Yarns With Outdoor Aussies

We catchup with Emma and Ant from We Will Roam to chat about all things Australian travel. A UK couple that moved out to Australia and slowly found themselves in love with the great outdoors of Australia. They purchased a Landcruiser Troopy a few years ago and started exploring out of their home base in Melbourne. Now over 400 day on the road full time, they have covered a fair chuck of Australia.They film and produce some of the most incredibly inspiring and genuine travel films to be releas...

Rachel Yaseen is a full time traveller and adventurer currently exploring the world by bicycle. After a number of successful careers and businesses in America, she up and left searching for a more adventurous and nomadic lifestyle. Her cycling adventure began in Bangkok, late 2018 when she set off around the world. I caught up with her during her time in South Australia in late 2020. We discuss: - How she came to riding around the world - Adventures in Austral...

Pt 2 of our own story traveling around Western Australia in our 4WD for 7 months.We catchup again with our mate Jack in the park and tell him all about our travels through:The KimberleysThe Gibb River RoadBroome and the Dampier Peninsular The Pilbara RegionNingaloo Reef, Exmouth, Coral Bay, Carnarvon, Shark Bay, Monkey Mia, Steep PointKalbari, Geralton and into Perth!Make sure you go back and check out Part 1 of the story in Ep 3 for the start of our trip up through SA, and into NT....

Lindsay Warner invited us to share a bottle of his home-grown Shiraz and have a chat about his latest endeavour to ride his jet ski around Australia to break a Guinness World Record. After riding his motorbike all over the country including a solo trip up to Cape Yorke, he began exploring further on his jet ski completing a circumnavigation of Kangaroo Island in SA in 2017 and then Tasmania in 2018. The next logical step was to complete the full lap of Aus! To follow along with Lin...

This week I join Simon, April and Steve who recently competed in the 2020 Race to the Rock ultra-long-distance bike packing event. This year the race ran from Normanville on the Fleurieu Peninsula of SA, traversing the Mount Lofty Ranges, North through the Flinders Rangers, outback SA and NT, all the way to Uluru 2483km away. An absolute epic off-road cycling endurance event.We discuss the route, the gear, the bikes, food and water, the desert, the outback hospitality, and the raw adventure o...

Tayla and Hayden are a young couple from Brissy we met in the Kimberley region of WA. They were fresh out of high school on a gap year lap of Australia in Hayden’s old Hilux with a swag and a bunch of camping gear. We chat over how the trip came about, their adventures up “the cape”, meeting us in the NW, adopting a lamb in SA and the car troubles along the way. From cardboard and tape on the rear window, zip ties holding the steering together and rope holding the suspension, they acquir...

When your Dad asks you to race the Tatts Finke Desert Race on Father's Day, you can hardly say no! The notorious outback race runs from Alice Springs to the small township of Finke 230km away. After an 8km prologue to sort out starting positions, racers take on the desert all the way to Finke before turning around and racing back again on day two. Brutal! Demi had moved to Adelaide for uni but her old man went out and bought a race quad, entered her into the race and flew her ...

This week we sit down with my good mate Jack who has just returned from living in Canada for 2.5yrs, so we thought what better time share some of the stories from our 7 month road trip around SA, NT and WA.We discuss how the trip came about and my crazy tight timeline of about 5 weeks before I wanted to leave. What we packed and modified on the car as well as a few tips we picked up on packing for an extended road trip. We discuss the route we took up through SA and NT and some of the amazing...

I catchup with Boe from Outback Clean Ups and his mate Flynn on a bloody cold SA winter night and reminisce about warmer times travelling "up North".Boe operates a Non-for-profit orginisation which endevours to clean up bush, beach and marine environments all over Australia in an effort to keep our beautiful backyard clean for future generations. He is also big on inspiring and encouriging others to get out to these places and experience them for yourself, just make sure you keep the place cl...

A test ep with Caitlyn up the Riverland banging around in the tinny, testing out audio gear and the idea of podcasting.We love a good last minute trip, so after returning from work in QLD, we had exactly an hour at home throwing the essentials in the car and heading North up the Murray River to Morgan, SA.