So over the past four years of my career here at four wheel drive super centre and
Adventure Kings I've been fortunate enough to travel to some of the best campsites I reckon
you'll find just about anywhere and I still pinch myself if I'm honest I'll still pinch myself
uh while I'm sitting around a fire having a beer with the boys and I look up and see
the milky way and we're out in the middle of nowhere still doesn't quite make sense to me
how I got so lucky to land a job where I'm actually getting paid to go out camping and
um something that I'm extremely passionate about as you guys probably know but um unfortunately at
the moment I'm stuck in lockdown like a lot of you probably are as well so if you're addicted
to the outdoors as I am you'll do anything to get your fix in my case I've rolled out the swag I've
got the fire gone got a couple of cold ones in the fridge and while I'm out here i just
couldn't help but think about all my favourite spots that i've been to so I thought i'd share
with you guys my top five campsites that I've been to over the years that really stand out in my mind
there are absolutely awesome campsites and I reckon you should definitely
write them down in your bucket list because i guarantee you're going to absolutely love them
so first on my list is a place called Blue Rag Trig down in the Victorian high country
this one made it to the list for a couple of reasons firstly the track that you take to get to
the top of Blue Rag Trig is absolutely unreal and it's a must do for any four-wheel drive enthusiast
you honestly couldn't do a trip to the Victorian high country without doing blue rag from the
top there you really do get some of the most spectacular views in the entire Victorian high
country the best part about this track is that you don't need a massive patrol with lockers 35s and
reduction gears or anything like that to get to the top in fact the very first time I did it was a
couple of years back in a bog stock silver d-max that you might have seen in some of our videos
the other reason why this stands out to me is because on that very trip we were actually
stranded on top of Blue Rag Trig for a night after this insane storm ripped through it just became
way too dangerous to try and drive back down the track because visibility was next to nothing
plus the amount of rain and fog that we had it was just way too slippery from memory there were
about seven people including myself on this trip and while we're up the top we were all
huddled underneath this 6x3 gazebo because we were getting absolutely hammered with rain wind
and thunder it honestly didn't even occur to us how dangerous this was until later on considering
we're on top of a Trig point in the middle of a lightning storm but luckily no one was harmed we
didn't get struck by lightning and when we woke up the next morning the weather was absolutely
beautiful and we got to see just how incredible the view is from up there so if you're after a
360 degree view of the Victorian high country then Blue Rag Trig is definitely a spot for you
next in line is a spot called Geehi Flats campground which is down in the snowy mountains
of new south wales it's north west of Mount Kosciuszko and we traveled down there about a
year ago just after the launch of the MT1 camper trailer and we really wanted to get the thing
into some deep snow and to see how it handled it honestly when I first pulled into the camp there
I was a little bit skeptical because I was told that it was supposed to be surrounded by mountains
but it was super foggy and we couldn't even see 50 meters in front of us but once that fog
cleared we had this unreal backdrop of mountains covered in snow it looked insane when golden hour
came around because the late afternoon sun lit those mountains up like a Christmas tree
this would have to be up there with one of the most beautiful campsites around
plus there's heaps of friendly kangaroos around that will keep you company
Now if you're planning a trip through Queensland you'd be mad not to stay a couple of nights at
Double Island Point this is by far one of my favourite spots in all of Queensland and I've
camped there on at least four or five occasions and every single time I camp there it blows me
away as to how lucky we are to live in the most beautiful country in the world the drive on the
beach side to get to the campsites is about 35 kms long which takes about 45 minutes and it's some
of the best beach driving you'll find anywhere one of my favourite photos in our entire gallery
is one taken by our head photographer dean on double island point a couple of years ago we had
this crazy tropical storm blow through about 15k south of where we were camping so we got a full-on
electrical show without getting drenched dean took full advantage of this and started taking photos
of our Ford Ranger with the rooftop tent open he ended up capturing this wicked photo of lightning
screaming across the sky above the Ranger so dead set looked like the lightning was flying
out of the rooftop tent that trip was absolutely unreal but again every time I go there it blows me
away because there's awesome fishing crystal clear water and the weather there is almost always good
Last year when we're in the early stages of testing out the suspension on the brand new
MT1 camper trailer I was lucky enough to go on a nine and a half thousand km trip with
some of our engineers to really put the trailer through its paces and absolutely thrash it on
the harshest roads and tracks that we could find and it honestly didn't miss a beat the
entire trip the last stop on that trip was a place called Cape Palmerston this spot
was absolutely unreal and offered some of the best beach driving i've ever done too
it's also a spot where crocs are known to visit fortunately for me there were no crocs and we
actually ended up bumping into a bloke who had been fishing there for about 10 years and he
reckons they've never even seen one so don't let the crocs put you off one of the main reasons Cape
Palmerston made it to my list was because of the unbelievable sunrise you get there
the sunrise on our last morning there was absolutely unreal and I've never seen the sky
so bright red normally you get a nice orange or pink colour when the sun's coming up
but this was full on bright red and it looked absolutely insane i can't wait to get back there
when you talk about dream locations in Australia to go camping I reckon right at the top of
anyone's list would have to be Moreton Island it's again one of my all-time favourite spots
and I've only ever been there once you get white sandy beaches clear blue water awesome
fishing snorkelling and dolphins not to mention one of the best sunsets you'll ever witness
i went there for work back in 2019 and we camped on the west coast which meant that we were
obviously facing back towards the mainland and at that time the fireworks were doing some back
burning in the glasshouse mountains which left some smoke clouds all the way across the mainland
these smoke clouds absolutely lit up at golden hour and gave us the best sunset
any of us had ever seen it really is a dream location and that's why if I had
to choose one campsite that I had to stay out forever it would hands down be Moreton island
OK because you stuck around and because this list was almost impossible to narrow down to
five I thought I'd throw in another campsite which i reckon most of you might not have even heard of
it's a place called the Carcory Ruins North of Birdsville the Carcory Ruins is a former homestead
built out of local limestone back in 1877 by two brothers it was eventually abandoned in 1906 after
years of tough drought and the loss of about 4 000 head of cattle it's a real piece of history
which stands as a reminder of how harsh that type of country is there's a campsite about 50 meters
from the ruins and it stands as my absolute favourite when it comes to star gazing because
there's absolutely no light pollution out there and there's no hills or any obstructions anywhere
so the horizon is absolutely insane so if you're a fan of big night skies and the Carcory Ruins
is definitely for you and i'd venture to say that i wouldn't do a trip to Birdsville without making
the drive north a couple of hours to see the Carcory Ruins so there you go guys that was my
top 6 favourite locations that I've been to with my career here at 4WD SupaCentre again it was
almost impossible to make this list because there was so many awesome locations that I've been to
but to narrow it down it was really tricky but those are the top 6 that really stand out in my
mind hopefully I've inspired you guys to get out there and start enjoying what this country has
to offer and if you reckon there's some dream locations that I need to get to or the whole
team needs to get to then go ahead and leave me a comment in the section down below because I'm dead
keen to hear what you guys reckon and as always like and subscribe and thanks for watching Cheers!