Cape York Cooking

Submitted: Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:56

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Lochmonster

Greetings all. Open camp fires - I wouldn't mind cooking a roast in the camp oven when up north soon. Do any of you fellow explorer's know if it's a workable plan to have an open fire at either Captain Billy Landing, Chilli Beach and Lakefield to cook a good feed?

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Reply By: traveller2 - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:33

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:33

For us southerners the hardest bit with fires in the tropics is finding decent firewood, them little white buggars have eaten everything out, even the stuff still standing and filled it with dirt to boot.

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Follow Up By: Member - Greydemon (WA) - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:05

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:05

Pommie immigrants eat wood? I bet they make it into (wood) chips first.

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Reply By: Willem - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 14:35

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 14:35

As long as there isn't a fire ban, then why not. Just remember that Maleleuca(Paperbark) doesn't burn very well. If you hunt around you should find enough eucaplypt limbs to use for your fire. Dig a shallow pit and make lots of nice coals to surround the oven with.

I must qualify the statement however, that I haven't been that way yet, but assume that the Cape has much of the same vegetation as the other sub tropical regions of Northern Australia.

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Follow Up By: Kev M (NSW) - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 15:53

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 15:53

Willem,

Of all the travelling you have done I find it amazing that you haven't done the Cape trip.
Is it on your to do list or does it just not interest you?

Kev

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Follow Up By: Willem - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 16:10

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 16:10

Kev.......yerrr...lol

Well SWMBO isn't interested but I am, from a travellers point of view. We lived in the tropics for 20 years and so the Cape Trip won't be anything 'new'.

We have been as far as Cooktown up the Bloomfield Track at the end of the last Century...lol

2008 will be a last hurrah for some extreme offtrack stuff in WA. Maybe 2009 or 2010 will see me go the Cape way. I will get there one day!!! And there is still Tassie as well and the rest of Arnhemland.

So many places to go, so little time left.............

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Follow Up By: Kev M (NSW) - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 16:28

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 16:28

There is always time, it's just finding it that is the problem LOL

Kev

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Reply By: Member - Robyn J (QLD) - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 21:42

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 21:42

When we were in Chilli Beach we renamed it Windy Beach because of the wind.
We actually dug a hole for the fire and put a surround around it for the wind as well as a sand surrand. Cant remember about the timber requiriments there. Have always travelled, if you see good timber along the way stop and collect, because you never know when you might need. This has served us well all around Aust. The numbor of times in a camping spot people have come to ask us where did we get the timber for the fire and our response was about 200 kms back down the track.
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Follow Up By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 22:18

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 at 22:18

When camped at Chilli Beach all the wood we found was either driftwood or green , the fire we made was REALLY smokey , Dont live anywhere near there but imagine its a pretty popular place , IE no fire wood .

When we stayed there it was also windy . The only 'problem' we had was that the place was quite deserted when we were there , Some English people camped within spitting distance , we only think they were scared of camping alone.

Glenn.

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Follow Up By: Lochmonster - Monday, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:52

Monday, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:52

Thanks Guys. Yep, those with some shmick know to collect whenever the opportunity arises. Glenn D, I also heed your point about people camping right beside you and come to the same conclusion. My other conclusion is that many spend long periods in isolation whilst travelling, and when looking for a site, they set up right beside other humans to get that subconcious connection back. We once set up on a long stretch of beach east of Cape Esperance WA, no one else around. As the day progressed, people arrived and by the end of the day we were swamped yet the whole beach is the same. So much for the serenity. Anyway, I reckon I'll pack the camp oven and the roast & vegies and go for it. Tally Ho!

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