DUE NORTH

TODAY WE ARE travelling 150 kilometres north of Karumba (about two hours on dirt roads) to the Gulf Coast Agricultural Co. Combining four stations (Inkerman, Dorunda, Van Rook and Stirling Lotus Vale), this extensive property covers more than a million hectares of the Cape York Peninsula and 90 kilometres of coastline along the Gulf of Carpentaria, and runs more than 100,000 pure Brahman cattle. This is where I’ve arranged to meet up and hang out with like-minded chefs Mark LaBrooy, Lennox Hastie, Paul Carmichael, Beau Clugston and David Moyle, all flying in tomorrow. The general idea is to sleep under the stars for a few days, and to eat only what we gather in terms of wild ingredients each day.

The next day we greet the guys on Van Rook’s dusty airstrip and walk over to the homestead