Ask ten Aussies about the Eyre Peninsula, and we guarantee nine of them won’t know what you’re talking about. And the tenth is probably bluffing. Eyre is a little pocket…

Trina and I sat on my mum’s couch in Manchester, listening to a family friend try his best to talk us out of travelling across the Nullarbor. “There’s absolutely nothing…

When you’re driving along unsealed roads through one of the world’s last great wildernesses, it pays to have a safe spot to call home. For us, and a lot of…

If you’re flying into Alice Springs or Yulara expecting the Four Seasons and a well-stocked minibar, you may as well turn the plane around right now. The Outback is hot,…

The Outback. Even the area’s name sounds like an admission of defeat, as if it contains so much nothingness that any attempt to put words around it is doomed to…

We get asked a lot what a group trip in Kakadu National Park looks like. What do you see, what do you do, how many times do you get to…

The Red Centre might be the beating heart of Australia, but Kakadu National Park is where the country goes to cool off. It’s a 20,000 square kilometer stretch of billabongs,…

A lot of places are spruiked as ‘remote’ or ‘un-mapped’, and it’s easy to get a little cynical. Yeah, yeah, we think, there’s probably a McDonalds on every corner and…

Like many Australians, I’ve given my passport an absolute thrashing. As soon as I hit my late teens I began to feel trapped in Australia. Fenced in. Limited. I needed…

The Olkola people come from Queensland’s southern central Cape York Peninsula and call themselves the ‘Freshwater People’. Their traditional lands encompass over one million hectares, which are part of the…

Australians are masters of environmental adaptation. When placed in surrounds harsh, hostile and generally inimical to human habitation, they adjust. Not always in creative, clever or particularly successful ways, it…

“What’s wrong?” Trina said, through the mouthpiece of her snorkel. My tongue churned and felt like it was expanding. Liquid salt poured into my face. I couldn’t get the words out.…