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  • beaglebasher
    beaglebasher
    5 months
    If it happens again you should get soapy to send you up some sausages.
    He would probably have them cooking before the fire got there.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 months
    Picked up some Golf of Carpentaria wild salt water Barramundi wings from the Cairns market, done them in the mini Weber. 👍
  • GGUser260
    GGUser260
    4 months
    Quoting bloodog on 02 Jun 2024 04:13 AM

    Picked up some Golf of Carpentaria wild salt water Barramundi wings from the Cairns market, done them in the mini Weber. 👍

    looks great. If Buffalo can have wings why not a barra too.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 months
    Went down to Peak Crossing for a cultural burning workshop, about 130 kms, took the bagger. Had to leave at 0645, sun barely up, temp was 2° and still dropping, didn't get much warmer until I hit the more open country south of Esk. Used to do small patchwork burns a bit back on my old Obi land. Of course cultural burning is different in sifferent parts of the country. In Western Sydney it's probably the stolen cars.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 months
    Quoting obisteve on 22 Jun 2024 09:38 AM

    Went down to Peak Crossing for a cultural burning workshop, about 130 kms, took the bagger. Had to leave at 0645, sun barely up, temp was 2° and still dropping, didn't get much warmer until I hit the more open country south of Esk. Used to do small patchwork burns a bit back on my old Obi land. Of course cultural burning is different in sifferent parts of the country. In Western Sydney it's probably the stolen cars.

    Knew about it but experienced it first hand on our Cape York trip....two indigenous lads started a burn just a few meters away when we stopped for a breather. We mentioned it to the ranger in Coen who wised us up...dumb white boys from the city! 
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 months
    More on the burn....local gubi gubi people have a vision for the sunshine coast that includes traditional burns along with fish traps, cultural centre and gubi gubi language lessons.
  • Humbug
    Humbug
    3 months
    They call it caring for country up here. Have been on a couple of trips. Driving round throwing lit matchs out the troopy windows,easy as.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 months
    Fish traps in the Obi, that will make it easier to catch the Mary River cod that live in it.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    3 months
    Stick of jelly works good 😁
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 months
    Got our first fire callout for the season on Sunday, to help a cockey with a neighbours burn off that had jumped the fence late Saturday arvo. Didn't do a lot, the fire died down with a heavy morning fog and dew. Did get to do a protective burn around this place, a deer hunters hut perched high on a ridge with a great view. Off grid solar set up, good BBQ. Wouldn't mind staying there myself.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    There's a slow cooked lamb shank in there, with potato, swede, turnip, carrots and half a cup of lentils, with homemade plain yoghurt, sprig of rosemary and chopped onion greens out of the garden, with some of the rye bread I bake to mop it up with. Good cold weather tucker, suits the cool rainy days we're having now.

  • Hilly
    Hilly
    1 month
    I could tuck into that no worries at all
  • evo94
    evo94
    1 month
    Quoting obisteve on 13 Aug 2024 10:34 AMedited: 13 Aug 2024 10:36 AM

    There's a slow cooked lamb shank in there, with potato, swede, turnip, carrots and half a cup of lentils, with homemade plain yoghurt, sprig of rosemary and chopped onion greens out of the garden, with some of the rye bread I bake to mop it up with. Good cold weather tucker, suits the cool rainy days we're having now.


    sounds / looks awesome....been having lots of homemade soups / breads here too - certainly helped us get over the shittiest of flu's we have both endured last couple of weeks...
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    Thanks fellas, drop round in winter and I'll serve some up.
  • evo94
    evo94
    1 month
    Quoting obisteve on 14 Aug 2024 09:17 AM

    Thanks fellas, drop round in winter and I'll serve some up.

    hey i read your local is up for sale - put an offer in yet cob?
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    Nah, since it became a big drive tourism attraction it's way out of my price range. Besides, to successfully run a pub you have to be nice to people most of the time, and I can be a cranky old bastard sometimes. You've probably noticed.
    I did slightly help fund its renovation during the pandemic, a young couple had bought it and started its renovation from being a grubby old run down health risk country pub then were hit with the lockdowns and no income, ran out of money. They tried crowd funding to complete the detailing on the old wooden verandah posts, my wife and I kicked in for some. It's been sold twice since then.


  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    2nd call for the season, a cockies burn off that flared up after they shot through. Stopped it along the road, and checked up a neighbours fire break on the boundary. Nothing dramatic. 
    These 5 tonne Isuzus go up and down hills like Billy goats.
    Unfortunately it wouldn't change up out of low range at the end of play, so a slow trip back to the shed.
  • brucefxdl
    brucefxdl
    1 month
    Quoting obisteve on 19 Aug 2024 10:21 AMedited: 19 Aug 2024 10:24 AM

    2nd call for the season, a cockies burn off that flared up after they shot through. Stopped it along the road, and checked up a neighbours fire break on the boundary. Nothing dramatic. 

    These 5 tonne Isuzus go up and down hills like Billy goats.
    Unfortunately it wouldn't change up out of low range at the end of play, so a slow trip back to the shed.

    a capable 4wd in good hands is a handy machine.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    And if any one in Eastern Qld reckons its a bit smoky out there, this is a map of the currently active Permits to Burn.
    And on a great day for it like today, I reckon they'd have all been lit up.
  • evo94
    evo94
    16 days ago
    weekend arvo...bit outa practice - tad too much heat...


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