Camping On the Water
by Bonnie Alter, London 
on 07.17.08
We love the idea of camping right on the water; so close you can reach over and dangle your fingers in it. These floating cabins fill the bill. Their base is a raft made from tree trunks, supported by barrels, which should make them fairly stable. They sleep four and each hut comes with camping mattresses, seats, gas stoves and lamps, a Canadian canoe (only the best) and, ahem, a toilet bucket. This is a very romantic or scary set-up, depending on your point of view since the cabins are moored along a river and are only accessible by canoe...
So what can you do on this love-boat...listen to the birds, play with the children, paddle to the little village near-by, bike to surrounding towns, swat mosquitoes or just read a book. The one draw-back for many is that they are located in Holland. A good idea to import to North America? :: camping-raft
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My wife refers to yachting as 'damping' - she'll love this!
We made this kind of floating cabin (not this big in size) ourselves in India and do camping on weekends.
This would be great on some of the lochs in scotland. I don't hink it could ever happen here though in the land of health and safety. Not to mention liability insurance....
watch out, that blade of grass is sharp!
They are in America. They're called chickees, and you can find them along many rivers and in the Everglades. The only thing is that you bring your own tent because, you know, we have mosquitoes and all that.
i see the mosquitoes at night being a problem.
That's pretty neat, I hadn't thought of something like that! :)
It's a cruise ship buffet for mosquitoes! Brilliant!
Roma tic thing!
Roma tic thing!
Roma tic thing!