It's 2013!

A huge happy new year from the BZF team, I hope you all enjoyed your much needed holiday break; all the build up for the end of the world was a tad exhausting!

I took the opportunity on my holidays to keep on those bushes camping survival skills and headed to the bush with Mr K for a few nights of camping.

After lessons learnt on our first camping trip we this time selected a spot still close to running water but further away from the highway, we all know highways will mean bad news when it all starts going down.

                                                    Camp site

I feel I really stepped it up this time and got out of my comfort zone by washing my hair in the river, oh and even my knickers too. There is just no need for personals hygiene to go out the window just because you have to survive in the wilderness.

                                                   Fresh from the river bath, someone get me a hair dryer stat!

All was going well until not long after midnight on new year’s when some of the other…shall we say ‘questionable’ residents of the camping grounds, second bottle of bourbon for the day seemed to kick in and things went a little crazy.


First they threatened to set their giant and rather mean looking hunting dog on us for allegedly clapping, needless to say we were not, party animals that we are we headed for our sleeping bags at exactly 12.01am!! Not much longer after there was a pretty awful incident where a woman was getting physically assaulted by one of the male campers, but thankfully others intervened and made sure she was safe, but it was pretty scary and upsetting. We certainly don’t condone any type of violence against women here at BZF, unless of course they are the undead and going to eat you.

As a result early the next morning we packed up and high tailed it out of there, and had to go for pancakes to recover from a rather sleepless night waiting to be murdered in our beds, but still all good preparation for fighting for survival in the new world, where not only zombies but other humans will be the enemy.

How did you all spend your break?

The end is near

Ok so according to the Mayans the end is very near. There seems to be a number of different theories on the actual date, with calculations having to take into account the changeover of the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, leap years etc..I have seen a few different dates thrown around, some say it would have happened in September, oops, some 6 or 23 December 2012 but the most popular one seems to be 21 December 2012. So this begs the questions, is the zombie uprising almost upon us and do you have your survival plan in order?

Are you going to stay and fortify your home and wait it out, or head to a less populated area? Is your car packed and ready to go with camping gear, supplies and as much leopard print as you can throw together?  Have you booked in yet for that pixie cut? Have you been stockpiling Nivea crème and your favourite hair dye? I don’t know about you but if I am dealing with the terrors of a post-apocalyptic wasteland then I am not dealing with bad regrowth too!!

These are all important questions that must be asked in times like these, next week I will share in more detail what the survival plan is for the BZF team. Well that is if we actually make it till next week.

Stay vigilant and stockpile those canned goods, like…NOW.

Miss K

xxxx

Camping survival style

On the weekend I agreed to go camping with Mr K as I decided it was time to brush up on my bush survival skills for the impending 'event'. Now Mr K is not a true believer of the zombie apocalypse and scoffs at me for over stocking the pantry with non perishables and my strict home security rules, but he is an avid camper and has the upper body strength to wield an axe through a zombie skull if it came to it.

So we chose a spot about one hour out of our city, close enough for supply runs but far enough away from the hungry hoards of city infected. Our camp site was slightly elevated and in the centre of the camp area and had sight lines for all angles. It did have some facilities which where questionable but hey better then a shovel, and was on the river so plenty of access to fresh running water.  All round it would be a great spot to set up a survival camp except for one major draw back, it's quite close to the highway which we all know when it all goes down will be chocked full of abandoned cars and walking corpses.  Perhaps we did not have to forage for our own food  and did a quick grocery ron on the way out, oh and purchased our fire wood from the petrol station and took the iPod, but hey you have to start somewhere!!

I did learn a few valuable lessons such as how to finally skip a rock across the water (well making your own entertainment will be important once everything is lost), how to make and cook over a fire and that when mirrors are not in the equation my care factor of how I look is reduced!

                                                   The camp site

                                                   We love camping!

                                                   Dinner survival style

                                                   The facilities!

                                                   The highway

                                                   The view

Overall it was a fun weekend and I would be happy to spend some more weekends developing my survival skills out in the wilds of the Australian bush. I actualy came home really relaxed but I did seem to either catch a cold or the zombie virus, I guess I will find out soon enough.

So what have you been doing to start develping some of those skills that will help you survive?

Till next tme, stay safe and don't get bit!

Miss K
xoxo