OUR CARAVAN’s ON FIRE! Burnt Yards & Lake Lyell NSW

Another adventure exploring 3 new camping spots in NSW, two of which were free, but all wasn't what we had hoped for on our trip home. Our beloved Mothership caught fire and is now off the road literally for some time until our insurance assesses the damage due to cooked electricals.
As promised, my camp oven stew ingredients.
Fry 1 diced onion in oil, toss 500g diced beef in a plastic bag with 1/3 cup of seasoned plain flour to coat. Add beef to onion and fry briefly to seal, then throw in 1 can of diced tomatoes, 1 can of baby potatoes (liquid and all), thinly diced carrots, chucky zucchini, chunky capsicum pieces (red's our favourite) and any other vegetables you may have on hand. You may need to add an extra cup of water depending on how many vegetables you include. Finally add the herbs and spices, 1 tablespoon of sweet paprika, 1 tablespoon cumin, chilli flakes, 1 teaspoon of beef stock, fresh thyme removed from the sprig, salt & pepper. Cook with hot coals on top and bottom of your camp oven until you can smell your stew and see steam coming from the sides of the lid. Give it a stir to distribute head and check carrots are cooked. We served ours with a nice piece of buttered bread and used the leftovers to make jaffles for lunch. So easy and delicious!
TIP: Use another vessel inside your camp oven to keep it clean ie. foil tray.

[@user-xc2eb9ql8n]

Boy you two live life on the edge literally! 🫣

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

@@user-xc2eb9ql8n haha so true at times.

[@Alan-ok3pw]

enjoying your videos ,they are well done .Thank you

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Thank you Alan, really appreciate that. Making our road trip videos is all part of the fun when we get to go camping.

[@skier828]

Love your videos. That fire was very scary to watch, really need to assess the fire extinguishers in our set up ..I hope it gets all sorted out quickly for you and you're back on the road again.

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Hi, thanks for stopping by to leave a comment. We missed the caravan for a few months but thankfully got it back right for Xmas at the time. Many more videos made since this one and our caravan is better than ever. So important to have a fire extinguisher easily accessible, we now have one in our 4WD.

[@sarahexplorer9318]

Great vid 😊

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Oh this is one of my favourites. It was a little hairy getting in and out of that first spot.

[@georginawoodford228]

Good thing he likes a challenge i bogged the ute there.

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Yeah we could of ended up in a pickle but thankfully we got out ok.

[@brontemaybury7620]

And another great camping video very lucky on that muddy track 👍 fields of yellow looked nice, another great cook up 👏 I hope everything is OK with your van 🤞 be safe. 🥂🍻

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Good on you Bronte, thanks so much for leaving a comment, it's always nice to know who's watching and we appreciate you alway's giving us such positive feedback. It was a wonderful break away discovering some new camping spots but, unfortunately, we may be off the road for a while. We were extremely lucky that Steve noticed the smoke when he did and that we had a fire extinguisher, as we had flames taking off under our bed. I always thought he was hot stuff but that's ridiculous! 😂

[@jimmyintel]

Great video thanks for sharing and fingers crossed you got the van all sorted glad you caught it early enough

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Thanks, so are we, any later and we would have had an inferno behind our cruiser. So grateful we had the fire extinguisher easily accessible because that’s also what saved our van from taking off.

[@babyboomersdownunder]

Hope you get the electrical system sorted so you can continue on your travels. Stay safe.

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Thank you Steffanie, we have everything crossed to get our van back on the road and hopefully will find out soon what is required and how much.

[@theresehowes7282]

Great job getting onto Baker's Shaft. There's an easier road in but yours was more exciting! Have just discovered your KZbin and thoroughly enjoying each no BS episodes. We're gradually working thru to catch up. Love the cooking sessions! Keep up the great work. And happy travels!

[@placestosea]

bad news about the fire. I know the feeling. hopefully you can get 'correct' fuses etc in the rebuild.

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Oh do you think it could have been the fuses? We are yet to hear if they’ve worked out what started it.

[@placestosea]

@@gibbosroadtripadventures do you have your 3 way fridge connected via the 12 pin plug on the vehicle? Was the fridge working while driving?

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

@@placestosea we do have a 3 way fridge but it’s charged via the caravan batteries.

[@annemaher4635]

Oh no!!! What’s news? Nothing like the Gibbo’s to have Beds are Burning but it’s meant to be coming from the sound system!!

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

I know, it was a big shock and quite frightening.

[@crackatinny]

Is there a follow up video on the fire?

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

Go back through our videos and search for Yorke Peninsula SA Part 1

[@malikkhalid6787]

💐🌺🥀🌹🌷🙋🤝 very nice jee video hallo jee

[@CarlHudsonAUS]

Reading out that a camp is a dry-zone then drinking alcohol there, what's up with that? 🤨

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

That notice board is for the mines, not the camping.

[@CarlHudsonAUS]

@@gibbosroadtripadventures ah ok, thanks for the clarification :)

[@johnburke6332]

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD!!

[@gibbosroadtripadventures]

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[@johnburke6332]

@@gibbosroadtripadventures Regulars at Lake Lyell often play "Relax!" by FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD when leaving or arriving at the recreation park as a tip of the hat to the manager, who is a die-hard fan of the band.

[@thekanootson1906]

@@johnburke6332 100% I was there on New Year's and he was wearing a t-shirt that read FRANKIE SAYS RELAX!