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Interviews with celebrities who still prefer tents and caravans to five-star resorts, chats with campers looking after the environment in their own special way and stories from interesting folk travelling around Australia.

The Dulux Dog on Camping With Pets

There are few Australian celebrities that are so universally loved, that have courted so little controversy, and that are so helpful when deciding on the perfect colour matches. But did you know that the Dulux Dog is a really keen caravanner, and ... [Read More]
16 March 2019

Jimmy (Giggle) Rees Says Caravanning More Competitive than DWTS

If you’ve had pre-school aged kids or grandkids anytime in the last decade, you're probably familiar with Jimmy Giggle, the effervescent host of ABC Kids’ daily programming show Giggle and Hoot (Hoot’s his best mate, a puppet owl). The part of ... [Read More]
4 March 2019

Interview – John Rooth

Roothy needs little introduction for most people interested in caravanning and camping in Australia. As one of the most prominent four-wheel driving and camping journalists and entertainers, John’s career as what seems to be a professional camper ... [Read More]
22 November 2018

Live Fanny on Facebook in The Outback

Golden Guitar winner and perennial caravan traveller Fanny Lumsden has delighted our Facebook followers by putting on a short concert and playing a couple of songs live on the social media platform from the red dirt Queensland town of Eulo. The ... [Read More]
21 May 2018

Celebrity Camper – Fanny Lumsden

Edwina ‘Fanny’ Lumsden is one of Australia’s up and coming Australian folk musicians. As well as a highly regarded first album, the young country girl from the Snowy Mountains has clocked up nearly 100,000km touring the country over the last ... [Read More]
14 December 2017

My Top 5: Tim Silverwood

Take 3 for the sea By Justine McClymont From surfing at local beaches to international sailing adventures, environmentalist Tim Silverwood is never far from the water.  In 2011 Tim Silverwood stepped onto a sailing boat to travel from ... [Read More]
21 June 2017

Camping with the stars: Sheree and Peter ‘Spida’ Everitt

By Kimberley Nicoll AFL great Peter ‘Spida’ Everitt and his charming wife Sheree would have to be one of the most fun couples you would hope to bump into on the road. They really are a laugh a minute.  Ask them how they first met, the ... [Read More]
21 June 2017

Camping with the stars: Don McAlpine



He’s seen more stars than just about anyone – working with the biggest names in movies and spending any downtime camping in the outback under the Southern Cross sky. Over the past four decades cinematographer Don McAlpine has shot some of the ... [Read More]
3 June 2017

Camping with the stars: Grace Knight

Aussie 1980s singing sensations the Eurogliders’ Grace Knight, shares her memories of caravanning as a child in the UK.   Did you camp or caravan? We stayed in a caravan which seemed like a real adventure at the time. It must have been ... [Read More]
3 June 2017

My Top 5 with Tony Parkes

Tony Parkes made his mark in business as a caravan park entrepreneur in the 1970s.  Since then he’s been fighting to save what’s left of Australia’s biggest subtropical rainforest. In 1989, before the term “tree-change” had even been ... [Read More]
3 June 2017