The Australian Camp Oven Festival officially begins at 9:00 AM with the Camp Oven Cooking Competition. The competition is rigorous and runs the entire weekend with
entrants competing for various sections. Like SECTION 1 - Event 1 DAMPER COOKING consisting of (a) Traditional Damper (Plain) (b) Damper (Savory or Sweet (c)
Brownie (Recipe 1) and (6 x Pufftaloons (what ever they are). The competition is open to any team that fancies themselves as Camp Oven cooks and is held every two years.
Click here (656 KB) for a PDF of the various sections (requires Adobe Acrobat reader), rules and contact details if you want to enter a team in the next
Australian Camp Oven cook off.
Novelty events over the weekend include Damper chucking (kids, women and men's divisions). Billy Boiling competition, where entrants
must light their fire and boil a given quantity of water in a traditional billy (first to boil is declared the heat winner).
Evening entertainment, Sunday
poet's breakfast, horse breaking demos, whip cracking etc. and the usual markets and the Millmerran Ute Show.
Click here (711 KB) for Camp Oven Festival program.
Over all a great weekend
with terrific entertainment on Saturday night and Sunday morning with the poets. Then the big exit on Sunday afternoon and Monday as every one packed up to head their different ways.
We, the R.V. Supertramp staying true to our motto will "Take the Long Way Home". We plan to
go from Millmerran down to the Granite Belt via Inglewood, Texas and cut across to Stanthorpe for a few days before turning south to Tenterfield (home of the
Tenterfield saddler) then take the Bruxner Highway to the coast to spend a week or so coming up the coast at Ballina, Lennox Head and Byron Bay.
Then it was over and we are back on the road. We will "Take the Long Way Home"..........
