Australian style Bushcraft
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
How we journey on our quest in the outer World very much reflects the journey within in the way we relate to others, cope with the challenge of change and the attendant fear, being extended beyond comfort zones, approach our families, and develop our careers. This journey within is where ‘it is really at’. It is here that we ask ‘Who am I?’, ‘Who is running this show.....me.....my ego.....fate....who?’, ‘Am I OK?’, ‘What do I think and feel about me and what is the truth here?’, and so on. 
Labels: and country based retreats., being extended, camps, comfort zones, corporates, develop, on our quest, seminars, youth |
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Scouts brush up on bushcraft
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
Dragon Skin is the largest on-going scouting activity in the country. Every year, scouts aged between 15 and 18 years head to a State forest somewhere in NSW for a four-day adventure involving challenges in fitness, bushcraft, teamwork and survival. The scouts work in teams, completing as many activities as possible.
 "Sunny Corner State Forest, near Lithgow, was the perfect location for the Dragon Skin due to the many different forest environments," State Forests community liaison officer, Rob Finlay, said. "The scouts experienced both dense pine plantations and native forests when attempting to complete the challenges over the long-weekend.  For more: Labels: bushcraft, Dragon skin, environments, scouts, Survival, the challenges. |
| posted by Laketrade @ 8:45 PM |
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Bushcraft Affliction (Its a disease)
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Monday, July 28, 2008 |
Despite what you’ve heard, Bushcraft is an affliction. It is a disease that grips the unsuspecting person when they are at their lowest ebb. It usually starts with watching certain outdoors television programmes and particularly affe cts the age group of 30 – 45 who haven’t considered buying a high-powered motorcycle.
Early symptoms are: looking longingly at any wooded area, a yearning to buy kit and then a yearning to sleep out in the garden.  Advanced stages of the disease see the afflicted person looking affectionately at sharp, shiny objects, shaving their arm with the said object, constructing strange articles such as wooden spoons and leather pouches, standing at the front door expectantly waiting for a parcel delivery, howling with joy when the parcel arrives, joining forums on the internet, and staying out for 3 or 4 days at a time.  For more: Labels: Early symptoms, Labels: Bushcraft is an effliction, leather pouches, lowest, sleep out, staying |
| posted by Laketrade @ 7:35 PM |
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Going Bush.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
 Roll up your swag, pack your sense of adventure and hit the road with this celebratory tour of outback and indigenous Australia.
Going Bush will help you discover the secrets of this visually stunning, culturally rich, and spiritually fascinating country. Moving through the contrasting regions of 'Coastal, ' 'Tropical, ' 'Desert' and 'Mountains & Plains, ' from the tip of Cape York to the edge of the Great Australian Bight, you'll encounter the stories behind the landscapes, the local bush food and traditional art, a mob of larrikin characters and folk heroes, and above all the fun to be had 'going bush.' Lonely Planet Going Bush: Adventures Across Indigenous AustraliaLabels: Going Bush. |
| posted by Laketrade @ 7:04 AM |
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Camp Fire
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
TEMPLE FIRE: This hearth consists of a raised platform, built of green timber. Four uprights support cross- pieces in their forks. Across them place a layer of g reen logs and cover this with several inches of earth. Light the fire on top of this. A po le across upper forks on diagonally opposite uprights can support cooking pots.
IN WINDY CONDITIONS:If there are particularly strong winds, dig a trench and light your fire in it.Also good for windy conditions: encircle your fire with rocks to retain heat and conserve fuel. Use them to support cooking utensils. Their heat, as well as that from the fire will keep things warm and you can use the rocks themselves as bed warmer.
