Hi there, and welcome to 4WDing Australia. Thanks for stopping by!
This is where we’re sharing more than 1300 articles to help you travel, 4WD and camp in Australia.
4WDing Australia is run by Aaron and Sarah Schubert, with Aaron doing the writing and most of the photography. Sarah loves to pick a camera up too, and without her help overall this blog would not exist. We both love photography, and sharing great photos of amazing places.
We’ve been avid 4WD owners and campers for more than 16 years, and love nothing more than heading away to explore this amazing country. Over the years, we’ve done hundreds of 4WD tracks in Australia, and spent more than a thousand nights under canvas, in some of the most sensational destinations around.
To take it to a whole new level, we packed everything up that we own and hit the road full time, to travel around this magical country for a couple of years.
We own an Isuzu Dmax 4WD and tow a Hybrid Camper (or Hypercamper, as Lifestyle calls it) that makes up our home on wheels. We’ve got a 4 and 6 year old to keep us busy, and they’re loving the lifestyle too.
We’re always on the lookout for 4WD tracks and camp sites in Australia, and continue to look for the best of the best in this truly unbelievable country.
In the past we owned a red Toyota Hilux, then an 80 Series Land Cruiser with all the fruit and towed a Soft Floor Camper Trailer.
We are ‘based’ in Perth and have travelled a fair chunk of Western Australia and the Northern Territory by 4WD, with some of the other parts of the country without a 4WD. The big lap of Australia is well underway, and we’ve got a post covering South Australia and Victoria too.
Why do we run this blog?
This website was created to share our experiences and help, inspire and guide others to get out and to travel Australia by 4WD.
We are constantly learning, and love nothing more than passing on genuine, high quality and relevant information to our audience. I genuinely detest seeing poor quality (or incorrect) information out there, and we do a massive amount of work behind the scenes. You’ll find trip reports, destination reviews, 4WD tips and technical information, along with product reviews, information on camping and a whole lot more.
Everything you read here is honest information. There’s a new breed of travellers who provide a cash for comment service, and that’s not us. In fact, if you want to read a controversial post we wrote about this, check out Travelling families and influencers selling themselves.
Almost all of our gear is paid for from our own, hard earned money. If the gear is rubbish, that is made very clear. There’s a lot of dodgy marketing, unethical practices and just poor quality gear on the market and we like to sort out the chaff from the wheat, so you don’t have to.
You will not find us giving out discount codes so we can make a dollar, or promoting gear and hash tagging every manufacturer in our social posts, as we aren’t interested in jeopardising our opinions by getting paid to promote them.
We don’t swap our gear out for items just so we can promote them, and we buy and use what suits us, then review it honestly and nothing more.
That said, please note what is on this website is our own honest opinions, and you would do well to do your own research! We will not take responsibility for you following our opinions! DYOR
About 4WDing Australia
We receive around 2 million visitors every year, from people all over Australia (and a small amount internationally). After 14 years of running the blog, we are finally starting to make some money sharing what we love.
This is in the form of the ads you see scattered around the site. It’s not enough to do full time just yet, but it’s a labour of love and we’ve chosen this monetization method over ‘influencing’, being attached to businesses and being salesy.
We spend a significant amount of time (40+ hours a week) and effort running the blog, and would love it if you could support us by sharing articles, leaving a comment or telling your mates about it.
Feel free to contact us
About Aaron:
By trade, I’m a Maintenance Manager and qualified Mechanical Fitter/Maintenance Planner and have studied Maintenance Engineering along with a range of other courses and tickets. Before our big lap, I’d spend my days maintaining fixed plant equipment, and then come home to my two little boys and amazing wife, Sarah.
I’m an avid photographer, writer and enjoy the technical side of blogging too, all of which go hand in hand with great 4WD tracks, amazing camping and incredible trips around Australia.
I love nothing more than extended travel with the camper trailer, 4WD and our family and friends. I also take a great deal of pleasure in breaking down complicated subjects, and providing honest, genuine direction and help for those looking for information.
I’ve written for Snowys and Bridgestone in the past, and have been featured in the Sunday Times too. I’m a very experienced 4WDer, and love exploring technical tracks that lead to amazing places.
About Sarah:
Sarah’s a very, very busy mum of two boys. Having spent nearly a decade in child care, she (prior to the lap) stayed at home and looked after our young kids while Aaron was at work. These days, she’s busy with me looking after the kids, doing school work with them or enjoying our many adventures around Australia.
She does a lot of the destination and activity planning on our lap, and allows Aaron a huge amount of time to work on the blog.
She loves photography, scrap booking, cooking (only the fun things!), gardening and is constantly asking when we can go camping next! In the past Sarah has often been the driving force for our regular camping trips and for making everything happen so we are ready to go and explore amazing places.
Sarah’s helped create our 50 easy camping meal ideas post, and plenty more.
Sarah’s also the brains behind our YouTube channel, and does all of the editing. We’d love it if you were keen to follow along; here’s our big lap series:
Our travels
Before our lap, we’d travel regularly on weekends, burn most of our annual leave on camping trips and every now and again go on bigger trips, like our 3 months up north with a camper trailer.
Now, we are on the road full time for at least a year and maybe two (or even more!)
If you see us out and about, come and say G’day! We love a good chat!
See you out there!