The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced Articles

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Sydney from Canberra

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
On The Bus…
My final day on the OZ Experience. Seven and a half weeks earlier I had left Sydney heading north on the first leg of my journey. Although Canberra is only three hours from Sydney, today’s leg took us along the coastline that was first [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Quorn from Coober Pedy

On The Bus…
Rejoining the Stuart Highway from Coober Pedy we continued our journey south through the desert. In such a big country, with scattered communities dotted here, there and in the middle of nowhere, it was necessary to set up a special health care service. This service has become known as The Royal Flying Doctors, [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Phillip Island from Melbourne

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
Phillip Island
Phillip Island is just a two-hour drive from Melbourne. As we crossed the bridge joining the mainland to the island we entered an Island that was declared a Nature Park in 1997. The Island is home to Australia’s famous colony of ‘Little Penguins’ at ‘Penguin [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Parachilna from Quorn

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
On The Bus…
Just after sunrise we departed the quaint old town of Quorn to make our way to Parachilna. Our journey took us deep through the heart of the Flinders Ranges. This is ancient Aboriginal land, which plays a significant part in the ‘Dreamtime’ culture. Befitting [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – One Hell of a BIG Rock

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
Day One
It was an early rise from hostel in Alice Springs to meet the NTAT (Northern Territory Adventure Tours – 1300 654 604) twenty-one seat bus. NTAT is one of the largest company’s of its kind in the world. They specialise in adventure styled expeditions out [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Mt Gambier from Barossa Valley

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
On The Bus…
From Barossa Valley it was a short dash to Adelaide, the ‘City of Churches’. Adelaide was the first state capital city of Australia to get a direct telegraph link to Europe. It is a very architecturally English city and although it is often dubbed [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Melbourne from Cape Otway

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
On The Bus…
From Bimbi Park in Cape Otway we drove for just a few minutes to Maits Rainforest. This is the last piece of ‘Cool Temperate Rainforest’ in the area, wear a jacket because it van be pretty cool. Some of the group had been here [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Grampians from Mt Gambier

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
On The Bus…
After Paintball last night most of us were all pumped up for more adventure. We made our way to Mt Arapiles. This area is world renowned for it’s climbing with over 2000 documented climbs. We weren’t about to tackle any ‘Everest’ calibre rock faces, [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Gelantipy from Phillip Island

Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience…
On The Bus…
We left Phillip Island having eaten a good cooked breakfast at Amaroo YHA. Our first stop was at Tara-Bulga National Park. ‘Tara’ is the name of an Aboriginal tracker who was part of the first European expedition to these parts, and ‘Bulga’ means ‘Man’. [...]

The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Coober Pedy from Alice Springs

On The Bus…
From Alice Springs on our way to Adelaide, this was day one of four that would take us southbound from the Red Centre, into South Australia and along the Stuart Highway into Adelaide. Our brand new OZ Experience bus driver Tom, aka ‘The Skipper’, gave us the low down on the trip ahead,

“The [...]