After a long rainy night in a leaky tent, we awoke at 4.30am to the sound of rain and a roaring creek. I could barely hear our trek leader John’s voice over all the noise and I was sure I had only just fallen asleep about half an hour before this…broken sleep was something we were all going to have…
In the Papuan campaign, thought to be the most significant battle fought by Australians in World War II, 2165 Australians were killed, 607 died on the Kokoda Track, 3533 were wounded and 29,000 suffered from tropical disease. Forced to repel a Japanese invasion force, which landed at Gona on the north coast of Papua on 21 July 1942, the Aussies…
After an interesting night at the Holiday Inn in Port Moresby, complete with power failures, police activity outside the hotel and some rather loud screaming in the hallways and ridiculous hours, we departed the hotel for the airport at 5.30am to catch our flight to Popondetta. We were all very excited and pumped at the airport. We met another…
After a casual dinner and a few beers we had a great night’s sleep at the Stamford last night, and we’re ready to begin our adventure! We met Zak, James and Ian at the airport this morning. Wonderful to see Zak come along after his family lost their house in the Springwood fires this week. It will be an emotional…
It’s been almost a year in the making, and I’m a week away from leaving! How the hell did I get here! It started in December 2012. I made the decision to undertake the trek of my life. I signed the dotted line and paid my registration fee for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service – Trek for Choppers. Then it…
The day started out wet, cold, and just a little miserable! We were all a bit weary at the thought of the climbing ahead. Magically though, as we pulled away from the hotel in our bus, the rain stopped and the clouds cleared, giving us a pretty spectacular day which is something for China… It was so clear that we could see the Beijing…
Well day 2 on the wall was an epic effort! After our 2 hour bus trip out of Beijing, we landed on the Jinshaling section of the wall, northern pass gate Gubeikou ready for a 16km trek. It started off quite hot, with a steep mountain climb through the bush to get to the wall. This was a little tough…
After our first few hours on the Wall yesterday afternoon, we spent the night in a magical little lodge high up in the mountains. Breathtakingly beautiful and very serene. We are all pretty pumped about this walk and our first taste of many many steps yesterday gave us a good indication of what the rest of the trek is going…
Faithfull Living 