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FIRE ACROSS THE TOP END
Australia’s tropical Outback is a place of outstandingly dramatic and contrasting seasons – the lush, rejuvenating monsoon season and the long parched ‘dry’ – each of which portrays the landscape so differently. The transition from almost fluorescent green grass…
6 Reasons You Need to Get to the Snow this Winter
Serious adventure… in a grown-up kind of way. Winter is right around the corner. Fireplaces are firing up and 4X4s are getting parked up until the weather improves. It’s a scene we all see year in and year out, and…
A little about Ranger Barry Lyon
Barry has worked as a ranger for over thirty years, mostly on remote national parks on Cape York, but also in Queensland’s wet tropics, far west, and Gulf Country. As a self-employed bush guide he also took people on small…
WHERE MADIGAN WENT, PLUS WHERE HE DIDN’T…
After two failed starts over five years, doing the Madigan Line was looking like the stars just weren’t going to line up and it would remain an unfulfilled dream. Then out of the blue, four XXXX cans lined up in…
ARE FORWARD-FOLD CAMPERS TAKING OVER?
We take the EzyTrail Stirling GT out for a weekend to see if this style of camper really is the way of the future. If you haven’t seen a forward-folding trailer before, you’re about to see something pretty impressive.…
KINKUNA: LIKE INSKIP (MINUS THE HOLES)
It is tough living in Brisbane where we are blessed with an almost embarrassing number of beach camping options. Double Island Point, Fraser Island, Moreton Island and Straddie are all only a decent cooee up, down or off the…
MAGNIFICENT MORETON ISLAND
Brisbane is blessed with some of the best beach camping and islands known to man, right on its doorstep. Straddie, Double Island, Inskip, Bribie, and the big daddy Fraser, are all million-star destinations. But our favourite is magnificent Moreton which…
6 Top Beach Camping Locations
Love camping? Of course you do! Fresh air, time with the fam (or without!) and just a great way to chill out and enjoy the great outdoors. Beach camping is still the most popular way to get away from it…
REVIEWED: ULTIMATE CAMPERS XTERRAN
Ultimate Campers are widely regarded for providing some of the premier products available on the camper trailer market – with good reason, too. The designs have always been eye-catching and the engineering behind the campers has been one of the…
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…
KIMBERLEY KARAVAN ECO SUITE SIGNATURE REVIEW
At first glance, the top-of-the-range 2016 Kimberley Karavan Eco Suite looks small for a caravan – in fact it’s so compact that you don’t need towing mirrors. We often equate caravan size to the number of creature comforts…
REVIEW: TRAVELANDER SLIDE-ON
Who said you need a camper trailer or caravan to camp in comfort? It’s no secret that the team here at Unsealed 4X4 are massive fans of slide-on campers. They allow you to tow a boat, or not tow…
REVIEWED: SKAMPER KAMPERS DINGO
Do you really get what you pay for with the Dingo from Skamper Kampers, or is it a case of just looking good on paper? The old saying ‘you get what pay for’ often rings true. From mobile phones…
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…
