australia

hello StP - new user here, currently in mparntwe/alice springs, 'australia'. long term enjoyer of cost free adventure, newer to riding freights in the notoriously challenging and unreliable rail network of australia. keen to keep learning the sparse network and hoping to travel abroad soon - i...

Feels odd to use my legal name. I go by Wyvern anyway with a lot of people, and have honestly thought about using Bandit for a nickname that no one can trace back to me, but like... no one knows wtf a Wyvern is or how to say it -- the amount of times I've copped Shane already, it may as well...

Hey yall. Planning on heading to Australia very shortly. Looking for full time work for all of august preferably with accomodation around NSW or Victoria. My job of choice would be beekeeping but keen on any work. I have experience beekeeping, picking, planting, and also hold qualifications in...

Hey there My name is Damien, and I've been an on-n-off user here (I keep forgetting old account passwords etc) as I am with most things in life (scratches head). Anyway, a coma I fell into last year changed everything for me; the whole trajectory -I know know what I want a lot more now, and...

Between the wire fence and floodlights lies freedom March 29th, 2019 on the belly of the beast desert bound with the pot of stars overhead to direct this north bound train. Getting here felt like an intangible dream, fast and ambitious like the stars as their life pounds deeply on our...

where are they? I've heard of Nimbin and Byron Bay but from what i've heard theyre no longer the true havens of alternative living. Anyone got a suggestion for a finding a community with sensible values?

Yo, my band Whiskey & Speed just dropped our first new track in years. Sweetness. I'm really goddamn proud of this one and how it turned out. It's the first track of our upcoming EP "Better Than Expected". A little less punk, a little more grunge. I guess? Idk, I'm stoked on it. Check it out if...

Does any one know what will happen if you are caught overstaying your visa in Australia? Please, No speculation... If you have done this or know anyone who has successfully, Please comment. The Visa processes down here are ridiculous! They are the highest cost and the longest time frames to...

I have some advice for anyone coming down. Hitchhiking is normal here, not against the law. There is a shit ton of freedom here! I never want to see amurika again... I have been in Australia for almost 4 months. It is CRAZY expensive here... Backpackers have been given court appearance for...

Repost due to my old account carking it and not displaying any of my old threads. Pics from ground level will be in another thread soon. Hope you enjoy

Thought this would be interesting to everybody here. Rob Gray (a fellow aussie) a nature photographer, grey nomad, and also the owner/builder of WOTHEHELLIZAT (Australias largest offroad motorhome) http://www.robgray.com/graynomad/wothahellizat/index.php Wothehellizat mk1...

Hey folks! If you're reading this you probably know that having a vagina makes you vulnerable to some diseases and other issues that people without them don't have to deal with. I'm going to go through the two most annoying and teach you how to deal with and cure them. 1. Urinary Tract...

Hey mob, I'm gonna be travelling around Australia for a few years, I'm in coffs staying with family for a few weeks until my van gets fixed but after that throw me a line and I'll make you a curry and read your tarot. :)

I love sharing photos, and there is never much going on in the Oceania section of StP so I thought I'd share some more! Ended up going up and down the East Coast of Australia (between Brisbane and Sydney) a couple of weeks back. The main aim was catching up with mates and sorting our some visa...

Another punk show Down Under, if anyone's around Brissy. My band is calling it a day after almost a decade, we're kickin' at as we should and partying at a rad little DIY space called Common House with some of our favourite locals. This band has been a massive part of my life and it's a bit...

A couple of weeks ago I headed up to Mt. Glorious with a mate and our furry bud. We've been up there exploring a hell of a lot of times and found some great spots, but this was the best. Our general plan is to find somewhere to park where the scrub isn't too thick and the drop isn't too steep...

To anyone else out there in Brisbane, Australia... My rad little crew Pig City Folk Punk are getting out of the parks and into the pub - a few of us are taking over Sabotage in Fortitude Valley on Sunday Feb 11 from 3:30pm. Entry is free, beers aren't crazy pricey and the music'll be good...

Hi All, First post here. I saw this site referenced on Reddit so I thought I'd come see what it was all about. I've been rubbertramping for the last 2 years, based out of Sydney, Australia. Hoping to either move to Japan next year, or go full global-nomad indefinitely if that move falls...

Hey all, new here, read the welcome to STP- heaps of good info. Have looked around this site a few times in the last few years but signed up yesterday as I spent some time with Jim Stobe (RIP) in the states and had planned on riding with him and him possibly coming to Aus. I'm gutted by the...

Over the past year or two a like minded mate and I have have seemingly (accidentally) created a little scene within a scene here in Pig City (Brisbane, Australia). After a few two many drinks and billies the other night (pic below) we got talking and realised the beautiful group of people we'd...

Hey lovely people, I'm a few weeks out from applying for a two-year Canadian "working holiday" visa, there's a lot of reasons I need a massive change in my life and I've decided up-rooting and heading overseas is the way to go. I've been working my arse off and saving everything I can to make...

The Melbourne Anarchist Book Fair is coming up :) I went last year and it's a pretty rad event with heaps of tables with books, zines, patches, etc and some cool workshops, and good food. It was awesome as I had just arrived in the city a few weeks before so it was a great way to meet folks and...

