Bushcraft Bucket List - suggestions

[Bishop]

Dressing up as a Bulgarian Kukeri in a nature reserve and hiding badly behind a tree when people come along..

 

[wookii]

Great idea for a thread!

 

[Broch]

Great idea for a thread!

Are they related?
(to a Wookii that is)

 

[Billy-o]

Coracles. Having a go in a Coracle. That's my aim. Mind, I doubt there's such a thing here, so may have to build the thing myself.

 

[wookii]

I'd love to build a coracle.
Also... make a birch canoe, build a cobb house, own some woodland, camp alone for at least a week, learn to carve a spoon I'm proud of.... get a job where I'm not stuck indoors behind a computer..

 

[forrestdweller]

Dressing up as a Bulgarian Kukeri in a nature reserve and hiding badly behind a tree when people come along..
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reminds me of "cousin it" from "Addams Family" ...

 

[punkrockcaveman]

Kayaking to and bivvying on Priest Island out of Ullapool for me. Read a book on the place once, it got me hooked on the Scottish Islands.

 

[Tengu]

Fraser Darling?

You are lucky, I ended upon North Rona.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

Fraser Darling?

You are lucky, I ended upon North Rona.

That's the one!

 

[henchy3rd]

Coracles. Having a go in a Coracle. That's my aim. Mind, I doubt there's such a thing here, so may have to build the thing myself.

I’ve always fancied a coracle, to Paddle back to a pre dawn era & learn the old ways.

 

[Broch]

I’ve always fancied a coracle, to Paddle back to a pre dawn era & learn the old ways.

For one of our camps here (pre Covid) we were going to have a 'coracle build' competition - hazel and tarp materials. I'd arranged for us to try them out on a small lake about a km from the camp so we'd have had to lug them on our back in traditional fashion. Unfortunately, the weather turned foul that weekend (high winds) so it was cancelled and then Covid happened

 

[Tengu]

But Priest Island sounds worth a visit too; odd that it has little human activity.

Few Islands are devoid of folk.

Generally means they have nothing of interest.

Fraser Darling Makes Priest Island sound enticing.

(But his real favourite was North Rona as he said in interviews in later life)