Member No 1 posted:

now there's a thought....how does one take live cray away with them..i get sick of frozen ones

Bega Photographer posted:

Oh Daza! It brought tears to my eyes, Mate, as I imagined the modern day equivalent at Surfers Paradise. I couldn't stop laughing enough to get through reading it to the missus.

So Dad gets a squwarking chook out of the wooden crate, probably in the shade of a tree.

Dad takes the axe in his right hand and proceeds to the tree stump.

One good blow and the chook's head falls to the ground.

Dad lets go of the struggling chook which then races round the immediate area of the caravan park, banging into anything in it's path, with blood flying everywhere.

Eventually the chook drops and Dad picks it up.

Dad carries the chook over to the tent and starts the plucking and gutting.

When finished Dad raps up the feathers, guts and head in news paper and sends you to the old 44 gallon bin with the mess.

Wouldn't go down too well these days, huh?

Gerhardp1 posted:

I'm cracking up, just imagining the looks on the faces of the younger campers as the axe falls and the headless chook does it's final run...

The place would then be inundated with the RSPCA and the axe wielder would probably finish up in court...

Member - Davoe (Yalgoo) posted:

Only some things jimbo
imagine how many extra places there were to camp back then.
even by the time they had put up the taj mahal you would still be driving to get to the nearest campsite and even that is overcrowded

Member - DAZA (QLD) posted:

My dad would take the chooks down to the edge of the Nerang
River near the mangroves and do the deed, then use the guts for fishing, the other campers would do the same, with there birds.

Cheers
Daza

Bega Photographer posted:

So you ate well enough then. Fresh chicken and fish, huh? A bit of canned food thrown in.

Regards,
Laurie.

Member - DAZA (QLD) posted:

Hi louie

We had a sliding sun roof in the old girl. I think he sealed it up.
if you wanted to be cool you could sit in the dicky seat, and smell the
exhaust fumes, and get sore eyes.
(its a wonder the chooks didnt get gased on the trip down the coast)

Cheers
Daza

Member - DAZA (QLD) posted:

Hi Steve

I will get the cook/wife to have a look in the old photo albums,
they would be all black & white, if we have I will get back to you.

Cheers
Daza

Member - Luke (SA) posted:

Love the rig pic Ozboc

I wonder what the babies would turn out like lol

Ozboc posted:

would probably look like a Disco , or even worse -- a holden Jackeroo .... shudders at the thought :)

Boc