A fever dream missive from the edge. There are the late night roadhouses, their sulphur glow radiating sickly into the pallid fog that sags over the road between midnight and dawn, somehow the only meaningful mile marker out here, the quick glance into the eyes of the attendant the only...
Iconic High Country huts paired with iconic High Country tracks. This is all about iconography, of pairing red-letter offroad drives with the huts that look over each of them like sentinels. Of course, on many occasions these huts also have adjacent campgrounds to post up for the night. 1. CLEAR...
FROM ONE LOVER TO ANOTHER AH-AH. Nothing freezes moments like sounds, and these memories are instantly reheated when we return to certain places. You might be the type who’s moved to tears by Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’, bumping it on the car stereo on lonely nights … Or maybe you’re the...
It’s barely visible these days, but the legendary Carson River Track is still one of the most treacherous and triumphant in Australia. Even if you manage to drive just one section of it. Words: Sarah Ryder Photos: Sarah Ryder & Carlisle Rogers Having spent a year 4WDing and working...
Sean Scott’s on a mission. And it’s taking him down every gravel rabbit hole, forestry path and overgrown farming track.
He’s spent so much of the last five years wandering the bush in his trusty Toyota that his brain has become a topographical map. It sees rivers, it sees scarps, it sees swamps, it sees headlands. And it locates the best of it all like a homing missile.
FROM AUSTRALIA, WITH LOVE. (#87, Australia Issue, October 2019) Let’s kick things off by saying that there were two Brisbane Valleys. The famous one being the inner-city vice district, not far from my school, and once full of hookers and druggos. The other Brisbane Valley was much less notorious, and...
There’s a bunch of places in Australia where you can fly from anywhere, pick up a fourby, loaded, and ready to go. But there’s only a couple of places where it’s actually a good idea. Enter Beachcamp’s 4WD Hire…
Quite possibly as long as homo sapiens sapiens has existed, so has the vision quest, the desire to impose upon the mind a state of heightened awareness, the assumption that under certain circumstances intuitive wisdom may arise spontaneously…
STILL THE DON’T-MISS EVENT OF THE OUTBACK CALENDAR. It was a matter of time until the annual desert migration had its own focal point. And for years now, the Big Red Bash has been just that. A meeting point at the ultimate end of the road. There are myriad reasons...
THE TOP FIVE MOST UNDERRATED FISH IN THE LAND. If you’re into fishing, you just about won the lottery by winding up in Australia. If you’re also partial to quality seafood, then doubly so. Seriously, the amount of top shelf table fish that abound in Aussie waters astounds. Even for...