Me and a mate decided to try and start a little folk punk collective in Brisbane, Australia. It's mainly drinking, sharing songs and jamming (on originals and covers)....essentially we get park drunk in this shitty town with acoustic guitars and noise happens. The vid is on my shitty go-pro...

Any of you lovely creature from or around the Northern Rivers in NSW? I need a quick little escape from homebase in Brisbane and am thinking of heading down for a few days soon (maybe next week 13th-16th July). Either camping, or given the weather, finding a cheap hostel and just vegging out...

Yo, Meet up for Pig City Folk Punk (Brisbane, Australia) happening on July 1 at People's Park in West End. We'll be jammin' from around 2pm! Bring acoustic guitars, banjos, harmonicas, drums, booze (FYR - the law is always murky with drinking in parks/where you can drink in public - so know...

Hi everybody, I randomly found this website two days ago, and am really glad I did :) I was actually doing some research about hitchihiking and train-hopping in Australia, because those would be my next goal. My boyfriend and I will be leaving from Sydney and try to get as far as we can...

Here's some photos from the hitching trips I've done over the past few months, and some photos from a bush walk I did when I met up with @Benji91 :) they're all from the coast between Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane, to just north of Brisbane. The old rail tunnel is in Dularcha National Park.

While I'm yet to find any others on here from or travelling thorough Brisbane, Australia I thought I'd share this regardless (just in case!). This Friday (14/04) is a public holiday, so me and my mate Chris (from rad folk punk act Hang) think that calls for acoustic crusty park jams! Come...

Hearing about some fellow Aussie's holidaying in America using that phrase to fuck with locals have me a good giggle (hey, it's a national pastime to take the piss out of ourselves and see what we can get away with saying!). It reminded me of this photo, just to confirm cliches. Had this...

I found out about this festie kind of last minute, it's in the bush a few hours outside of Melbourne and I'll be heading over with some friends tomorrow! It's the last year it'll be put on so figured I'd better check it out. It's a camping festie and something like $40 to go for the whole...

Just thought I'd share a few photos from my wanderings around Mt Tibrogargan (Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland, Australia) back around 2014 with my mate Peta and her pup Aura. It's a gorgeous place - a lot of disused 4x4 tracks, plenty of wildlife (birds, kangeroos, snakes etc) and some fairly...

Hey lovely people, I'm Benji. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia - moved up north to Brisbane when I was a teenager. I love travelling more than most things in life, I've seen a lot of Oz and a fair bit of the world (USA, UK, Thailand, Tanzania, Malaysia, Netherlands...wherever there's a...

In July 2016, I set off to Melbourne, Australia to study at one of the uni's there for a semester. And man, lemme tell you, it's been one heck of a ride. I was a little bit bummed out that I'd be stationary in Melbourne studying for most of my time there, but I had a pretty small course load and...

I visited the Great Ocean Road three times in the 5 months I was down in 'Straya, lemme tell you mate, that road never gets old. I swear it gets more beautiful every time. I've got some photos from the most recent time I went, sometime the first week of December. Drove around, watched the...

3 days and 1000 kilometers What's up my dudes, so me and @Caro here from StP have been unknowingly co-occupying Melbourne. We met up at Lentils the other day and it didn't take us more than a brief introduction to decide to hitchhike the Great Ocean Road together. By the time we had finished...

So this weekend I joined a group to go beach camping and exploring up north a bit from Melbourne. Croajingolong Nat'l Park is just about halfway between Melbourne and Sydney (about 6 hours drive from each) aka literally in the middle of nowhere. We set up on the beach, started a fire and broke...

Hey y'all, so I've been in the land down under for about a week now! Yesterday I went out into the mountains, a few hours outside of Melbourne, to Yarra Ranges National Park with another StP member, @Aussie Timm ! The rainforest! The cars around here have bull bars in case a kangaroo...

Hey everyone ! I am new to this Site, 24 yr Old, VanDweller from Sydney, Australia Interested in meeting like-minded people who also appreciate the nomadic lifestyle and hearing about their journeys :)

If you're looking for some inspiration for crazy bike adventures, checkout this website: www.onemanonebikeoneworld.com he's also got an hour long movie on vimeo:

I've noticed that compared to other parts of the world this scene seems dead in Australia, I'd definitely want to get to know some Australians, especially South Australians who are/would be interested in hitchhiking or train hopping?

Australia's had a pretty long history of squatting, the following link is worth looking into if you're interested in that history. http://www.australianmuseumofsquatting.org/

Hello, looking through this site, seems to lack Australians. Shame! Done a fair bit of squatting, hitching. Happy to answer questions regarding that sort of thing from an Australian perspective. Interested in minimalist solar. Have a mountain shack that I visit irregularly. Will travel in...

Hi. Me and a few friends have been trying to find more of a gutter punk scene here in Australia. Anyone know anything about if it's still around here?

Hey guys as i'm from Australia I thought I would share with you a documentary of a true blue aussie who has made his home on the roads of Australia for the past 30 years. Ill add a link for the short documentary, when you go into the website were the documentary is, under index click on The...

Hello everyone my name is Tom and i'm from Australia, I'm a 26 year old male and i'm ready to hit the road. I'm sick of living the same old boring day to day life in my home town so I wanna make the roads of Australia my home. Any tips or advice would be great. cheers for listening to my rant.