Stocked up, fuelled up and psyched up, we were ready to launch up the Great Central Road (GCR), into the ‘Great Beyond’. Here’s how it unfolded. Day 1 (310km) out of Laverton wasn’t too bad, an unsealed road of fine gravel and soft, sandy corrugations, with a couple of attractions – the colourful Giles Breakaway […]
Inside A Remote Indigenous Island Community
Brimming with culture, history and art the Tiwi Islands are only a day trip from Darwin in Australia’s north. Australia has many incredible islands – Fraser, Kangaroo, Rottnest, Magnetic, Phillip, Lord Howe, among others. Most feature on bucket lists around the country, but here’s one more for your list: the Tiwi Islands. Located just 80-kilometres […]
10 Best Beaches for Summer Camping
Our sunburnt country is blessed with some of the best beaches in the world Where will you escape to this summer? Will you join the beachfront crowds at a popular holiday park close to home, or adventure far afield to that remote, pristine spot only you know about? When it comes to picking the best […]
Walking It’s A Great Way To See More
Australia is an extraordinary country that we are lucky to call home. The largest island and smallest continent on the planet, it so enthrals, educates, amazes and amuses that some of us can’t get enough of it. We travel countless kilometres a year by road and air (nothing beats a window seat view of the […]
Great Australian Horse Ride
In terms of national identity, Australia is a relatively young country. It wasn’t so long ago, in 1988, that we commemorated our official bicentenary, marking 200 years since Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Sydney Cove with the First Fleet of convict ships to found the British colony of New South Wales. The Australian Bicentenary was […]
