Dedicated camping pillows offer a compact and practical alternative to hauling a full-size household pillow from home. They pack down small, weigh next to nothing in many cases and are purpose-built for outdoor sleeping conditions. The best camping pillow for you will depend on how you camp, how much you’re carrying and how you prefer to sleep.
Atkinson Dam is one of the more accessible freshwater fishing spots within easy reach of Brisbane, Ipswich and Toowoomba. Also known as Lake Atkinson, it sits east of Gatton and supplies irrigation water to the Lower Lockyer Valley, and it has built a reputation as a relaxed, low-barrier place to wet a line.
By 2026, the range of backpacking water filters available in Australia has settled into a handful of well-understood categories: featherweight squeeze filters, hands-free gravity systems, traditional hand pumps, bottle-integrated filters and simple straw filters.
The squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) is one of the more impressive members of that group. It is bigger than the sugar glider, considerably bigger than the tiny feathertail glider, and capable of covering remarkable distances through the air between trees. It is also almost entirely nocturnal, which is exactly why so few people encounter one.
There is something about a kid having their own chair at camp that just works. It gives them a spot, a sense of ownership, and somewhere to land between swimming and dinner when they are too tired to be useful but too wired to sit still…
Few Australian animals stop people in their tracks quite like the Short-beaked Echidna. With its coat of protective spines, long narrow snout, powerful digging claws and extraordinary sticky tongue, this compact creature looks like something pieced together from several different animals — and in many ways, that is exactly what makes it so fascinating.
Relying solely on your vehicle’s alternator or hunting down powered campsites puts real limits on where you can go and how long you can stay. A portable solar setup breaks those limits. You can keep your camping fridge cold, charge your devices, run your LED lights after dark, and skip the generator altogether — all while sitting under the stars at an unpowered site deep in the bush.
The sugar glider is a small, gliding possum native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and parts of eastern Indonesia. It belongs to the marsupial order — the same broad group as kangaroos, wombats, and koalas — meaning its young are born undeveloped and complete their growth inside a pouch.
There are few wildlife encounters quite like watching a brushtail possum navigate its way through the canopy on a clear Queensland night. Eyes wide, tail curled around a branch, moving with a quiet confidence that suggests it has done this thousands of times before — because it has.
There are some wildlife encounters you simply don’t forget. Spotting a feathertail glider launching silently between gum trees on a warm Queensland evening is one of them. Tiny, fast, and utterly extraordinary, this little creature is one of Australia’s most remarkable native mammals — and if you’re spending time in the Lockyer Valley bushland, you may just be sharing the canopy with one.
