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Breaking the Cycle Across Australia #5: The Birdsville Track
Dates – 22nd – 26th June | Total distance 1386 km 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,…
Breaking the Cycle Across Australia 2023 #4: Birdsville, Don Rowlands, and the Wangkangurru culture
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…
Breaking the Cycle Across Australia 2023 #3: The Long Way to Birdsville
Dates – 14th-19th June | Distance – 519km | Total distance – 859km DAY 4 | INNAMINCKA TO THE DIG TREE | 58KM On reaching Innamincka, the first thing we needed to find out was whether I could cycle to Birdsville…
Breaking the Cycle Across Australia 2023 #2: Adapting from the Start
Start (Toona Gate Road, 90km from Tibooburra) – Innamincka Dates – 11th – 13th June Distance – 340.1km Our drive up to Tibooburra ended up being quite eventful. We collected Gelareh from the airport and headed north but the main…
Breaking the Cycle Across Australia 2023 #1
BACK OUT THERE Welcome to the first blog for Breaking the Cycle Across Australia 2023. Many of you will remember that in 2021 I began this 7500km journey from Cape Byron, Australia’s most easterly point with the aim of finishing…
Breaking the Cycle Antarctica – the longest day: to the finish
Day 5 12th February | Distance – 54km | Total distance – 201km Again the forecast was for good weather. Gale-force winds are a regular occurrence around Schirmacher Oasis/Novo so we were lucky to have the forces of nature on…
Breaking the Cycle Antarctica – A Beautiful Day?
Day 4 11th February | Distance – 40km | Total distance – 147km Finally a beautiful day – sunny, clear and cold. It was still -17C when I set off and no doubt with the wind chill, it would have been…
Breaking the Cycle Antarctica – Pushing through, whatever the conditions
Day 2 9th February | Distance – 32km |Total distance – 67km The uphill, into the wind battle resumed on some pretty soft snow. I decided to divide my day into 10km segments, then take a break, refuel, warm up…