Survival skills or keeping up with Jones?

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In a former era, families would achieve campsite supremacy by demonstrating their survival skills. Today, it's all about your capacity to replicate or enhance home comforts. One of the joys of camping is to wander through the site and discover the latest devices to enable your family to live on holiday exactly as they do at home.

Surely this can't be true! Has camping shifted from an affordable holiday based on your resources and skill to a consumer race in which those with the big bucks are the heroes?

The full article from The Australian can be found here.