Outdoors stories

Car troubles did not deter us

We confidently prepared and set off from South Africa in 1984 for a three week holiday in Namibia. My husband had converted an old 1600cc Kombi into ...

Deb Williams
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How to make a driveway and plough a field with an ex

Ok, so I've bought a patch of scrub an hour west of Brisbane, 3 acres, as much as I wanted 100 or more, 3 would have to do for now. ...

Dave Crankston
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Your Screaming is Making Me Nervous.

I haven’t met a person from Finland who wasn't a genuine, fear-inducing psychopath. When I finished school I worked in a remote gold mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region....

Andy Thompson
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Late night skinny dip? Go on then.

Some friends and I decided to take a late night dip in the swimming pool. We were pretty drunk, and it was probably a little bit silly, but mum and d...

Ashy Boy
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Wait Until You See The Whites of Their Eyes...

“Move over. I need to rest my gun there” isn’t something I’d prepared myself to hear. I was inspecting a site near the town of Dululu and the farmer was having dingo problems....

Andy Thompson
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Weekend in a tree house

The three children were beside themselves when it was announced that we were going to exchange our home for a tree house for a few days....

Deb Williams
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