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<\/a><\/p>\nJust after midnight this guy came out of the darkness and joined us.\u00a0 He didn’t say much but we felt we had to offer him some honey roasted nuts and a glass of red wine to wash it down regardless.\u00a0 He then left as suddenly as he had appeared.\u00a0 I was glad, the conversation felt a bit awkward with a stranger in our midst.<\/p>\n The first of our party turned in while myself and Rumblebum sat on for a while longer into the wee small hours putting the world to rights.\u00a0 We gathered as much of the rubbish as we could and burnt it on the fire.\u00a0 Included in the rubbish was unopened tinned foods.\u00a0 The nice thing about leaving camp in the morning is knowing that you have consumed some of the weight you have carried the day before – carrying other people’s rubbish out again is a bit depressing.\u00a0 Rumblebum came up with what he thought was a cunning plan to deal with a full tin of beans throwing it into the heart of the fire.\u00a0 Now I’m no physicist but vacuum sealed things and fire don’t usually mix too well.\u00a0 well no matter, the fire was in its retirement phase anyway so I thought we’d probably just end up carrying a slightly charred full tin of beans the next day.<\/p>\n We sat enjoying the peace and quiet and watching the glow of the fire, then the next thing was a huge BOOM as the tin of beans exploded, exploding our fire with it.\u00a0 We both sat for a moment processing what had just happened before becoming creased in laughter at the site that now surrounded us.\u00a0 “What the heck was that?” came the call from our fellow camper awoken from his slumber by the blast.\u00a0 Surveying the blast area we could see that a half eaten packet of donuts had been blown about 6 feet away and various lumps of wood had similarly been catapulted in all directions.\u00a0 Despite only sitting 2 foot from the fire we had moved so quick that the\u00a0back<\/strong>\u00a0of our coats were the bits that got covered in most of the tomato sauce.\u00a0 We were lucky the blast mostly went sideways and not towards us.<\/p>\n Where Rumblebum had been sitting a few minutes earlier.<\/p><\/div>\n The su su su su su su su suspect device \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Having totally decimated our wee fire it was time to hit the sack.<\/p>\n The next morning we had a quick dander up around the flank of Luke’s Mountain before following the river back into the forest.<\/p>\n Another quality night under canvas, and a few more funny memories to add to life’s experience.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n