19/12/2025
Some trips fade. Others become stories you tell forever.
September 2019. Phil and Julieโs first proper off-grid stay in their ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ต ๐ฆ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ took them deep into western Queensland, to Nat Buchanan Bridge on Cornish Creek. No caravan park. No neighbours. Just red dirt, still air and a billabong below the van.
Phil carved steps into the embankment with a recovery shovel so Julie could get down safely. He swears she glided down at sunset like royalty. Weโll take his word for it.
At night, they dragged their chairs into an open paddock and watched a sky untouched by light pollution for 70 kilometres. Stars, planets, satellites โ even the International Space Station drifting past while they sat officially in the middle of nowhere.
Then came the true off-grid moment.
Water ran out mid-shower. Shampoo applied. Panic.
Phil rushed in with a jerry canโฆ only for Julie to discover the rescue water was ice cold. Somewhere above Queensland, the space station probably slowed down to investigate.
They stayed an extra night, shared quiet drinks by the fire and left knowing theyโd experienced something special.
The 2019 Sunseeker Mirage Sport didnโt just take them places. It gave them the freedom to stay longer, leave the crowds behind and turn ordinary trips into stories worth retelling.
And speaking of stories โ Phil happens to run a YouTube channel called Medium Rare Poetry, writing under the delightfully named pseudonym Phil A. Mignon. Turns out, when you give a poet a caravan and the outback, the result is pretty bloody magic.
And hereโs the quiet truth.
Adventures like this arenโt rare. Theyโre still happening.
At some point, every story like this starts the same way โ with a caravan and the decision to go.
