If you've ever tried to plan a Big Lap around Australia's best events, you know the problem. The Birdsville Races are on one website. The Broome Cup is on another. The country shows are buried in council newsletters. The 4WD expos are on Facebook pages you'd never find unless you already knew to look.
We spent years doing exactly that — tabbing between dozens of websites, bookmarking Facebook pages, scribbling dates on sticky notes, and still managing to drive past a ripper country show we didn't know was on until we'd already left town.
Every time we came back from a trip we'd think the same thing: "There really should be a single place for all of this." We'd search for it, not find it, and move on. Until one day we stopped waiting for someone else to build it.
We wanted one place where a grey nomad could open their laptop at a caravan park, see everything worth stopping for in the next three months, filter it down to the states on their route, and print it out before they hit the road.
— The Big Lap Events team, Western AustraliaThat's Big Lap Events. It's not fancy. It doesn't try to be everything. It just does one thing well — tells you what's on, where, and when, so you can plan your trip around the events that matter instead of finding out too late.
We're based in Western Australia, which means we have a particular soft spot for the WA events that often get overlooked — the Kimberley race cups, the Pilbara shows, the outback festivals that you have to know about to find. We make sure those are in there.
We update the calendar every month using AI to search across Australia, and we check it ourselves before it goes out. It'll never be perfect — events get cancelled, dates shift, new ones pop up — but it's the most complete traveller event calendar we know of, and we're always adding to it.
If there's an event we've missed that you reckon every grey nomad should know about, drop us a line. We genuinely want to hear from you.