Inspiring Travel Writing from Cameron Wilson
Cameron resides in his home town of Sydney, where most days start with a run and swim at Coogee Beach. His stories and photos have appeared in: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), Herald Sun (Melbourne), The Sun-Herald (Sydney), Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth), Condé Nast Traveller (Australia edition), The New York Post and the UK's Sunday Telegraph and The Independent.
From 1999 to 2000, Cameron was based in London as part of the Rough Guides editorial team. He has edited and researched best-selling guidebooks on Australia, the USA, Egypt, Tuscany & Umbria, Holland, Vietnam and Sydney. In 2002 he co-authored the Rough Guide to the Rocky Mountains, and briefly sold his soul to work as a researcher on Australias leading travel TV program, The Great Outdoors.
From 1999 to 2000, Cameron was based in London as part of the Rough Guides editorial team. He has edited and researched best-selling guidebooks on Australia, the USA, Egypt, Tuscany & Umbria, Holland, Vietnam and Sydney. In 2002 he co-authored the Rough Guide to the Rocky Mountains, and briefly sold his soul to work as a researcher on Australias leading travel TV program, The Great Outdoors.
Articles by Cameron Wilson
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Australia's other great barrier reef
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
Ningaloo Marine Park. A world away from the heavy tourist traffic and battered reefs of the Queensland coast, Ningaloo Marine Park is situated off the remote north coast of Western Australia ? which means you have to want to get there. This still-...
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Island-Hop in Croatia
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Cameron Wilson
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Croatia
From memory, the curtain of islands sheltering Croatia's Dalmatian coast runs to about 1,400. But who cares about the facts and figures when the water here is clearer than the South Pacific on its best day, and the possibilities for sailing and...
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Power Living Yoga Retreat
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Otford
“By the end of the weekend, some of you are going to hate me.” Duncan Peak, instructor and ringmaster of this, my very first yoga retreat, is nodding his way around the room. “That’s cool, because you’re going to have breakthroughs too.” Hate?...
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The Pompeii Excavation
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Cameron Wilson
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Italy
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Campania
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Pompeii
Through much of the first two weeks of August in AD79, residents of the Roman town of Pompeii were increasingly woken in the night by rumblings emanating from a nearby mountain. The air became thick with floating ash, which people dealt with as best...
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Namibia
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Cameron Wilson
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Namibia
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Etosha National Park Region
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Etosha National Park
At Otjitotongwe Cheetah Park in northern Namibia, you get to meet the cats and give them a good scratch behind the ears. Usually this goes off without a hitch, but six-year old Zeeu has snagged a canine on my tatty t-shirt and now we’re both...
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Australia's Top Ten Surf Beaches
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Sydney
As the home of iconic surf labels Quicksilver, Rip Curl and Billabong and birthplace of a long line of world surfing champions, Australia could probably be forgiven for taking itself a bit too seriously when it comes to surf culture. Happily...
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Rafting the Franklin
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
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Tasmania
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Tasmania City
“Portage” is an indispensable word in the river rafters’ lexicon. Originally French, its dictionary translation is “the carrying of boats or goods between two navigable waters”. I had reason to reflect upon the innocuousness of both the word itself...
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Diving the Solitary Islands
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Cameron Wilson
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United Kingdom
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Wales
It's hard to say at precisely what point The Big Banana lost its status as tourism icon for the NSW north coast, but its slide into cultural obscurity probably coincided with the demise of the thin leather tie. These days, a visit to Coffs Harbour...
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Diving Ningaloo Reef
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
“We’ve got a manta ray just surfaced, about two hundred feet to starboard”. The voice of Carl, our dive master for the day, betrays the fact that this is by no means an unusual occurrence and certainly nothing to get worked up...
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Kings Creek Station
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Cameron Wilson
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Australia
Slipping on a kangaroo-skin glove, I climbed into the saddle and wrapped my fingers tight around its wooden pommel, exactly as station boss Ian Conway had instructed me. At this point it was hard to say which was the more terrifying prospect...