A secluded camping and fishing destination gem in the Mimosa Rocks National Park on the south coast of NSW This hidden coastal hideaway is easy to miss being located well off the main coastal road and even further from the main Princes highway (route 1) but if you like a little seclusion and love your […]
Recreational Mecca
Very scenic, offering the opportunity to experience an array of wildlife, natural and historic features and an array of recreational activities If I had to describe Lake Eildon National Park in a single word it would be diversity. The park, more than any other I have seen (and I’ve been to scores of them across […]
Outback Oasis
Dry, dusty, and desolate are words that are routinely used to describe outback Queensland, but if you’re in the right place at the right time, the words oasis, waterhole, and secluded can be more appropriate. Toss ‘free’ into the mix, and you’ll come up with an accurate description of five of my favourite outback camping […]
Ghost Towns
Tasmania’s Forgotten Stories I find western Tasmania a fascinating place. It’s wild, rugged, feels 20 years behind much of mainland Australia and its landscape is littered with crumbling testaments to a bygone era. Ghost towns. Basing myself in the remarkably intact ghost town of Gormanston, I explored four other such places that lie scattered amongst […]
Beautiful Bruny
Fashioned by unimaginable heat and subterranean forces and polished by tide and time, the archway through which I step is an architectural statement in layered, upended dolerite. Behind me rises Mars Bluff, a great pile of rough stone bristling with coastal heath. Ahead, Moorina Bay’s turquoise water foams along a white beach washed clean of […]