Casterton is the quintessential Australian country town. Its wide main street is lined by a variety of shops with many still boasting sheltering verandas. Built on both sides of the Glenelg River valley with a sturdy bridge spanning this relatively small stream and connecting both sides of the town this is the central service town […]
Campsite Reports
Dandry Gorge Free Campsite
Dandry Gorge, NSW 72km north of Coonabarabran Recognised as one of the iconic landscapes of inland Australia, the Pilliga Forest, north of Coonabarabran in New South Wales, is in fact, the largest forest in the state west of the Great Divide. Tucked away almost in the centre of this isolated forest which spreads over 500,000 […]
Parolas Bend
Here is a surprising little paradise for campers, kayakers and fishing folk in Victoria’s central north Occasionally a place can really take you by surprise. I’d driven past this spot at the bottom end of the Ovens River on numerous occasions in the past and just assumed the camping would be much the same as […]
Emu Beach Holiday Park
405km south of Perth Albany, with its dramatic coastal scenery, has always been on everyone’s must see list. Now that the view across King George Sound is also imbued with the sadness and heroism of the World War I Gallipoli landing, it has become an even more popular tourist destination. November 2014 saw the opening […]
Boulder Creek Campsite
A free campsite which can be used as a base to explore the Mackay Region in Queensland When travelling north or south during the winter months on the “grey nomad stimulus package” my wife and I are always on the lookout for a free campsite. Around Mackay these campsites are few and far between but […]
