Camping in a Cave with campfire cooking

um hello again everyone and happy halloween this year in good tradition i've come to a spooky place and i'm at a cave with me behind the camera here is simon you all know mr bloke in the woods and um yeah we're doing a night in this uh old cave house um it's got quite a history attached to it which i'll go over it a bit but um yeah we've had highwaymen here in all sorts so maybe we'll catch some ghosts on the trail camera later but uh for now yeah we're just gonna get tidied up clear some of these rocks away and just uh make some room for camp yeah out there you might hear some bees in the background there's masonry bees in here and they're kind of tunneling into the sandstone the soft sandstone for kind of laying eggs and whatnot but uh now we've cleared up a bit we're not tripping over ourselves or over any kind of stones or anything this is the inside of the cave house there's a natural sandstone cave and this side would have been what was used in 16th century highwayman etc but was later formed into a cave house and you can see tooling marks along the walls where bits have been uh chipped away behind me here is where the fireplace would have been with an area above which we've been told was used with like a tin bar for heating the water and bathing the children scattered around the walls of the cave or alcoves which have been carved out for storage and for candles for lighting we'll be using them tonight but um it's a beautiful place we're very lucky to be here this is a private estate which is why this has been preserved so well no one else can get here the last family that lived here around 1890 they moved out into a shepherd's hut that's still here and it was a family of five living in this tiny cave there's a small extension built on the cave to the side here which the uh the family pig would have been kept in it's just got a natural sandstone walls and some sandstone blocks which have been uh made from the sandstone on site here you can see the remains of someone's dinner down here as well quite a few bird bones you can see we're in the extension area of the cave house now so there's no roof though there is the remains of it you can see the tooling marks in the natural sandstone walls and you may even just about see the sandstone blocks that have been made with hand tools to have an extra level on top here i've got a fireplace to my left here which still has the remains of a chimney as well gradually being reclaimed by nature i'm gonna mix up tasks a bit simon's gonna do a bit of leveling in the cave here i'm going to uh take my bloke in the woods saw and start on fire with the irony bloking the wood saw you can't get them so [Music] so i've decided it's time we need a brew so i've got this new grill because it's so flat and light i thought i'd bring it it's called a pico grill and they're from uh switzerland so to get off their website better check that out whoa it's just nothing to it so yeah i'll set this up and we'll get a brew on so you have to do this is take out the trivet you squeeze it together and just the little tray should fall down and that locks in there and there and your trivet will go from end to end like so i do like burning in a new stove [Music] lovely thank you mates beautiful got quite a lot of soft wood so i could do some hardwood really for some nice coals and there's some nice oak up here this is on top of the cave [Music] so so so so there lovely it's just time to like the lanterns now we've got the candles done nope what a place it does look nicely out yeah it does i didn't realize you'd set up your beers it should be the fallen beers that over a bit plop so [Music] so the chicken is browned i've got a load of baby potatoes and little tiny carrots they've got a name i can't remember what they are andy baby carrots they've got a name chantilly no that's cream something anyways they're little carrots so they're all going in and the celery and the onion and we've got one of them little bottles of wine [Music] chicken stock cubes one two and then i'm gonna top that up with water well as per normal we've decided to do a meal each like we do on a lot of trips and simon has got her dinner and i've got breakfast which i think is the reverse of the last one i think so i can't really remember i think you did um was it kidneys no that was that was down the woodland i was one before oh yes yeah well we mixed in the other one he's got the pressure cooker which he had in his pack which probably took up a bulk of the room whole chicken as you saw went in and some veg and some wine and some stock and beauty of this is this could take what half hour you say yeah it's about 20 minutes to cook and then you take it off and let it cool down and let the pressure yeah the pressure come out of it naturally takes about another 15 minutes so of half an hour like the third of the time they usually don't cook a chicken exactly yeah yeah yeah we are hungry everything's locked in all the flavors are all locked in as well so you get all of you get the benefit of all the flavors nothing's lost well very kindly um george rachel and finley kind of organized this for us with the estates we could be on here so cheers to you guys they also gave us these ridiculous one liter beer cans which make us look like little tiny people [Laughter] they're cool aren't they they are amazing they're brilliant i've never seen anything like it viking beer they're personal keggers yeah so yeah cheers guys thank you very much yeah thank you what a spot yeah isn't it opportunity just rare isn't it uh rare to have an opportunity to come and do something like this it's better than the last cake yeah yeah yeah yeah amazing oh the smell let's see if i can get this out of here let's get a break try that way i think we lost some wings and legs right there uh the chicken's sitting in my plate at the moment so i'm just gonna um i don't know cut it in half let's cut rest resting a leg off and put the rest back in the pot temporarily i don't know i'll tell you what that is that is cooked that was 20 minutes of cooking time and resting time that is unreal look at that actually