2020 Road Trip Bucket List
Here's the things you don't want to miss this year. Whether you’ve set your sights on a Big Lap, or just a whole lot of big weekends away, tick you...
Editorial
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Turning a Box Trailer into your Dream RV
Camper catches up with a family of recreational archers who have transformed their humble box trailer into a four-berth camper of immense functiona...
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Travel Types: What’s your style?
What sort of ‘travel type’ are you? Do you bounce around, or hang around? Kath spells out a few different travel types and discusses how to success...
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Travelling Back to your Roots
It’s been around six years since I last visited England and over 25 years since I set foot in the land of Single Malt Whiskey, lake-dwelling monste...
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The Big Dry: How Competition For Water is Killing Our River Systems
We recently addressed the issue of the dying (or dead) Darling River and how it related to cotton farming. Now, we take a look at the broader issue...
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Is technology destroying camping culture?
Nowadays, kids and their parents seem more interested in their devices than exploring around camp and making friends. It’s bloody hard to watch.
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How to Gut a Goanna
And other things I've recently learnt on a trip to Cape York. You never stop learning, no matter how experienced you are.
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The Dying Rivers of Western New South Wales
Water use in cotton farming and one of the worst droughts in recent history are combining to quickly drain the Darling River of its last drops. the...
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The Great Barrier Reef: A Navigational Nightmare
Camper recounts the navigational hell the Great Barrier Reef put Captain Cook’s Endeavour through. Perhaps he would’ve been better off hitching up ...
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Top 15 Camping Mistakes Made by Beginners
Camper selects the top 15 easily avoidable though often costly mistakes made by folks who are new to camping. Perhaps you’ve made some of these you...
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Growing up as a Camping Kid
A few key milestones mark the physical and mental development of any child. But for families that spend a lot of their time camping, these importan...
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The Mysterious Origins of Boabs and Desert Palms
How did the oddball trees of the Aussie outback wind up where they are? It’s not just a matter of curiosity. The answers could reveal secrets from ...
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Having a Campfire in your Backyard
Miss having a campfire when at home? What’s stopping you? Bureaucracy hinders some unlucky citizens, but for many, the revolution of fire pits is b...
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Cordless Tools You Need While Camping
Ever feel like you’ve left something important at home? It was your cordless appliances. Camper runs you through a few pieces of handy cordless kit...
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The History of Cape York
Camper Tips you off on the long, fabled history of the Cape York Peninsula.
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The Real Cost of Littering
Does it really take monetary rewards and legal sanctions for folks to start using bins? It’s time us overlanders took responsibility for our rubbish.
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Irish Sailors in the Aussie Bush
From sailing around between European islands, to traversing the Australian outback in a Vista RV – the adventurous trajectory of the Brownes is one...
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Hazards of Outback Travel
Some folks may exaggerate just how bad dirt roads are, but the fact remains, they can, over time, damage your rig and potentially leave you in strife.
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Can You Put a Price on Safety?
Prompted by a recent incident involving the biggest kangaroo known to mankind, Kath asks, what is the safety of your setup worth? Can you put a pri...
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Gas Mining in Outback Queensland
It's not just dinosaurs beneath Queensland's surface. There's gas too and the mining industry wants their share. But farmers are worried about the ...
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Inside Word: Rhinomax Campers
Camper caught-up with RhinoMax Director, Andy Dean, to discover more about their eye-catching, super-capable and well-appointed stable of top-spec ...
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10 Essentials to Pack
Heading into the desert? Bring along these ten things for a smooth and fun-filled adventure.
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Minimalist Camping
Camping minimalism or Zen camping, we take a look at whether paring back the inventory is as fulfilling as having the comforts of a camper at your ...
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The Opal Sea
Camper's resident offroad-loving geologist takes a closer look at Australia's magnificent interior lands.
