Campfire stories

A DigitalNZ Story by Brent McIntyre

People sitting or standing around fires, talking

campfire, camping, bonfire

Image: Group around a campfire

Group around a campfire

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Campfire, Lynemouth

Campfire, Lynemouth

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Image: Maori around a campfire

Maori around a campfire

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Image: Three men, [including Edgar Williams?], sitting around a campfire at night, probably West Coast Region

Three men, [including Edgar Williams?], sitting around a campfire at night, probably West Coast Region

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: [Servicemen around a campfire]

[Servicemen around a campfire]

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Image: LRDG patrol members sitting around a campfire on the Libyan Sand Sea

LRDG patrol members sitting around a campfire on the Libyan Sand Sea

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Goldminers sitting around a campfire

Goldminers sitting around a campfire

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Edgar Williams by campfire and unidentified man by tent, unknown location

Edgar Williams by campfire and unidentified man by tent, unknown location

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Two unidentified men lighting a campfire next to a river, Fox Glacier, West Coast Region

Two unidentified men lighting a campfire next to a river, Fox Glacier, West Coast Region

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Edgar Williams (centre, back), with group of schoolboys, boiling a billy over campfire in native forest, probably West Coast Region

Edgar Williams (centre, back), with group of schoolboys, boiling a billy over campfire in native forest, probably West Coast Region

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: An unidentified man with a dog, boiling a billy over a campfire next to a river, [Franz Josef Glacier, West Coast Region?]

An unidentified man with a dog, boiling a billy over a campfire next to a river, [Franz Josef Glacier, West Coast Region?]

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Edgar Williams and Jack Lye sitting around a campfire at night, during mountaineering trip, [Waimakariri Valley, Canterbury Region?]

Edgar Williams and Jack Lye sitting around a campfire at night, during mountaineering trip, [Waimakariri Valley, Canterbury Region?]

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Edgar Williams and an unidentified man, sitting by a campfire under a rock overhang, [Franz Josef, Westland District?]

Edgar Williams and an unidentified man, sitting by a campfire under a rock overhang, [Franz Josef, Westland District?]

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Group of men and women sitting beside a small campfire on a rocky river bed, including Edgar and Alice Williams (at the back), unknown location

Group of men and women sitting beside a small campfire on a rocky river bed, including Edgar and Alice Williams (at the back), unknown location

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Edgar and Owen Williams with unidentified man sitting outside a tent and eating a meal with the campfire in front, Catlins District

Edgar and Owen Williams with unidentified man sitting outside a tent and eating a meal with the campfire in front, Catlins District

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Campfire on the beach at Pararaha, Waitākere Ranges

Campfire on the beach at Pararaha, Waitākere Ranges

Auckland Libraries

Image: Scouts Camp, Takaka

Scouts Camp, Takaka

Nelson Provincial Museum

Image: Sclanders

Sclanders

Nelson Provincial Museum

Image: Farm labourers

Farm labourers

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Image: Hemus, Charles, 1849-1925 :Kai time. [ca 1900]

Hemus, Charles, 1849-1925 :Kai time. [ca 1900]

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Women from the Whiting and Vaughan party cooking on a camp fire, at Kapiti Island

Women from the Whiting and Vaughan party cooking on a camp fire, at Kapiti Island

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: A surveyor's dog

A surveyor's dog

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Image: Members of the 28th New Zealand (Maori) Battalion in the Left Out of Battle (LOB) camp near Capua, Italy - Photograph taken by George Robert Bull

Members of the 28th New Zealand (Maori) Battalion in the Left Out of Battle (LOB) camp near Capua, Italy - Photograph taken by George Robert Bull

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand

Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage