CROSSING THE NULLARBOR

                                                                                                                                  Caravan+RV April/May 10 issue

The Nullarbor Plain – straddling the border between South Australia and Western Australia – is famously treeless and empty. But it has come to be a shorthand term for driving from Adelaide to Perth, its 2700 kilometres a right of passage for many travelling Australians who still […]

MOOCHING ABOUT MT MOFFATT

                                                                                                                                    Caravan+RV Oct/Nov 09 issue

Part 1 of two articles on Queensland’s Carnarvon National Park

 On the way to Carnarvon Gorge in the Central Queensland Sandstone Belt, Tim and Ros Bowden* stopped off to explore Mount Moffatt

As the black cockatoo flies, there is only about 40 kilometres between the Mt […]

GORGEOUS CARNARVON GORGE          

                                                                                                                                   Dec/Jan Issue Caravan+RV 2010

Part 2 of the Bowdens exploration of Queensland’s Carnarvon National Park.

Previously Tim and Ros Bowden explored the Mt Moffatt section of Carnarvon National Park, in the wild and spectacular Central Queensland Sandstone Belt, before tackling the much-visited Carnarvon Gorge, which although only about 40 kilometres […]

TKING THE WATERS                                                                          Caravan+RV Aug/Sept 2009 Issue

After hearing about the curative powers of Moree’s hot mineral spas, Tim […]

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW (Article first published in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend magazine, 21 May 2005)

 A family brush with polar fame in Hobart in 1912 led journalist and Antarctic historian Tim Bowden on a personal pilgrimage to Norway to live out a boyhood dream.

In the […]