My Campsite Flooded and it made me sad

About a week after some of the heaviest January rain in 150 years I went back to check up on the permanent forest campsite I had been building and discovered the worst…

Me being sad

I had been given permission to build a campsite in a private forest plantation and had spend about 4 days in January felling trees, clearing lower limbs, setting up a teepee and starting work on a shelter made from the wood I had been cutting down.

Just a note: I am normally a 100% leave no trace person but in these circumstances, leaving no trace was the worst thing I could do.

This was a private forest plantation, monoculture trees planted very close together and a plantation like this needs management to thrive, it needs thinned every 15 years or so, but no work had been carried out here yet and the forest was now 25 years old. So in exchange for building a camp I was going to do some of that thinning. Win win for me and the land owner.

But I went back to the forest after several weeks of heavy rainfall to discover it had been under about 2-3ft of water and everything was either washed away, damaged or covered in mud.

Now I have to decide to abandon the project, relocate, or build on stilts.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/JjHSpHQF1hk