In a Village in the Amazon

A Wild Life Expedition (UK) amazed and bewildered a family in the Amazon Rainforest when they strung up Hennessy Hammocks in the rafters of their lodge. They also used them as chairs during the day.

Photos Courtesy of Grey Matters Pty, Botswana.

With Elephants in Botswana

Photo of Jabu, Thembi and Morula playing with a Hennessy Hammock in Botswana. The elephants seem to be having lots of fun, but we wonder about the guy inside! This photo was provided to us by Kelsey Massie from Galiano Island who is working to protect the African Elephant.

Our three very special African Elephants — Jabu, Thembi and Morula — not only make a comfortable bed for you in the bush, they also take you on an elephant-paced walking safari through the African wilderness. Come explore the Okavango Delta, Botswana - alongside our majestic friends. Contact Doug and Sandi Groves at:

Grey Matters Ltd., Box 66,
Maun, Botswana
Phone/Fax (267) 663 198

The Hennessy Hammock is shown here in a high alpine winter camp site near Mount Rainier. As long as you have two trees or some other anchor to tie it to, the hammock can be set up and ready to use in just minutes. It's just as much at home in the jungle, on the beach, or in a winter campsite.

In the far north of Canada, trees can be hard to find...but an innovative hiker pitched his hammock beneath a giant "Husky" oil sign. That's Michael sitting on the ground by the post on the right.

Here's a portion of a letter from Michael Wood of Planetrek:

"Dear Tom:I thought I'd start off by saying that you and I have had a chance meeting before. It was some years ago at the Payless gas station in Brentwood Bay (British Columbia)...we had a little chit-chat while I filled your truck with propane.

I mentioned that I was bound for the woods to try my luck at tree planting and that's when you introduced my life to the Cocoon. That same hammock has been an invaluable tool from Dawson to Panama City and most places in between. Every time I string the Cocoon, I am callled upon to explain the contraption to a multitude of folk, often seeking to acquire one for themselves. I tell them that it is the hitch-hiker's best friend...that a soul never need look far for a good night's rest anywhere in the great outdoors..."

Sailing in the Gulf Islands, Canada

Hennessy Hammocks are being used on board boats! This one is set up between the mast and the forestay of a sailboat in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada. The hammock and rainfly side tie-outs are attached to the boat's side rails.
Photo, Christina Oros

On the West Coast Trail

Photo and letter from Mike Elsdon, Calgary, Alberta

The final night at Michigan Creek had one spot that was perfect for a hammock, however, by this time I had begun to travel and camp with a group of tenters and they wanted to camp at the other end of the beach. Again, thick trees with impenetrable underbrush. I scouted out a couple of potential places in the trees, but then turned around and spotted the most bizarre washed up tree I had ever seen. One stump projecting two massive trees that curved to form a set of giant mammoth tusks. The tide was low enough that night to provide me a great spot to hang. Just because of the shape and size of the trees, and the perfection of their spacing this was perhaps one of my all time favorite spots to hang from.

It's it really true that Hennessys are the Hammock of choice for extraterrestrials?

Several years ago while selling my Art at the Summer Fest for Water sports at Ladysmith on Vancouver Island I not only saw but bought the first time I saw "it", THE best most practical toy I have owned in my travels. "I don't leave home without it".

No matter when or where, be it on a sailboat as guest cavorting around the Johnson Strait off Vancouver Island, kayaking/canoeing anywhere, as a quick shelter and quite often the only one even for week camping/canoe/kayak trips, travelling in my car as a quick rest stop off from long drives be it in Canada or even in the Arizona desert and my latest use in back-up shelter plans while travelling in China Laos, Tibet off and on these past two years. - Irmgard aka Kunming "Joy"

- hammock at sunset, photo by Jackie Evans

If you have any photos of the Hennessy Hammock from around the world, please send them to us and we'd be happy to include them on our web site