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Detours016: Fish Rock Cave Dive


Australian Traveller's intern visits South West Rocks on the NSW north coast to experience one of the best dives in the country.

 


Jillaroo School


Like most of you budding McLeod's Daughters out there, Robyn Rosenfeldt has dreamt of escaping the city, sliding on a pair of chaps and mustering cattle in the High Country. She finally got her chance. It's high time you took yours.

 


20 Top Tours: Man From Snowy River & Heritage Ride


Gail Liston has hit the road and distilled her extensive travel knowledge to bring us the 20 Top Tours from all around Australia.

 


Mancations -- Gone fishing: Trout, Barra and Deep Sea


The classic Boys’ Weekend Away is a near-sacred tradition. Often difficult to negotiate with partners and loved ones, they are hard earned and come at a high cost – in brownie points at the very least. Here then is a little Mancation inspiration: the best of the best of boys’ weekends in Australia. So unwind, enjoy, and remember . . . it’s all in the name of manly fun. Words by AT Staff, edited by Craig Roberts

 


Monkey Business at the TreeTop Adventure Park


Flora King soars through the canopies and gets back to her evolutionary roots, at Australia’s first treetop adventure park

 


Blo-Karting on Mission Beach


Rather than flag down a taxi on his latest far north Queensland adventure, AT Blo-hard David Whitley tries out a very different form of transport.

 


Weekend Surf Camp


Sydney University’s sports club dropped a learn-to-surf brochure through my letterbox one miserable day when I was buckling under the strain of getting divorced at 43. As I transported the flyer to my bin, something made me pause: Wouldn’t it be weird if... I went? The spinning compass of a marriage meltdown can lead you in strange directions.

 


036 Dive The Great Barrier Reef


Dive The Great Barrier Reef. Number 36 of the "100 Things To Do In Australia Before You Die" by Australian Traveller magazine.

 


Great Articles on Adventure Holidays from
Australian Traveller Magazine




The Ultimate Ski trip
Our guide to the ultimate "Money Is No Object" ski trip to Thredbo.


Journey to the end of the earth
An expedition to Antarctica...


Vertically Challenged
The spirit of Kokoda – courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice – reverberates through the forests of the Gold Coast hinterland each year during the gruelling Kokoda Challenge. Stu Lloyd explores the unique headspace you need to be in to take on one of Australia’s toughest endurance events.


The Motorcycle Diaries: Part 1
Zoe Naylor has taken her first tottering steps in a lifelong love affair with a motorcycle. So if you’ve been tempted by the thrill of the ride and the wind in your hair, hop on and hold tight.


Catching bulls in Cape York
You read that right: CATCHING Bulls in Cape York . . . AT Reader Michele Maddison takes us along on the ride of her life. 


Penguin Passage - Australia's Antarctic Territories
Photographer Ewen Bell became enamoured with penguins while cruising to Australia’s Antarctic Territories. It’s a totally new world down there, and the true final frontier for adventure tourism.


The Troy Bayliss Experience
Zoe Naylor hangs on for dear life as she hurtles round the track on the back of a bike ridden by a World Superbike champion. And so can you.


Australia's Best Walking Holidays
Quentin Long walks us through Australia’s most iconic multi-day nature treks: these 24 adventure escapes take in the most remote regions in Australia.

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