so much of where I am today, I owe to adventure

An ‘ordinary’ adventurer

I consider myself an “ordinary adventurer”. I haven’t climbed Mount Everest (…yet) or set any world records but I have done some cool stuff like hiking 3,000km from one end of New Zealand to the other and kayaking 2,400km solo down the length of the Murray River.

Then there are the smaller adventures, like hiking 1,000km solo from Perth to Albany in WA, sailing 700km up the Queensland coast, mountain biking coast to coast across England, scuba diving limestone caves in Palau, climbing through ice caves 30 metres beneath an Austrian glacier, ice-trekking across the roof of Australia for five days, and much more.

These journeys have allowed me to discover that I’m capable of far more than I gave myself credit for, and left me wondering what more I could achieve. They’ve stretched me, taught me courage, self belief, problem solving and fundamentally changed the course of my life for the better!

Hiking 3,000km from one end of New Zealand to the other

  • Five months of walking on Te Araroa

  • Remote beaches

  • Tangled forests

  • Exposed mountain ridges

  • Trackless terrain

  • Snowstorms

  • Gales strong enough to blow me off my feet

  • Two dislocated shoulders

  • Countless unbridged river crossings

  • and a hiking buddy that pulled out on Day Two

paddling 2,400km down the murray river, from alpine to ocean

2,400km down the navigable length of the Murray River

  • 76 days (60 paddling) from the foothills of the snow-capped Alps in NSW to the Southern Ocean in SA

  • Solo

  • Three days of rapids

  • Wild camping

  • Headwinds

  • Waves

  • 15 locks

  • Spiders and snakes

  • Three massive lakes (one 37km across)

  • Countless boats and jet skis to dodge

Watch the highlights reel…