The sunrise was stunning, with the clouds lit up in gorgeous reds, pinks and golds. As the group stood around in awe of Mother Nature, the sad fact dawned on the Aussie Outback Solar Challenge organisers that this would be…
For the full story CLICK HERE Writing about the Kimberley, it’s hard not to feel like a cliché factory. Ragged red mountain ranges, crystal clear waterholes, last frontiers – the whole shemozzle. But for the four-wheel drive tourer…
For the full story, CLICK HERE Binns Track is a touring route of over 2000km from Mt Dare in South Australia to Timber Creek in the Northern Territory. Named after ranger Bill Binns, the track traverses a variety of terrain…
For the full story in Unsealed 4X4 CLICK HERE Inside Australia – permanent sculpture exhibition: Lake Ballard – 51km West of Menzies WA Situated 130km North of Kalgoorlie, the region around the town of Menzies was better known for…
CAMERON CORNER STORE: FENN MILLER “It was our birthday celebration last weekend which saw a decent crowd. The weather has been a bit overcast, and rain is promised but we would be lucky to see any here. Would have been…
Places to go, people to see; that’s what four-wheel driving is all about. But there are ways to do it and rules to be observed, especially when we are on the road. Track cutting is one of the biggest beefs with…
A Perentie In The Australian Alps About halfway through my four-wheel drive adventure through the Australian Alps, it struck me that I wasn’t really driving the Perentie I was in. Rather I was tractor wrestling, as a veteran who used…
Stradbroke Fisherman’s Road Stray behind the sand dunes on North Stradbroke Island and you’ll discover Fisherman’s Road, also known as the number plate cruncher. It traverses through heathlands and marshlands, past lakes and lagoons and at times through some very…
Andrew is a music connoisseur and right now he is in the mood for something more serious and solemn. He pushes a CD of French-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma into the CD player in his 4X4: Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites fill…
With Youcamp you can boil your billy in a private paradise, dotcom entrepreneurs Prue and James Woodford tell Unsealed 4X4 A few years back, around a campfire, during summer holidays on the south coast of NSW, Youcamp.com was conceived. We…
One could be forgiven for thinking a thousand asps are hissing on the lower deck as we motor out from Brisbane across Moreton Bay. Instead, it’s those eager to hit Moreton Island, the third largest sand island in the world,…
The landscapes of Australia’s great bush poet, A.B. Paterson When we were looking for a name for the journalists’ room at Unsealed 4X4 HQ, all tracks wound back to Banjo Paterson (1864-1941). No man has done more to capture the…
The north-west of Victoria is – as far as tourism goes – no-man’s land. The world for most travellers ends at one of the state’s biggest icons, the Grampians. North of its sandstone mountains lies a world only visited by…
From 4X4 journalism to politics and lobbying, the passionate John Rooth loves getting into low gear for extra grunt Who is John Rooth? One time engineering student, high school history teacher, miner, bush mechanic, harvester driver and most of all…
