Jacks lunchbar Traditional Cache
Rogmantosh: got too involved in the game and have lost the passion. Cache is still on location if someone wants to have it
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This area is close to the Tanning pit used by the Jack brothers in the early 1900's.
In fact it's a mere 200 meter walk north to the pit itself which now seems to be used as a weekend fire pit.
From here you also have a great view of HMAS Otama
A bit of info...
John Alexander Jack purchased land at what is now known as Jacks Beach in 1908. He and his wife moved there from Seymour, north of Melbourne. They had 14 children including twins Leslie (Blinker) and Hector (Biddy) who became fishermen in Western Port Bay. The brothers erected a rough timber jetty at Jacks Beach where their boats were moored. They also built the tanning pit to soak their nets, twine, rope and chord fishing lines to preserve them. The pit is built up as a mound and lined internally with cement.
There is a plaque on the pit which says ‘This trough was used by the twin brothers Blinker and Biddy Jack to tan their fishing nets and lines which were made of cotton. Tanning was dome by boiling wattle bark before soaking the nets in the boiled mixture. The Jack family lived at the entrance to this reserve at the turn of the century.’
The process of tanning was done by firstly stripping bark from the wattle tree. The bark was then dried and boiled in drums of water over fires on the beach. The liquid from the drums was poured into the pit and the fishing nets and ropes were placed in the pit to soak up the brown liquid. The nets were then strung out along the jetty to dry. This was done every year to keep the equipment in good order.
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