Slate and shale have air pockets that when heated, turn into grenades.Fire should be contained to a small area with cleared surroundings of approx 2 m fire place will vary depending on use, Heating, cooking etcWind direction, shelters location and storage of wood should all be part of the consideration for the fires location and purpose.  More: Labels: be prepaired, fire place, shelters location and storage., windy conditions |
| posted by Laketrade @ 10:28 PM |
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AUSTRALIA
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
 Australia's natural beauty in all its stunning diversity. Whether photographs of dry outback or breathtaking coastline, the lush woods of Tasmania or the rainforests and wildlife of the tropical north, these pictures reveal a landscape that offers beauty and diversity in spades. The cities scattered along Australia's coasts are also covered. Here is a portrait of a vast land of extremes that will be the perfect keepsake for any traveler.Australia
 Labels: Australia's natural, wildlife. |
| posted by Laketrade @ 6:31 AM |
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Needing or Wanting "Back to the basics"
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Monday, July 21, 2008 |
Humans as creatures that are driven by want. Everything we have achieved is because someone wanted something. Without that it’s just back to what we need. But getting what we need is called survival, rather than bush craft. Your mind is focused on just fulfilling your immediate and basic needs
Bushcraft is an altogether more stylish activity than mere survival - it’s about wanting rather than needing to be in the outdoors.
Frosty in the mornings. Clear skies at night, and warm sunshine during the day we couldn’t have asked for better medicine
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Labels: bushcraft, Needing or wanting, outdoors., Survival |
| posted by Laketrade @ 6:02 PM |
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High-n-Wild Mountain Adventure Courses.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
 Abseiling, canyoning, bush skills courses, rock climbing and mountaineering.
Learn with the bush survival specialists: navigation, bush walking,bush foods and medicine plants,Leather crafts, bush cooking, fire lighting, water conservation, survival shelters, hunting & trapping, rescue sign alling, survival psychology.
For More:Labels: bush skills, bush walking, Canyoning, Medicines.Leather crafts, rock climbing, survival specialists |
| posted by Laketrade @ 6:36 PM |
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Outdoor adventure, Bushcraft, Survival, This has the lot, Count me in.
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Friday, July 18, 2008 |
Adventure into the Unknown! in pursuit of gold, raw diamonds, sunken galleons,
ancient tunnels, lost cities, meteors, unexplained mysteries,buried treasure.
Here's the chance to leave the rat race behind, live a life of adventure and freedom plus earn a g ood living at the same time. If you didn't have to go to work everyday and would like to travel anywhere in the world to discover gold, ancient treasure or a lost city, where would you want to go and what would you hunt for?
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| posted by Laketrade @ 3:15 AM |
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The Great Dividing Range "Eastern Highlands"
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
The Great Di viding Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range. The range stretches more than 3500km from the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west, before finally fading into the central plain at the Grampians in western Victoria. The Great Dividing Range starts north east of Melbourne and heads east to  the New South Wales border. The pretty alpine country offers a wide variety of activites from bushwalking and fishing, to rock climbing and skiing. Whatever time of year it is you should make sure you have a variety of supplies as temperatures can quickly change. Labels: Australia's, bushwalking, Grampians, Melbourne, mountain range, New South Wales, Queensland, temperatures can quickly change., Victoria |
| posted by Laketrade @ 7:30 PM |
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"Be prepared" For Changes in Weather and Nature.
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Friday, July 11, 2008 |
The basics of bush craft cover, how to prepare your self for fast changes in what mother nature and weather can deliver.
Wind,Water and Fire are elements that can be destructive if not harnessed.
Wind can be re-directed by placing a solid obstacle in its path or even down graded by placing partial screens in its path.
 Water can be re directed with gravity directional flow,harnessing the volume and trenching.
Fire has the ability to be controlled by its size and location.
Bush Craft covers many topics depending on the individuals circumstances in the bush.
Shelter and fire would be in the top 5.For more:
Labels: A bush shelter, bush craft, fire place, Shelter and fire, Water and Fire, Wind |
| posted by onecarat @ 3:54 PM |
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purposes.In these times, when things rise in price almost daily, all these ideas on how to make the best of anything handy makes good sense...as well as giving the 
