Matt and Elinore Martel at their campsite at Green Patch in Jervis Bay. Photo: bmakin@fairfaxmedia.com.au

Drip, drip, drip, little April showers. Not so good if you are amongst the thousands camping and the drips are coming relentlesslyfrom the canvas.

All the state's bookable camping sites are full according to the National Parks and Wildlife Service. That's 80 destinations, 40,000 bookings and 128,000 campers. That doesn't include the isolated sites where you just turn up and leave a few dollars in the honesty box.

But the risk of inclement weather doesn't seem to deter us, especially if you have paid up front for your pitch. State figures show camping and caravanning declined slightly in 2014 according to Destination NSW but the number of people going camping from Sydney actually bucked the trend and increased by 2.3 per cent.

Members of the Wright, Bond, Dennis, Oliver, Neville and Sacilotto families enjoy Good Friday and the Easter vacation at Bonnie Vale camping ground in the Royal National Park . Photo: besposito@fairfaxmedia.com.au

Campers from regional NSW account for 37 per cent of nights spent under canvas or in a caravan with Sydney campers the second largest group accounting for 26 per cent of nights in the field.

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Such is the demand that National Parks plans to double the number of online bookable sites within two years.

The Easter weather, said the Bureau of Meteorology, from Good Friday, when many were erecting their tents, through to Easter Monday was "showers, rain, shower or two or late shower or two".

Members of the Wright, Bond, Dennis, Oliver, Neville and Sacilotto families enjoy Good Friday and the Easter holidays at Bonnie Vale camping ground in the Royal National Park Sutherland Shire. Photo: besposito@fairfaxmedia.com.au

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