Heysen Trail
Section 5: Green Line Fever
It’s been a weird section. Long tracts of paddock and back road contrasted with narrow easements of preserved nature corridors and the occasional conservation park before finally arriving in the Barossa. While it hasn’t been a ’hard’ section, it has felt long. A section to get done rather than to take in, though it hasn’t […]
Section 5: The In-Between Places
Burra to Tanunda, getting back to bigger towns and wine country
Section 4: We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends
Crystal Brook to Burra with some wild weather and a few disasters
Section 4: Not Giants but Windmills
I’ve spent a lot of time over this section thinking about Don Quixote. This is partly because we walked under the massive blades of wind turbines outside of Hallett, providing a convenient literary parallel; and partly because I’m tickled by the quixotic nature of what we’re doing. Following the trail means rejecting logic. We will […]
Section 3: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
The trek from Quorn to Crystal Brook has been difficult, beautiful and graced by kindness, support and the benefits of excellent postal service. The seven days it has taken have felt closer to a fortnight with the first three days involving big climbs up and down Mount Brown and Mount Remarkable while also seeing us […]
Section 2: “You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes”.
Section 2 from Hawker to Quorn has been equal parts challenging and stunning. We have spent the last five days in some truly wild places, traversing narrow and rocky creek beds, spectacular gorges, stony plains and wind swept ridge tops. Our days have taken on a rhythm of eating, hiking and sleeping. We are covering […]
