A Dangerous Business

18/09/2023

Great Ocean Walk: Day 5

Date: 15th September 2023 Start: Devil’s Kitchen Campsite End: Twelve Apostles Visitor Centre Distance Travelled: 16 km Song Currently Stuck in Head: The Only Exception by Paramore Pies Consumed at Twelve Apostles Visitor Centre: one, but it was glorious Thinking about one’s progress whilst hiking can be a funny thing at times. 4 days ago
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17/09/2023

Great Ocean Walk: Day 4

Date: 14th September 2023 Start: Johanna Beach Campsite End: Devil’s Kitchen Campsite Distance Travelled: 27 km Current Song Stuck in Head: Hold Me Like A Grudge by Fall Out Boy Number of Midges Flying Around My Head: a non-zero number, please go away! Welp, it’s here. The longest and more arduous day of this hike.
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16/09/2023

Great Ocean Walk: Day 3

Date: 13th September 2023 Start: Cape Otway Campsite End: Johanna Beach Campsite Distance Travelled: 24 km Song Currently Stuck in Head: It Must Have Been Love by Roxette Boot Status: a bit moist Have I mentioned how I suck at getting up on cold mornings? Because I suck at getting up on cold mornings. I
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15/09/2023

Great Ocean Walk: Day 2

Date: 12th September 2023 Start: Elliot Ridge Campsite End: Cape Otway Campsite Distance Travelled: 23 km Song Currently Stuck in Head: Underdressed by Gable Price and Friends Spiky Friends Made: 1 This morning was a classic Jono Southward wake up: set an early alarm, wake up, lie there for 20 minutes trying to pluck up
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14/09/2023

Great Ocean Walk: Day 1

Date: 11th September 2023 Start: Apollo Bay Information Centre End: Elliot Ridge Campsite Distance Walked: 10.1 km Song Currently Stuck in Head: Whiteshadow by Voyager Love of Hikers Wool: limitless Considering everything that happened on the Carnarvon Great Walk, it’s quite surprising that I rose today feeling awfully excited for what lay ahead of me.
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11/09/2023

Seconds Out, Round 2

Ok, so we’re doing this… -Aaron Burr, Hamilton I’ve barely had time to breathe since getting home from Carnarvon Gorge, and now I’m on the cusp of starting another trail. First things first, where am I going? Well, I’m going [snickers] southward! …I’ll see myself out… Ok ok, serious answer: I’m heading down to Victoria
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10/09/2023

Carnarvon Debrief

It’s been close to a week since I finished the Carnarvon Great Walk and re-entered civilised society. Let me tell you, proper food tastes spectacular after only eating freeze-dried meals and instant ramen. Although I would’ve downed a fat, juicy steak if given the choice, a big hearty bowl of mum’s chicken noodle soup did
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09/09/2023

Carnarvon Great Walk: Day 4

Date: 4th September 2023 Start: Consuelo Camping Zone End: Carnarvon Visitors Centre Distance Walked: 29.1 km Current Song Stuck in Head: various songs from Hamilton Desire to do any sort of hiking involving hills in the near future: nil At the third time of asking, I finally got out of bed when I said I
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08/09/2023

Carnarvon Great Walk: Day 3

Date: 3rd September 2023 Start: West Branch Walker’s Camp End: Consuelo Camping Zone Distance Walked: 17.3 km Current Song Stuck in Head: Past, Present, Future by Kings Kaleidoscope Need for shower: Extreme Apart from walking through the gorge on day 1, today has been the highlight of my trip so far. There was some nice
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07/09/2023

Carnarvon Great Walk: Day 2

Date: 2nd September 2023 Start: Gadd’s Walkers Camp End: West Branch Walkers Camp Distance Walked: 15.8 km Current Song Stuck in Head: Monsters Inc. I’m not joking, I’ve had random scenes from Monsters Inc. repeating in my head all day. Blisters: 3 Today was… bad. Not in the physically demanding way that yesterday was, more
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