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THOMSON STATE FOREST

This year we attended the annual Victorian Gathering which is organised on the 4x4earth website and located at O’Toole’s Flat campground in Thomson State Forest. The gathering is largely a social event, however, if you look beyond the gathering there…

The Gawler Ranges

Mention the Gawler Ranges to most people and you tend to get a blank stare back at you. I’ve been visiting this area and including it on various Outback itineraries for a few years now and I reckon it’s a…

THE VICTORIAN HIGH COUNTRY RUN

What happens when you let a forum full of avid four-wheel drivers loose in the High Country? A full-on adventure, that’s what!   Every year for the last eight years a group of Victorians from the website 4x4earth.com have organised…

BAY OF FIRES

To say I am a dedicated four-wheel driver would have to be an understatement. There are not too many off-road tracks in this country that I haven’t explored – and with 20 Simpson Desert crossings under my belt, the thought…

BRIBIE ISLAND, QLD

  I watched from a sand dune as my children played below – the beach quiet and empty, the ocean clear and calm. The bright morning sunlight glowed in their shiny hair. They dug holes, built walls and were peacefully…

THE PLENTY HIGHWAY

There’s heaps to see and do on the Boulia to Alice Springs short-cut.   FACT FILE   WHERE: 498km from Tobermorey Station just inside NT, from the NT/Qld border to the Stuart Highway, north of Alice Springs. INFORMATION: Access from the…

SUZUKI ACROSS THE SIMPSON

  Two-stroke fuel wafted across the red sand dunes as the wind blew fumes back into the cabin of the LJ50 Suzuki, giving its occupants an oily pungent smell that stuck to their clothing and any exposed skin. The little Suzi…

SUNDOWN NATIONAL PARK, QLD

    Before Sundown became a National Park, it was a collection of leaseholds for sheep grazing. On their days off, the locals used to take 10 hours on a tractor towing a trailer to travel the 20km in to…