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This is for travellers who like excavating. Who seek micro details, new experiences, fresh tales, seldom walked tracks, the overlooked and under-rated.

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  • Sandy Cape review: Why you need to book this campground NOW.
    Sandy Cape review: Why you need to book this campground NOW

    If you get this place on the right day, it’s like being in Rottnest Island, 75 years ago or so. Raw, undeveloped and absolutely magical.

  • The best station stay within two hours of Perth
    The best station stay within two hours of Perth

    This 5000-acre working sheep and cattle farm offers an unforgettable (and exclusive!) back door entrance to the Pinnacles. Don’t miss it.

  • Are these Perth’s most instagrammable cafes?
    Are these Perth’s most instagrammable cafes?

    We’ve found the most quirky, oddball, totally loveable and very instagrammable places to chow down at.

  • Women who travel solo: how to stay safe on a van roadtrip
    Solo van girls: how to stay safe on a roadtrip

    Our advice for the van life girlies on how to best stay safe while travelling alone.

  • WA’s Best Backyards to Park a Van or Pop a Tent
    WA’s best backyards to park a van or pop a tent

    Fancy a camping experience that’s a little left-field? Try bunkering down in someone’s backyard. Yep, you can have a sleepover on all kinds of private properties here in WA.

  • Kalbarri roadtrip: the best places to see and things to do
    Epic pitstops on the way to Kalbarri

    The wild beauty of Kalbarri will knock your socks off, blow your mind, hit you for a six and sucker punch you in the jaw.

About Deep Dive.

A billion years ago I used to edit travel and lifestyle magazines.

These days I’m a freelance writer and content creator, part-time van girl, voracious seeker of unique happenings, lover of new friends and experiences, proponent of living.

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Further Afield

  • Le Palace de Menthon: 7 reasons why this is the best 5-star hotel near Lake Annecy (we’re calling it!)
    Put this French hotel on your Euro summer hitlist

    Le Palace de Menthon is the hidden secret of European vacationers during summer holidays. It has all the beauty of its Italian cousins, but none of the squished sardine Euro summer vibes.

  • Le Moulin Bregeon review: Why you HAVE to stay at this converted water mill in the Loire Valley.
    Le Moulin Bregeon: A hidden treasure in the Loire Valley

    Le Moulin Bregeon is the kind of gem that you only really unearth if you’re fortunate enough to get the secret shoulder tap. We got the tap, Barbra Streisand got the tap, and now we’re giving YOU the tap.

  • Cook (and eat!) a Greek feast with an Athens local
    Cook (and eat!) a Greek feast with an Athens local

    Cook up a delicious feast, learn the generational secrets and a share a meal round the table with new Greek friends. Here’s how to do it.

  • Our favourite place to stay in Auckland, New Zealand
    Our favourite place to stay in Auckland, New Zealand

    The Great Ponsonby Art Hotel isn’t a hotel at all. It’s like having a sleepover at Nan’s house, where she’s prepared the good yellow room with the special paisley doona for your arrival.

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