The team

The QLD Travel team

Meet the writers behind QLD Travel.

Mick Gallagher
Tours & experiences editor

Mick handles anything with an operator and a meeting point — day trips, multi-day adventures, fishing charters, reef runs. He's been on more boats than he can count and has a particular love for small-group walks in the World Heritage areas of Tasmania and the Top End.

569 articles
Beth Hartley
Caravan parks & camping

Beth's been scouting caravan parks across Australia since the van life thing was just called "going camping". Power site or unpowered, dump point or not, family-friendly or strictly grey-nomad — if it's got a number on a key tag, she's probably stayed there.

562 articles
Sam Davies
Destinations & guides

Sam pulls the destination guides together from what our team has actually visited and what travellers tell us is worth the detour. Grew up between the Sunshine Coast and Adelaide; can argue for hours about which has the better beaches.

355 articles
Jess Rowe
Travel writing & research

Jess writes the long-form pieces and tracks down the practical stuff travellers actually need — opening hours, road conditions, the unwritten rules locals know. Former remote-area nurse turned travel writer; still carries a snake-bite kit out of habit.

325 articles