So today the extraordinarily trusty mountain bike was temporarily ditched in favour of my equally trusty, but much slower moving hiking boots. I also had a companion for the first time in my wife Sally. It must be said that this was extremely good!! Although I would never have counted myself as lonely at any stage so far, I have felt the enormity of the lands crossed and the fact that this highlights how alone you are. I had travelled from Dead Horse Gap to Benam...

Today marks the end of the mountain bike leg. Ive pushed hard over the last couple of days to get to Omeo asap. As I mentioned on yesterday's blog I was a fair bit ahead of where I expected to be. Today followed suit and I pushed hard to make it Omeo this afternoon. A total day of around 70kms! Much of which was on the black stripe, a very hot way of traveling today it must be said!! The real highlight was on the steepest part of the major hill between Benambra a...

Well quite the eventful day!! I've crossed into Victoria, the photo accompanying this blog is one foot in each state!! Not too many places you can straddle the mighty Murray. That place was Cowombat Flat, which I last visited at about age 14 with Venturers. A hiking and caving trip, good fun! It has not changed at all, right down to the DC3 parts scattered around, following a plane crash some years back. One person died. The track to this point was well benched ...

Here we go!!!

Just to take it back a little, the food my friends!!!