During a recent camping trip to the Northern Flinders Ranges, we experienced another situation where our Freedom Family Tourer proved to be a good choice of tent.
We were camped in a small creek valley at the back of Arkaroola, and had a day of strong winds, capped off with 24 hours of thunderstorms. Then, just when we thought it was all over, we had a very violent wind and rain storm that spent 5 minutes tearing up our little valley.
Many of the mallee scrub trees were flattened several had every branch ripped off their trunks and most of the rest ended up with limbs missing.
The only tent left standing amongst all this was our Family Tourer, supporting the weight of three solid tree limbs that had landed on it.
All other tents in the area were flattened: broken poles and torn.
We have spend about 200 nights in our Family Tourer now, and experienced extreme wind, very heavy rain, dust storms: the works. It has never leaked, blown over or come apart.
It has certainly proved to be a wise choice for us.
