Where to go for the AFL grand final? We ended up picking a little town called Balgal beach because it’s on the beach and it has free camping. Can you believe the […]
Balgal Beach, Queensland
Punsand Bay, Cape York Peninsular
Don’t worry about cooking dinner. Check out the huge black lip oysters we found at Punsand Bay. Finally after weeks of searching we found some decent sized black lips. These oysters are […]
Cape Melville National Park
Onto our first remote bush camp for our North Queensland trip – Cape Melville National Park. We took the dodgy 4WD track north of Cooktown that follows the coast directly to Cape […]
Mataranka revisited
For the weekend we went to Mataranka again. This was our third time, but this time there were three of us. Tash was the third wheel. We camped at the Jalmurark Campgrounds in Elsey National […]
Hong and Joe together again – the Big F###-off Camp V2
Hong is flying up to Darwin this weekend to join Joe in an epic 2 week fishing adventure across the top end of the northern territory – the BFC V2. Be prepared […]
Bullita Stock Route, Gregory National Park, Northern Territory
I twisted Sharni’s arm and convinced her that we should tackle the Bullita Stock Route after our night at the Bullita camp ground near the homestead in Gregory National Park. It’s a […]
Merl Camping Area, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory
After the success at Shady Camp, we ventured off to Kakadu and set up at the Merl Camping Area, adjacent to the Cahill River Crossing on the East Alligator River. Entry to […]
Oolloo Crossing, Northern Territory
A quick overnight camp at Oolloo crossing in the Douglas / Daly conservation area proved to be the most expensive day of fishing yet, with the loss of 5 lures in quick […]
Flora River Nature Park, Katherine Region, Northern Territory
We camped at Flora River Nature Park over the weekend. It is around 130km from Katherine, 90km down the Victoria Highway towards Kununarra then 40km on a reasonable gravel track to the national […]
Googs Track, South Australia
Googs Track is a 200km 4WD track that runs along the eastern edge of the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia that covers more than 300 parallel sand dunes before meeting the Transcontinental Railway Line at Malbooma. We left […]
Roughing it, dune camping, Fitzgerald National Park
We have just spend our first night dune beach camping in Fitzgerald National Park near the mouth of Gordon Inlet at Tooregullup Beach. The unsealed 20km dirt road took almost 2 hours to drive […]
Boat Harbour Beach, Wellstead, Bremer Bay (and Trevor)
It was getting too hot in the Stirling Ranges. Much too hot to climb any mountains. We needed some beach so we spent Monday night camping at Boat Harbour Beach, a little bush camping spot […]
Joe’s first camp catch
Exciting times – we can report Joe’s first fish catch for our tour around Australia. Three herrings caught at Shelley Beach, West Cape Howe National Park. Smallish but at least he caught something […]
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