RECENTLY ADDED DESTINATION STORIES and VIDEO October 2011
Mungo National Park story ( video coming soon)
May 2011
Cape York Forbidden Beach Run April2011
Diamantina National Park
Victorian High Country
Simpson Desert
Never Never Track
Fraser Island
Cape York 2010
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DESTINATIONS
We've selected some popular touring destinations, listing their main attractions and suggesting how long you should spend in each region; to that period you need to add transit time to and from home.
Keep visiting this page - more destination stories and videos coming!
DESTINATION VIDEO
Look for watch video links under destination titles!
Abercrombie River National Park(New South Wales) -Abercrombie River National Park preserves
steep sections of forested tableland, amidst lessrugged, cleared country that
has become pine plantations and grazing land.Abercrombie offers varied 4x4
driving conditions and magnificent river-side campsites ... read more
Border Country (Queensland and New South Wales) - This World Heritage
listed area offers spectacular views of the Mount Warning volcanic site, along
with drives and walks through dense rainforest. A tour through the Border Ranges
National Park isn’t an off-road challenge by any means, but should be part of
any tour of the mountainous region between Queensland and NSW... read more
Cape York(Queensland) - The Nation's Great 4x4
Adventure - Cape York trip has everything: great distance, corrugated roads and
tracks, dust, mud,rocks, creek crossings, sandhills, beach camping, war
relics, crocodiles,stingers, flies, fishing...and the lure of travelling to
Australia's most northern point ... watch video ... read more
Carnarvon Gorge(Queensland) - Carnarvon Gorge is one of the best known
National Parks in Queensland, but not so well known is the fact that it’s only
one of four major sites in what is the greater Carnarvon National Park: the
Gorge, Mt Moffat, Ka Ka Mundi and the oddly named Salvator Rosa region ... read more
Central Australia (Northern Territory) - Everyone knows about Uluru (Ayers Rock), which
is one of the world’s best known tourist attractions. However, Uluru is just
one of dozens of brilliant sites in Australia’s Red Centre and many 4x4
visitors don’t leave themselves enough time to see them all. Exploration of Uluru, Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) East and West MacDonnell Ranges highlights takes
around ... read more
Corner Country(NSW, Queensland and South Australia) - There are several
travel options around the Corner Country: our chosen circuit takes in the drive
from Tibooburra out to the three-State border at Cameron Corner, returns to
Middle Road, runs east to the Jump Up Loop Road and then south to Tibooburra ... read more
Diamantina National Park(Queensland) - The
Diamantina National Park covers 500,000 ha of Queensland’s channel country. The
Park encompasses weathered sandstone ranges, floodplains, expanses of Mitchell
grass, claypans and sand dunes ... watch video ... read more
East Kimberley(Western Australia) - It’s tempting for east
coasters emerging from the Tanami Desert to rush through the East Kimberley
region and onto the Gibb River Road, but you need more time near the WA border
before going west ... read more
East MacDonnell Ranges (Northern Territory) - Although the best known sites around Alice Springs are in the West MacDonnells, there are many natural and historic wonders to the east of the town that are not so well visited ... read more
Flinders Ranges(South Australia) -The Flinders Ranges destination is a must see. It offers spectacular desert mountain scenery, excellent 4 wheel drive touring, interesting historic relics, accommodation ranging from four star to bush camping and many interesting bush walks ... read more
Fraser Island(Queensland) - Fraser Island is one
of the jewels in Australia’s crown and is justifiably on the World Heritage
List. We’ve been visiting
Fraser Island since the late 1970s and it’s almost miraculous to note that the
essential wilderness value of the world’s largest sand island remains virtually
unchanged ...watch video ... read more
Mungo National Park(New South Wales) Arriving at Lake Mungo from the north you're greeted by the magnificent sight of the dry Lake Garnpung expanse stretching out before you. Shimmering on the horizon are the white sandhills to the east and red ridges to the west ... read more
Never Never Track(Northern Territory) - Jol Fleming hosts tag-along
tours through Aboriginal land, along the Hay River, in the northern Simpson
Desert and the Never Never Track further extends this remote area touringdomain ... watch video ... read more
Sandover and Plenty Highways(Northern Territory and Queensland) - The Sandover and Plenty Highways have their own attractions and are far more interesting ways to reach Alice Springs from the East Coast than the bitumen alternatives ...read more
Simpson Desert (Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory) - The infamous ‘Big Red’ sand dune is your
welcome to the dunefield – the first of some 1000 sand hills you’ll cross over ... read more
Tapin Tops National Park and Dingo Tops State Forest (New South Wales) - Most of this beautiful
drive is on graded dirt roads, so it’s not a demanding 4x4 destination, but there
are many steep side tracks in the State Forest sections that are worth
exploring ... read more
Victorian High Country (Victoria) - There are literally
hundreds of tracks through Australia’s tallest mountain ranges, here we’ve
selected a few of our favourite tracks... watch video ... read more
EXPEDITIONS
The places mentioned in Expeditions with the exception of Plenty Lakes cannot be accessed by the general public, although many readers will find these stories interesting and informative.
Plenty Lakes -In search of
evidence of Aboriginal occupation in the remote Northern Simpson Desert... watch video ...
read more
Ethabuka and Gap Hole- Significant
archaeological discovery in the Outback ...watch video ... read more
Narcoonowie - Outback
Travel Australia assists archaeologists in an ancient grindstone quarry
investigation ...watch video ... read more
Lake Callabonna -In search of diprotodon fossils
with National Museum and University of New England ... read more
Natalie Gruzlewski - Stan Gruzlewski (Natalie's Dad), Outback Travel Australia and Jol Fleming of Direct 4WD escort Natalie and the Getaway film crew on a trip through the Simpson Desert to shoot a travel destination episode for the popular TV travel show, Getaway ...watch video
STORIES
TIm and Ros Bowden take you on a journey to some Aboriginal art sites around Australia. Enjoy A Treasury of Ancient Cave Paintings.More ...
