Food that the diggers did not shoot for themselves (such as rabbits and kangaroos) came from the bigger cities. This is why it was so expensive. The small shop owners on the goldfields were in a position to buy in bulk and then charge extreme prices for their goods.
food and lollies
There were around 20,000 diggers in the ballarat goldfields in 1852
Mutton, Damper and Tea
They came to find gold or sell products.
To cream off the loot which they could intercept.
they hunted for food like duck, kangaroo etc
to look for employment opportunities
another name for the goldfields
There mustn't have been goldfields.
There was, of course, no refrigeration on the goldfields, and plenty of ants, flies and possums, so the Austalian miners had to come up with ingenious ways to protect their foodstuffs. one method was the Coolgardie safe. This was a meshed metal cage suspended from a tree branch or other high position, often covered with wet cloth such as hessian, so that when whatever minimal winds blew, it would cool the food inside slightly. Sometimes, food was kept in a wooden box with its legs set in water so that ants could not crawl up and damage the food.
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