Blog 6 Dates: 28th June – 3rd July Marree – Port Augusta – Woomera: 575km Total distance: 1961km — Day 18 Marree to Lyndhurst – 83km It rained solidly the whole time we were in Marree and with no chance of the Oodnadatta Track opening for at least a week, possibly two weeks, I had […]
Sustainability
The Birdsville Track
Blog 5 Days 12 – 16 Dates – 22th-26th June Total distance – 1386km The Birdsville Track – Birdsville to Marree – 527km The Birdsville Track was opened in the 1860s to walk cattle from northern Queensland and the Northern Territory to the nearest railhead in Port Augusta, which was later moved to Marree. Percy Burt was the pioneering drover credited […]
Birdsville, Don Rowlands and the Wangkangurru culture
Blog 4 Days 10 and 11 Dates – 20th-21st June Total distance – 859km Birdsville In Birdsville I arranged to meet Don Rowlands OAM, Wangkangurru elder and Munga-Thirri (Simpson Desert, Queensland) Park Ranger to learn about his lifelong commitment to re-connect and preserve the culture of his people. I learned so much over the two […]
Head down ’til the finish
Blog 13 Londres to San Francisco Pass/the Argentine-Chile border 19th – 21st April 2022 Days 51 – 53 Distance – 327km Total distance – 3248km TOTAL DISTANCE FOR 2020/2022 EXPEDITIONS – 4354km This journey began in 2020 (before the onset of the pandemic) from Cusco in Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan Empire. Given […]
Keytah Farm & Moree to Bourke
Blog 3 6th – 10th May (Days 6-10) Distance: 442km Total Distance: 1011km 6th May Keytah Farm My visit to Keytah Farm was quite possibly the most interesting ‘rest day’ I’ve ever had off the bike during an expedition! The visit to Keytah came about after I first found out about FibreTrace, a groundbreaking new […]
