An arduous combination of four flights guided me from Tel Aviv, Israel all the way to Darwin Australia. Long haul flights never get easier but when there is an epic week of adventures waiting for you at the other end, you pull through. This week Dan Moore and I arrived in Darwin, which is in the …
NORTHERN TERRITORY
I boarded a flight from Bali at midnight, destined for the Aussie outback. I had labeled it the death flight. It was a duo of three-hour flights, which left me with only one and a half hours of sleep. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal but I at 8 am when I arrived it …
It was 5 days of craziness out at Uluru, Kings Canyon, the waterholes and everything else in between. However, we cruised back into civilization to our new home of Alice Springs. We would stay for two nights in the town of 28,000. Our mission in Alice Springs was to get high in the early hours …
When you think of the desert, especially the harsh Aussie desert, the thoughts that spring to mind are dusty, dry, hot and endless plains of red sand. What most people don’t know is that in the middle of the outback you can find the most beautiful Oasis. Today we visited Ormiston Waterhole and Ellery Creek …
Another day in the Aussie outback and another ridiculously early start. At 4 am, I carried my coffee out of the hotel room and loaded up the gear into the car for a sunrise adventure to Kings Canyon. The hike to reach Kings Canyon is a short 30-minute trek in the dark. It followed a …
The harsh ring of my alarm at 430 am let me know that it was time for another adventure. I’ve slept a total of 10 hours over the last three nights but I had no trouble rallying as I had been waking up for sunrise adventures of a lifetime. Over the past day and a …
At the start of the year, I made a tentative bucket list of places I wanted to visit. I was in no rush to reach these locations, they just captivated me enough to find a spot on my list of must-visit spots before I die. One of them was closer to home than the rest. …