Trip Reports

Stories from the road less travelled

  • The Map Patrol in the Simpson Desert

    Posted on: 05/09/14

    The Map Patrol spent over a week mapping and exploring the Simpson Desert and the surrounding Australian Outback.

    A team of six Map Patrol explorers spent a week exploring the Simpson Desert to gather information for Hema’s mapping database, testing more advanced data capture techniques and the new technologies for doing so in the process.

  • South East Queensland 2014

    Posted on: 13/05/14

    The sight of Cape Moreton Lighthouse from the beach below.

    The Map Patrol explored South East Queensland in a whirlwind month that was filled with twenty distinct 4WD trips close to Brisbane.

  • Discovering Utah by 4WD - Australian Explorers in the USA

    Posted on: 05/05/14

    Monument Valley in Utah is one of the USA's most iconic scenes.

    A couple of Australian four-wheel drivers recently headed off to the USA to discover one of the country’s most iconic off-road destinations: Utah.