Discover BelVentures

I'm Bel, a country NSW girl now calling Southeast Queensland home.

For the past 16 years, I've worked in open-cut mining. It's given me an incredible career and helped fund some pretty big dreams, but somewhere along the way I realised I didn't want to spend my whole life waiting for my next break from work to actually live it.

In 2020, I brought my first motorhome and started travelling Australia with my beautiful dog Lilah and cheeky bird Ruby. What began as weekend escapes quickly became one of the best decisions I've ever made. Travel gave me independence, confidence and a completely different perspective on what I wanted my life to look like.

One day. I'd love for Belventures to become my fulltime life and career - travelling Australia, sharing the places me discover, creating useful content for other travelers and eventually showing our future family how incredible this country is.

Until then, we're figuring it out as we go.

Zac is a coastal NSW boy through and through - happiest anywhere near the ocean, preferably with a speargun in hand and a cold Great Northern waiting at the end of the day.

For the past nine years, he's worked in open-cut mining, but when he's off the clock, you'll find him chasing the coast and making the most of his time away from work.

He's the more laid-back half of BelVentures, usually happy to go along with whatever adventure Bel has planned.... as long as there's good food, a good view and the beer is cold.

Ruby is our 8 year old female Eclectus parrot, full time adventurer, professional poser and quite possibly one of the most well travelled parrots in Australia.

She absolutely loves coming along for the ride and has already seen more of Australia than most people - always safely secured in her harness and ready to meet anyone who crosses her path. Ruby loves people, loves attention and has never been one to turn down an opportunity for a photo.

She's generally pretty fearless but when something looks a little questionable, there's only one place to go: straight to dads shoulder - the highest and obviously safest seat in the house.

Ruby also has standards when it comes to life on the road. Her perfect day starts with fresh passionfruit for breakfast and finishes with a nice hot dinner - preferably with a little cooked steak included