Camp Fires

Now I'd like to approach the subject of camp fires in the scrub. In my wanderings around the goldfields, I have found a lot of camp fires just put on the top of the ground with a circle of small rocks around them. In my opinion, totally unsafe. You might think the fire is out but believe me, under the ash is a live fire and it only takes a little wind and away it goes. I've lost a few chairs and jackets in the early days coz of this practice and I learnt real quick.
I'm a believer in diggin a fire hole. You can pour water on it when ya finished and bury it.
Sacrilege I hear you say. Yep, I've got false signals from buried fires or burnt out stumps but at least when I leave a camp I know there ain't gonna be a scrub fire.
I was pissed again, we had just listened to the eagles v geelong game and I had to drown my sorrows.



bignuggs

Nothing To bloody burn at this patch

Note the garbage bag for rubbish in the pic


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Pete

our camp with our fire
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Nice camp setup and nice fire. It does get cold out there but I still say ya gotta be careful.
Just my opinion.

cheers
nuggs

I'm with you bignuggs, ya gotta respect that stuff for many reasons.

All these camp fire pictures is making me feel a little homesick

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Funny use to drag rocks to make a fire place but its so easy to just dig a hole and when ya leave just scrap the dirt over the pit.

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With all this rain here (NSW and WA from what i can gather) will be a high risk soon with all this new growth.

Cheers
John

freshwater wrote:

With all this rain here (NSW and WA from what i can gather) will be a high risk soon with all this new growth.

All the new growth is gona be a shocka John, even now the grass has stopped me from doing some nice potential coin locations. (In Vic)