After lockdown, learning survival skills in the bush

Learning Australian bush survival skills is becoming popular as city folk turn to nature with the easing of the country’s coronavirus lockdown, organizers of a course outside Sydney said. The bushcraft course teaches basic survival skills and offers insight into traditional Indigenous cultures. Course participants learn solar and celestial navigation, how to erect a shelter, build a fire and forage for edible plants, sometimes within a timed environment designed to emulate the pressure of a real survival situation. At least one participant found it was good to get away from the stress of supermarket runs. “I’m feeling like I’m detoxing a little from that sphere of the world,” said George Hamza. Australia has seen 102 deaths and 7,229 infections due to the coronavirus.