RETURN TO SPLENDOUR

Early July in Outback Queensland. Nights arrive with a cold suddenness and dry July days, as well as being a fine time to reflect upon extracurricular imbibement, are great days for testing the bona fides of Australia’s best campers.

Think enormously proportioned blazing nightly campfires, crisp, sharp mornings and daily examinatory 4WD and camper forays over bone-dry dirt tracks. Camper was there for business and winter is a month for business. Of course, Camper’s chief mission is working out ways to have more fun, so ‘business’, as we see it, ain’t too bad. At the end of the day after all, Camper’s in the fun business.

“GETTING EVERY SINGLE AUSSIE OUTSIDE AND OFFROAD CAMPING IS A GUIDING MANUFACTURING PRINCIPLE OF LIFESTYLE CAMPERS”

Winter camping is a maligned pastime. It doesn’t get the same kudos as warm weather camping, for obvious reasons, but it definitely has its advantages. Peace, quiet and plenty of room to stretch-out being the obvious ones. Yet most people