that is juicy and tender as you like stop squeezing my breast [Laughter] a little bit of thigh with your breath oh yeah yeah yeah um no no you'll have to wait for your wing it's still in the pot don't be hungry i am all right try and get some veggies out of here veggies well you know garnish oh you've got a bit of wing there ain't nothing like a chicken wing a bone and i think probably just pouring that that fire is really hot and burning perfect this is absolutely lovely i just can't believe 20 minutes for a big chicken it's quite a big chicken well absolutely brilliant a little bit to carry but it comes out absolutely well it is good we were both so hungry as well we needed this just as well you had that pressure cooker yeah i wouldn't have fancy waiting an hour and a half for dinner no i was well ready yeah it's just come out well it didn't even have very big fire did we that's the beauty about them you hardly need any fuel really you know heats up quick and holds it all in heat up quick yeah oh that's quite a hot we've just been sat by the campfire here just chatting away and appreciating the cave really it's just such a lovely spot and it's such a quiet woodland middle of nowhere really yeah it's gorgeous it's just really reflecting the heat from this fire as well is you wouldn't even know it's autumn really would you no no lovely well still on the t-shirt yeah it's it's gorgeous it's not even been a particularly big fire it's like a big reflector in there i think we'll do all right now babies tonight yeah yeah for sure yeah just had a beer and a chat and just chilling it's been a little while now it has been yeah are you pro darn it yeah it's gotta be about yeah 8 reckon yeah so yeah i've been a little while long enough for sure there's still bees buzzing about you know yeah the odd one i think we're smoking them out here and they're smoking about their holes yeah well we're just back from the walking down to the water garden down the bottom there which is quite eerie at night with the trail camera set up so we'll see what we get in the morning and uh it's time for us to set up as we haven't already we don't want to be tripping over all our gear and we've both gone with bivvy bags i've got the snug pack one what baby you got simon uh snug packing it up yeah so yeah we'll just get this set up and get ourselves off for the night [Applause] [Applause] uh my axe replacement for camps like this you don't have to bring it actually don't need too many small bits the rain's either slowed right down or it's just was coming out the trees now which is nice they've got these lovely bits of oak on here now to give you some lovely coals because i'm doing some um biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast for us i've got the dutch oven with me and the simon's gloves drying out because he left them out in the rain i've got in this bag my pre-mix that i made for the biscuits the flour and baking powder etc so i'm just going to put that in a transient bowl just to mix up i should do a little extra all right that's the mix i'm just gonna add in some butter which could be colder to be honest but uh you have to make do sometimes it's time to slowly add in the milk and get that mixed together now all right so here's our mixture pray a generous amount for two of us i might just that's all right that's all extra secret debris [Music] just pat it down rather than roll it out i'll just cut some of these hmm start putting the biscuits in the dutch oven here just on some baking paper there all right i'll just leave that for a while and check on it five to ten minutes okay let's have a little look do you reckon look pretty done to me take them off i've already got a tiny bit of oil in there but i'm just going to put in the sausage meat [Music] just start sprinkling in flour make up kind of a roux pretty much with the oils from the sausage all right here we go but these are okay to handle so just stick them on the plate didn't rise too much but they're good and thick sausage gravy [Music] it looks divine it smells pretty nice didn't it um that's a little bit smoky in here where the wind's changed this morning but uh we've all eaten now so time to finish packing this stuff away so we can get going both for quite a long journey [Music] as the trail camera picked up you guys probably would have already seen what's on it from last night but uh i'm yet to see i'm gonna have a look when i get home maybe we've got something spooky incidentally where i put the troll camera was this um old water garden what was once a water garden and they streamed it back for us knowing we're coming to the estate today just so we could see it a bit like how it would have been and i'm sure all of these the terraces going up the hill to where the cave is and everything would have been all ornate gardens at some point on this estate but uh yeah i'm like it all overgrown and kind of reclaimed by nature but i thought this was quite a spooky spot for putting the camera right fish getting packed up and get out of here ah uh all right that is us done just the walk out now which isn't too bad to be honest but it's been a beautiful place to stay the night absolutely wonderful little cave well quite big cave actually and uh yeah thanks to simon he helped organize this with them thank you invited me along knowing i'd love a cave yeah so check out simon's take on it on the sign i'm bloking the woods channel and we'll see you guys on the next one wild stallions no no that would do parsley [Music] why am i getting smoke now which probably looks a bit silly but and uh yeah we'll see what the trail camera sets up now i'm doing it all right well uh i don't know to start this be here i'll stay here hello everyone [Laughter] get ourselves off for the night just get ourselves off for the night sound rude andy what are you doing come on moon where are you there you are right there

Channel: Kent Survival

Views: 293,308

Keywords: cave, camping, overnighter, bushcraft, halloween, ghot, haunted, kent survival, simon a bloke in the woods, outdoors

Id: s2Z-4AaX-KA

Length: 39min 28sec (2368 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021