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Our host, Scott Hillier is joined on Creek to Coast each week by camping fanatic Martin Bowerman, camp oven cooking specialist Frank "Tommo" Thompson, boating and fishing guru Gary Howard, and fellow outdoor enthusiasts Dean Miller, Richard Champion, Taryn Onofaro and surfer Liz Cantor. 

Scott Hillier - Host

If Creek to Coast had to nominate the program’s equivalent of the class clown, there’s no question that Scott Hillier would get the nod. But that’s not using the term "class clown" in a negative sense. It’s in that "lovable larrikin" way. Scotty is irrepressible; his humour, his friendliness and his absolute enthusiasm for every day life and living seem to know no bounds.

Television viewers have taken to Scott’s natural and unpretentious style of TV story telling. Reeling in a big game fish for the cameras as host on Creek to Coast, or before that on Brownie’s Coastwatch, Scott would holler, yell and whoop it up, his delight saying more than any detailed how-to-fish guide could.

But that’s how Scott is, and how he’s always has been, ever since he could toddle over the sand dunes to the beach from the family home on the Sunshine Coast when he got his first "foamy" (surfboard) at age 5.

Originally Scott studied for a career in hospitality and spent a few years as a recreation supervisor at a swanky Sunshine Coast resort. But, he eventually needed to be closer to the water, and joined the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol as a patrol officer.

These days, Scott has a stack of media commitments in addition to Creek to Coast. His fishing reports and are heard on McQuarie Regional Radio in Townsville. He’s also on Seven’s Local News in Townsville and Carins every Friday, and he contributes fishing reports to The Courier-Mail and the Cairns Post.

Although born and bred on the Sunshine Coast, Scott now lives in Ingham with his wife Helga, and two sons Bailey and Ben, who’ve also inherited their dad’s love of the water.

Scott appears as host for Creek to Coast every Saturday.

Martin Bowerman

Dean MillerQueenslander, Martin Bowerman has traveled all over the world, the majority of the time carrying a tent and a fishing rod.

He started work as a journalist at The Courier Mail, and then a few years later took off to work in London and backpacked his way, with a tent of course, through Europe, Turkey and Morocco.

He is an accomplished author of fishing and camping books, and brings his knowledge of these subjects to Creek to Coast each week.

Martin lives on the Gold Coast and is married with two children, Melissa and Scott.

Frank "Tommo" Thompson

Dean Miller

Tommo, as he is better known, is a legendary camp oven cooking specialist who has published several books on the subject.

Tommo’s life has been one big adventure. After moving from Harden to Forbes to Mungindi with the family as a child, Tommo was educated in Sydney. Leaving school, Tommo worked in the shearing sheds, firstly as a rouseabout, then as a shearer.

Tommo’s recipes have been gathered from the hundreds of jobs, and the many different people he has met across Australia in his travels.

Tommo travels Australia presenting his camp oven cooking skills at all the major Caravanning and Camping shows, where his camp oven treats and bush yarns have the crowds begging for more.

You can catch Tommo’s camp oven cooking adventures Saturday on Creek to Coast.  

Gary Howard

Dean Miller

Gary Howard is Creek to Coast’s fishing and boating specialist.

His passion for fishing has taken him from the remote regions of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, to the quiet streams of our inland waterways and the yellow fin tuna grounds of Bermagui. However, the waters of South East Queensland remain his primary fishing areas, with Fraser Island being his favourite.

In addition to Gary's television work, he's had an extensive career writing for many boating and fishing magazines and filing reports for various radio programs.

Outside his media commitments, Gary runs his own fishing rod manufacturing business, supplying quality fishing rods throughout Australia and parts of the South Pacific.

Gary lives in Brisbane and is married with a young son Riley and daughter Renee and appears on Creek to Coast every Saturday.  

Taryn Onofaro

TarynReporting on Creek to Coast given Taryn Onofaro the opportunity to embrace her zest for life and discover more of Queensland, which became her home in January 2001 when she relocated from Perth.

From the moment she could walk, Taryn was dancing. Trained in classical, jazz, tap, neo-classical and acrobatics, Taryn looked set to follow in the footsteps of her dancing mother, grandmother and aunt.  

In her late teens, Taryn decided to pursue her interest in media, enrolling in a broadcasting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

During this time Taryn started working as a radio announcer at 6EBAFM, co-presenting and producing breakfast radio. She also appeared in television commercials, did voice-over work, and was one of the faces on community television station Access 31 in Perth, before she moved to Brisbane for commercial television opportunities.

Taryn loved the outdoors. She’s travelled around America, parts of Asia and Europe. Since starting work on Creek to Coast, Taryn has more than proven her abilities and fearlessness covering stories on everything from offshore angling and diving to four wheel driving.

Taryn appears every Saturday on Creek to Coast.

 

Dean Miller

Dean MillerQueensland Weekender host Dean Miller is a surfer, fisherman, 4WD and camping fanatic who gets to combine his love of all things outdoors when he presents stories on Creek to Coast.

Dean is well-known to south east Queenslanders as a result of his extensive radio work on Triple M Brisbane’s breakfast show, the Gold Coast’s SEA FM, 4BC and RIVER 94.9.

Dean’s first fishing experiences were mixing it up with Giant Trevally and Barracuda off Groote Eylant in the Golf of Carpentaria. 4WD is a passion these days as Dean and his family love to visit Double Island Point, Moreton and Fraser Islands, and camping or renting a beach house.

Dean is the very proud father of two gorgeous young kids, a daughter Jordan and a son Harrison.

You can catch Dean on Creek to Coast every Saturday.

 

 

Richard Champion

Richard Champion or ‘Champs’ as he is better known, has had a  football career spanning 14 years, including 10 years with the Brisbane Bears / Brisbane Lions before his retirement at the end of the 2000 season.

Champs has a multi-talented personality, always prominent in the club's off-field activities and, in 1998 won an AFL Talent Show on Network Seven for his marvelous impersonation of Jimmy Barnes.

That singing talent was put to good use when Champs competed in the popular Seven program “It Takes Two”.

You can also catch Champs on a variety of radio shows, but on Creek to Coast he shines as an action and adventure man.

There is no challenge that Champs has backed away from and his competitive nature and high level of fitness make him an obvious choice for the tougher assignments.

Champs loves golf, and intends to call Brisbane home for many years to come with his wife Anne-Marie and daughters Georgia and Grace.

Liz Cantor

After a whirl wind year in 2005 which saw Liz beat 12 other contestants to win Channel 7’s reality show “The Mole”, the self confessed water baby has become a favourite on both Creek to Coast and The Great South East.

At 16 Liz moved with her family from west of Brisbane to Sunshine Beach, Noosa. This saw her say goodbye to her obsession for horse riding and focus on her surfing. Both her father and brother are surfers and Liz was introduced to the ocean before she could walk. She gained a sponsorship from Billabong and was a competitive surfer on the Australian Junior Series for five years.

During this time Liz also found a part time job as a surf judge, and became the first female judge on a World Circuit Tour level. Through her surfing Liz traveled to Fiji, Tahiti, The Maldives, Hawaii and Europe.

Liz still tries to surf everyday, but after competing a Bachelor of Communications at Griffith University her gift of the gab, love for writing and strong interest in Media and Journalism saw her follow a different path.

These days when Liz isn’t working for Creek to Coast or The Great South East, or presenting the Queenslander surf report, she loves to escape for a weekend of camping and surfing.

Liz lives for adventure and isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty!

 

 

 

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