AnswerID: 484325 Submitted: Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 at 21:08
rumpig
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you can have a fire on the beach, you just need to know the rules, but obviously a total fire ban is a total fire ban.
last year you could still have an open fire in a drum that was 300mm up above the sand to stop the sand from heating up, only thing was the fuel you used had to be a manufactured fuel, so sawdust logs, heat beads, compressed paper logs etc were acceptable, no timber allowed!!!. you then needed to remove the ash from the island when you left, it wasn't allowed to be buried in the sand.
recently the rules were changed and you can no longer have an open drum going on what is written now. if you have a fully inclosed burner like an Oz Pig type setup, then you can still have a fire of sorts whilst camped on the beach. i haven't checked what the fuel source rule is, but my guess is it would be the same as it used to be, and manufactured fuels only, not timber.
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Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 at 21:11
rumpig posted:
i forgot to mention...i know it says no fires allowed in the link posted up earlier, but that has always been written there, and you were allowed the setup we used mentioned earlier. i have had Rangers look at the drum last year and all they wanted to know was what we were burning in it, once shown the heatbeads and sawdust logs they were happy and left us alone. the people camped down from us burning timber in their fire were given a fine for doing so.
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