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Kangaroo Creek Survival School

Locality: Kangaroo Creek, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 401 291 306

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25.01.2022 Lerp specific to ficus macrophylla (Morton Bay fig) Lerps eat the sugars from leaves and exude these funky little houses as shelter. Looks disgusting but tastes AMAZING! Sweet and sherbety. YUM. (make sure it's not bird shit...)

25.01.2022 Check out this old canoe tree. Its about 1km upstream from my place and was cut out using stone axes. The top part was unfortunately lost in the last flood. There are lots of coolamon trees near me too. Apart from paintings these trees are the most obvious evidence of Gumbainga occupation. What does this say about us?

24.01.2022 Wombat Berries, Eustrephus latifolius. In fruit, edible white pith (spit the seeds) and lots of sweetish edible roots which are good raw but better cooked. Always leave a few so the plant can survive. There are 1000's of these at Kangaroo Creek and would have been a staple food for the Gumbainga people.

24.01.2022 Custard Apple Rare to find them ripe as the native critters like to eat them first... but if you're lucky enough to find one ripe they are bloody delicious!

23.01.2022 Check out how much nectar is on this grass tree flower. I followed a honeyeater through the bush checking out what he was eating and he led me to this bounty.

22.01.2022 The next School will be held from the 17 through 19 March. Being so close to the autumn equinox we have an awesome opportunity to get our navigation techniques down pat. The moon will be four days past full which means we can get some dark sky astronomy done then have good moonlight to do our nocturnal activities. The days are still warm and the nights will be bloody glorious!! Lots of bush tucker this time of year and the bass are actively surface feeding too!! This is THE best time of the year to come to Kangaroo Creek...book NOW or you WILL miss out !!!!

21.01.2022 The next school will be this coming Friday 16 Dec through to Sunday 18 Dec. The weather will be hot during the day and pleasantly cool of an evening, perfect for astronomy. The recent rain means we will have ample water up in the sandstone country and the fish should be going NUTS!! We will harvest an eel this trip and smoke it over the fire, plus the usual shenanigans that is Kangaroo Creek Survival School. There are still a couple of places to fill with your name on it!

20.01.2022 Tomorrow’s full moon falls on the winter solstice. The sun will rise 23.5 degrees north of the equator, and will be the shortest day of the year. The moon will be at it’s fullest at 9.33pm on the 23rd and will be what is known as a super moon. This means that the moon is a little closer to the Earth in its cycle and therefore makes its look a little bigger. It will rise at about 5pm, in the constellation of Capricorn- watch it rise against the horizon and it will look huge.

16.01.2022 The next school will be from Friday 10th through 14th January. The fish will be biting and the weather will be hot by day and perfect by night. Great time of year to learn about hot weather survival technics and water finding will be a real challenge. Book early as its bloody busy this time of year.....

16.01.2022 Soooo.. for the first time in a couple of years i have a couple of vacancies for the upcoming school. This one is a two nighter including all the usual shennanigans, just less walking and canoeing so we can fit it all in. Check out cockatooapaul dot com for more info. This school costs $260. Book that bad boy...you know you want to!

14.01.2022 Who said centipedes dont make good mothers? This variety doesnt hurt too much when they bite but beware of the big yellow ones with green legs...those bad boys can pack a real punch. You wont die but it will ruin your afternoon.

14.01.2022 Kurrajong Edible seeds after careful removal of the irritant hairs. Leaves for toilet paper, bark for string, strong lightweight wood, water from the trunk and roots, and the roots from young plants are edible and delicious.

11.01.2022 This is what happens when your pot belly gets too hot!. That is termite treated wood, the smoke nearly made me pass out. I now have a fire shield.

09.01.2022 The next school will commence on the 18th to 22nd of September. The weather should be perfect as always and the bass should start to be active. Its also equinox time so we will have fun with our astronomy nights. We may see fire flies too!! Check out cockatoopaul.com for more info.....see you there.

09.01.2022 Laurence the Legend. Master wood chopper, tipi fire feeder, canoe captain, and all round good guy.

08.01.2022 Sandpaper fig Ficus coronata Edible fruit, string from the bark, fire sticks from the straight stems, glue from the sap (also useful for ringworm treatment) and the leaves make excellent sandpaper. I clean the spark plugs on my car with it.

06.01.2022 Yay! The next school will be held on friday 23rd of August. Beautiful days with cool nights. Been very dry so our water finding skills will need to be spot on this trip. LOTS of wildflowers this time of year and the river is low and clear. Full moon on wednesday means our astronomy activites will be early to take advantage of dark skies. Its going to be a ripper! 3 places left....

06.01.2022 We are harvesting the sweet nectar from callistemon flowers. All of the "bottle brush" style flowers can have nectar and this variety is bloody awesome! The new growth can be dried and used as a non caffiene tea.

06.01.2022 Cool little wolf spider on chickweed. It is edible and medicinal, you can tell its chickweed because it has a line of hair on ONE side of the stem. The spider is edible too but too cute to munch on.

03.01.2022 Gabriel fine tuning her hand throwing technique.

02.01.2022 The happy campers harvesting sweet, sweet nectar. Don't take too many flowers or you wont get any yummy fruits later in the year.

01.01.2022 Had a great survival camp this weekend. This is the happy campers with the spears. Gabriel, Carla, Manu, Lilly, Helen, & Laurence.

01.01.2022 This is an acacia gall. You can eat the tiny wasp larvae in the middle but the woody part is extremely astringent. These galls get huge on bloodwood trees in the desert, have edible pith and contain about a spoonful of sweetish liquid too hence the name bush coconut.