Beach Cookout

Today Room One and Eight went to Karoro Beach by the Tasman sea to do a beach
cookout. Some parents, Mrs Mclean and our teachers. In my group was Lily, Eamon,
My Dad (who was our supervisor) and me. We went on the third of April 2019 in Autumn.
We left school around 11am and got back about 1pm.

We had to build a pyramid shaped fire like shown on the New Zealand mountain website.  
To start of we cleared a space and put rocks in a circle around it. After we had done that we
collected collected lots man's beard, gorse, kindling and lots of bits of dry wood and sticks.  
To make our pyramid shaped fire we put the man's beard on the space where we had cleared
then put kindling on top. After we had done that we put some bigger bits of wood on.

Who needs a barbecue 

We had to come up with a two course meal (main and dessert).
My group made cheese and beef burgers and for dessert we made smores.
We had to keep to a budget to five dollars per person. My group only had $15 to spend.
Each person brought utensils, equipment and food from home.

To start the fire we set the man's beard alight.  After it was set alight we prepared out food.
When the fire had turned to embers and there were a few small flames we put on the hot plate
that I had bought from home.

Best Burgers 

First we put oil on our patties and cooked them. When they were almost cooked Lily char
grilled our burger buns. When the buns had finished we made an assembly line to build
our burgers. The burgers had cheese, two patties and beetroot. I think they tasted the best.

After everyone had finished their burgers we took the hot plate off and roasted our
marshmallows on the embers. This worked well because they didn't catch on fire and didn't
burn. When we thought our marshmallows were cooked we put it in between two chocolate
biscuits. These were yum but I liked the burgers better.

                                                                                                     

After we had packed up we put out the fire by putting on lots of water from Watson creek

then covering it with sand. When everyone's fire was out we gathered for a photo of
everyone. This was a very fun day.