possible and headed to the lounge to be near the warm cozy fire and to watch a movie with my family.


Well the camping trip didn’t go how we all expected it to be. My thoughts of peace and relaxation, ended quickly. So many disastrous things did happen on my camping trip, but that's what made it more fun. I tripped on a boulder and fell in water, me and my family got attacked by bugs, teenagers and parents blasting loud music, having to set up the tents (now that was quite annoying, but very funny), loads of tourists came, I mean maybe it wasn’t so bad after all, but I could definitely say I had been on way better camping trips. But the bright side is at least I got to spend some nice time with my family, along with a lot of laughs, so in the end it was a disaster but it was very funny and something me and my family will remember.



Learning Intention: In my class room we are learning how to use dialog, in our recounts. We have been writing a recount thats personal to us so like something that has happened in the past or present, and what we feel is special and important to us. Here I wrote a recount about my camping trip.