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Novacaptain
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I warn you that some of these pictures are quite nasty...if you have a problem with meat-based food preparation that is.
This easter i had planned on sitting at home doing nothing while my school-free time slipped away. I had also planned on getting slightly depressed from being lonely and miserable. However, things don't always go as planned. 3 days of everything-as-planned boredom had passed when i decided to give my friend Carla a call to see how she was doing, perhaps i had hope that she had any ideas of how to stray away from my tedious holiday plan.
"Wanna go camping?" - she said halfway through the conversation.
"sure thing, where to?" - i replied, almost instantly.
"tabuleiro" - she informed and added: "close to conceicao do mato dentro".
Great, my previous plans were now obrliterated: i was going camping!
We went to the bus station to get bus tickets with one more happy camper called "Rocky". With tickets in hand i remember that i actually have a car and a driver's licence too...i point this out to them as we step out of the bus station. We roughly do the math to find the gasoline cost divided by five people to find that going by car is not only faster and more practical...it's also a hell of a lot cheaper...we refund our tickets right away.
The following day we set off
Day 00: Able driver Novacaptain picks people up at their doorstep and drives away to an ecological paradise
This is what the countryside looked like half of the timer...endless rolling hills.
This is what the other half looked like (dirt road = poor car)
We reached the campsite at about 20:30 and it was already dark. With some help from Carla's friends that went by bus the day before we set up two tents quickly (one for sleeping and one for stashing our luggage in). We struck up a good deal with the campsite owner and stayed there quite inexpensively.
Day 01: we go trekking over some hills, upstream a river and reach a large waterfall. We swim, freeze a little and have a good time sitting on a very large rock telling eachother some stories. I'm too chicken to take the camera along because it's not waterproof.
injuries: 1 scraped and bruised shin and 1 wooden splinter in my right hand.
i see a spider!
There it is again! This one isn't too large but i saw some earlier on this day that were larger than my face...kinda reminded me of that movie - "Aliens". The spiders aren't really dangerous and as soon as you get close they scurry off in haste.
Day 02:
*yawn* Good morning...what the heck? where did all those tents come from?! The number of campers almost doubled during the night.
let's go adventuring!
Holy cow Rocky! That ninja spider is flying! oh wait...it's in a web. I have no idea if it's poisonous or not but it sure looks nice. *snapshot*
We set off to a place further down the river where the water forms a small lagoon with some fun rocks. Great place to swim...natural trampolines and some hollowed out rocks with interconnecting tunnels to swim (or drown?) in.
We walk down this nice little path and after about 10 minutes...
The lagoon!
Another spider...i just love these things...they look so cool...from a safe distance.
This one is nice too...There are a lot bigger and brighter butterflies but this one was the only one that would sit still long enough to get its picture taken.
On our way back we see one of the guys called Isaac, who was camping with us, standing triumphantly with two chickens hanging by the feet in his hand. At a closer look i see that they're still quite alive.
"What's that?" - I ask.
"Chicken" - he replies merrily.
"I can see that it's a chicken but why do you have it hanging by the feet?" - I question.
"Because otherwise it would run away, ya nut!" - Isaac says and explains that he's going to turn this chicken into the chickens we see in the supermarket.
I have to get pictures of that!
The chickens costed R$ 5,00 each and he got them at one of the small farmhouses along the way.
How to prepare a feral chicken the boyscout way
Requirements:
Chicken
Sharp knife
Skillz
Hunger
Hold it by one leg and encourage it to flee. This makes it exercise itself, heating the blood up and irrigating the muscles.
You can also shake it up in the air to make it flap its wings.
Enough exercising, get the knife.
Using the knife, pull out the feathers on the chest. You'll see why later.
Ok chicken. Your suffering ends here.
Hold the head and body and separate them with the knife.
Headless chickens move quite a lot, so stand on its feet and hold it down. Stab it where you removed the feathers (it's already dead).
Stick your hands into the stab wound and pull the skin off (if you don't make it exercise first the skin will be totally stuck to the muscles and you have to boil it to get it off)
Pull
Tear
Rip
Tug
Yank
Stretch
Play morbid games with your food? Perhaps not :p
Wash some feathers and dirt off
Get it clean
Clean it some more and cut of the tips of the wings (where the skin got stuck) and the feet.
The stuff that is left over goes into a plastic bag.
Hmm...there's un-eatable stuff inside the chicken too!
Open it up with the knife and remove the insides - quite an anatomy lesson.
There's a bright blue gland next to the liver full with bile that you have to be extra-careful with because it will spoil the meat completely if ruptured.
trim off more pieces that you deem inedible.
There you have it - just like in the supermarket.
Add spices and fire for about 2 hours and then you can eat it. Tastes great but the meat is really tough. Feral chickens are tough.
Injuries: Blister on right hand from chopping wood with a machete. Minor wound on chin from hitting myself with a wooden log by accident.
Day 03: Pack up and go home
Over the hills and far away.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:11 am |
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looks like you had fun.
are those undigested corn seeds inside the bird's stomach? |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:43 am |
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FATALITY!
Man, this is the antithesis of the veganism thread.
Thanks for sharing.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 9:05 am |
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| ooo you can share this with the vegan thread sijun had a few weeks back. YUM! |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 10:03 am |
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nice pictures there really nice enviremont.
although the chicken was a bit str�ng� that previous quoted picture is funny tho.
-david
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:22 pm |
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WOW!
That chicken thing - whoa - heavy, man
That was awesome
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:51 pm |
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yes that's corn... you can see the food sac where the chicken keeps all the stuff before swallowing it in one of the pictures (it doesn't really swallow all that food it peckers right away)
FATALITY indeed.
Rocky took some more pictures with his camera...some really nice ones from the day at the waterfall.
Walking 6 km to the fall
 The broken heart...it's larger than it seems (the fall itself is over 200 meters)
again...it is truly a beautiful thing to see.
 That's me...to get to the fall you have to go upstream for a while (i'm not wearing the swimsuit by the way)
 The rolling hills again..nice to look at but tiresome to walk over
At the lagoon:
The same forest trail (i'm the one on the far right)
Chickenslayer Isaac at the top of a rock with Telena
The rocks those big holes are connected by short tunnels at the bottom at about 2 meter's depth.
Going home:
The gang posed in front of able driver Novacaptain's car
The road ahead...
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 6:14 pm |
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I learned quite a lot from the chicken-photos. Although disgusting, i find this knowledge useful 
However i can't see any photos from the next bunch of photos posted. WHAT!!?!? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:41 am |
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Sweet stuff my Captain!
I totally love the educational content on Chicken, but Brazil seems to have too much too darn big spiders for me to feel safe! Altough I�m sure I could make some great macro shots of those things  |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:08 am |
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"Allways look on the bright side of life .. dee doo, dee doo deedooo deedoo."
Oh and i cant see the next bunch of photos posted as well
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:54 am |
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I SEE CORN! |
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 7:35 pm |
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those are lego man heads
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 9:41 am |
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Way ta treat a chick!
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 4:12 pm |
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| always wanted to know how Brazil looked like..beautiful country you got there |
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