Camping, cycling and drinking great wine, each favourite pastimes, but roll them into one and you have a rollicking weekend only three hours drive from Melbourne.

Using a tyre plug you can fix some punctures without even taking the wheel off the car

Way back when I was a kid growing up in the Adelaide suburbs, playing in the sprinkler in the front yard was how we usually cooled off . . .

Most people's concerns about doing the 'Big Lap' around Australia are usually related to getting stranded in remote areas, snakes or running out of money! In fact road accidents are a much bigger danger.

You'd be hard pressed to find a corner of the globe that doesn't have their own festival and their own unique way to celebrate - indeed this is one of the great things about travelling - getting to meet the locals doing what they do best.

Track: Waterfall Gully carpark to Mt Lofty SummitLength: 7.5km round tripAccess: year round, good quality maintained trackGrade: steady climb, steep in places, lots of...

The 'Whispering Wall' is actually a concrete dam that was constructed by more than 400 workers who lived in camp tents and rough huts...

From the air it doesn't look that difficult but from ground level when confronted with a continuous wall of green it's another story. The maze...

Just outside Flinders Ranges National Park you'll find this spectacular geological feature known as the Great wall of China

Capture 240 degree scenes in a single 28 megapixel image. Is this the iPhone the ultimate travel pocket camera?