Camping is about ‘roughing it’ - it's about sleeping on cold, rock hard ground and waking in the morning and pinpointing every stick and pebble under your bed - from the indents in your back. Camping is about living like the old timers and suffering like they did - isn't it? 

Ask five different 4 x 4 experts which is the best tyre and chances are you’ll get five different answers. Most likely it will be something like “Bridgecooper Sandcrunchers” or “Goodstone Rockwrestlers” or some other heavily advertised, high profile product.

Whether it is the red pindan of Western Australia, the lush wetlands of the Northern Territory or the rolling grasslands of Queensland, working and living on an Australian cattle station can be a unique and enlightening experience.

Think you are just going to bundle up the caravan or camper trailer and swan off into the sunset and discover paradise lost – a perfectly secluded hideaway undiscovered until now. Well, think again.