Queensland’s World Heritage-listed Fraser Island is worth visiting at any time of the year. It’s the planet’s largest sand island and a 4X4 paradise, with stunning rainforest, dingoes, awesome fishing, crystal clear freshwater lakes and endless beaches.
First seen by Europeans as far back as the 1600s, it remains one of white man’s last frontiers. It’s been a place of big adventure, big mines and big cattle properties. But times are changing as civilisation – and the…
Alfred Wernham Canning must have had the testicular fortitude of a thousand men to attempt to forge a stock route between Halls Creek in the Kimberley and the southern goldfields of WA. It’s a few thousand miles of the harshest…
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…
A perfect party: Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows You’d think he’d take it easy now that he’s recorded 45 albums, been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, enjoyed hits like Harley and Rose, sold more than two million…
Kirsty Hobbs is our resident Unsealed 4X4 female columnist. She has no fixed address, just finished a big adventure around Australia and is currently driving the back roads up through eastern Africa in her trusty old LandCruiser. About a decade ago the…
WOWS AND WIPEOUTS! THIS WEST COAST IDYLL IS THE PERFECT WEEK AWAY FROM PERTH WORDS AND IMAGES TOM HAYNES The rumble of our Mitsubishi Overlander floating across corrugations is punctuated by rocks flinging against its underbody; clangs protesting our intrusion…
GARETH WRIGHT AND KIRSTY HOBBS, THE AUSSIE OVERLANDERS, ARE YOUNG ADVENTURERS TRAVELLING THE WORLD IN THEIR 4X4. Over the past few years they have built their knowledge from the ground up. They don’t pretend to know everything but are happy…
