Fraser Island No Fires Ideas For Heating

We have used heat beads in a "spit tray" in the past. Not entirely sure it was allowed but the rangers didn't mention anything.
BCF sell a round tray about a metre in diameter with a cover - the tray sits about a foot of the ground on some legs. You can have a fire in it and it probably meets the epa guidelines.

Perhaps use a Cobb Cooker- warm you and cook all the fish you catch :-)

Thanks for the help will look at both at BCF today.

Hi Mark

Its an interesting subject and I have never found a really practical
answer.
We have tried a few things like the Little sun cannister gas heater.
Its puts out a lot more heat than the coleman offerings but its still
inadequate unless the air is still. Almost all the normal camping
shop heaters put out 6-8000 BTU and this just isn't enough.
This includes those camping kero heaters.

Chisel's note about heat beads sounds good to me if you can get away with it.

I have used one thing that does work, but is impractical for most and that is that I got bad chest infection once and needed heat and used bathroom type infra red globes (4 X 275w) and ran them off my inverter with car idling.

The directed infra red was a real winner.

If you have the room those patio type heaters also work , and recently I have seen a model without the big overhead radiator top. It was designed to be used closer to ground level and put out 27,000 BTU.

As a side note, in the factory attached to where I work its very cold now and a lady lathe operator has solved the problem.
She has a hot water bottle strapped to her tummy, this works really well and works even better for males as they don't get the "your pregnant jokes"

here's something we did a few years back when the fire bans were introduced. at the bottom of the ban it says that it is part of act such and such. look up what that act says and it used to say that you could use a prescribed heating device. this device had to be portable ie. fire drum, and had to use a manufactured fuel, something such as sawdust logs or heatbeads, timber wasn't allowed.
now this was a few years back so things might have changed, but it is something worth looking into. just make sure you have a copy of the act to argue your point when the ranger comes to fine you.
i'm not saying it'll work for you, it was just a technicality we came across several year back. these days we just go without fires, ugg boots and jumpers are all we use to keep warm now.