A great camp kitchen

Plain Truth · Guru

A great camp kitchen

msg · Guru

Working? My mother would never have let hers be anything but mirror shined black. Not a speck of ash anywhere at any time.

Possum3 · Guru

I imagine it's a Shearing Shed kitchen - some of the big shed's cooks had two or three girls as trainees.

My Grandmother was a Shearer's cook during WW2 until about 1954 and cooked for most of the big western Qld sheds.

And yes, the stoves were blacked to a mirror shine.

Plain Truth · Guru

This is the Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre kitchen,

It runs 10 day programs for young people 14 - 18,they walkaway from all modern comforts,no phones, smokes, watches.

Back to nature in the Victorian High Country,they work on the farm together.

Fencing,growing food,working with wood and steel and wool. They go abseiling ,rafting then walk back to civilisation.

It is an offgrid property in a well known communication blackspot,in the Glen Valley area in Victoria. Call in if you go past.

Cupie · Guru

What a fantastic spot.

As a young person I sometimes camped in shearers quarters around Hebel in S Qld. or even down around New Angledool in NSW. With permission of course.

The beds were foldable iron pipe frames with loosely fitted sagging chain fence wire. Good with a sleeping bag and a few blankets on top. If you were lucky there would be an old wool bail & scraps of wool (pick off the dags before using) lying about for a mattress. If no wool scraps, dried grass was OK too.

There was always a camp kitchen, but never as salubrious or well kept as this one. But having grown up with wood stoves in our home kitchen we were able to get them pumping, great for cooking wild game .. Ducks, roo, rabbits & pig and ample hot water for bathing. Lots of aged mulga/gidgee fire wood about the place too.