Gaynor Schoeman - Canning Walker - solo

I'd like to know how people find the time for this sort of thing! Michael

From what I understand he is kind of retired so do hope it is not his health and that Pam too is OK, can only imagine how difficult it must be.

their motto must be
"There's time to rest when you're dead, get out and do something instead!!"

:-)

cheers

He is a she! I'd kill for a few months off LOL!! Michael

"He is a she!"
Really
"Pam Armstrong's reason for walking the CSR ?......bcos she can!!! When ya off load ur kids & become a 'free spirit" u can do anything & after all she will be the hero super woman at the end of it all , with her "man" friend Tony Rhodes (hope he has ear-plugs)....!!!!!"

I guess I read that wrong then :-)

cheers

Cookie

Re Driver

I have spoken with both Pam and Tony in person and aware of the reasons. They had a falling out before arriving in Kunawarritji, tried to patch it up in the week they stayed here, decided they could carry on together but one and a half days into restarting the walk, they had a final blow up and returned to Kunawarritji going their separate ways.

Tony is a stone mason and works when required. He took off time until August to help Pam out.

Keeping a team happy and pulling together takes commitment and effort from all parties and consideration of everyones needs.

Michael

Finding the time to live?

I owned two businesses in South Africa in the Film Industry. Sold them 4.5 years ago and been spending the money in Australia ever since. Money this past year has run dry. It is likely to be my last holiday here for some time. However.....

When I am on the Canning amazing things occur - something is now afoot for me that might change all that ... but the walk continues. It looks like I will be in Kunawarritji for a week due to developments offshore and then I head south again

Thanks for the reply, although not the best thing it is good news that it isn't health related.

It would be quite difficult to have a level of acrimony and is probably for the best that it happened so close to Kunawarritji.

So Graham and his wife are no longer running the servo and the shop?

I think you are heading into the best part of the trip now - loved the Southern section

Rest & Stay Safe

cheers

Thank you Barry.

My webman has doubled the bandwidth and I have asked friends in South Africa to keep an eye on it and phone the web host if the problem reoccurs. Should be ok now.

Before the walk I was not sure I would be able to do a half marathon - 21km a day, 6 days a week for 3 months, but very glad that this was achievable for the first 26 days on the track, especially as I was carrying a pack weight that was/is very heavy. Averaged 23.5km according to Andy, who enjoys cruching numbers and that I think includes my rest days - only 2.5 over the entire period.

I have a lengthy delay in Kunawarritji as I attend to legal documentation with South Africa that requires my attention before I continue. The delay in getting back on the track makes me a little nervous. Don't want to get too comfortable here in the Tourist Motel in Kunawarritji. Bill and Raylene are really taking good care of me and making me very comfortable and welcome. All this makes it harder to go back out into the 'cold' again. Yes, it is cold here and has been for awhile now.

I am so very grateful to Andy for his help in laying the supply drops with me and making them safe and easy for me to find. I really do owe him a lot.

When we layed the drops we measured the distance for the walk and it actually works out closer to 1650km, rather than 1850km as I originally thought. The additional distance listed on the ExplorOz Trek notes must be to the dead wells and excursions. Pam and I intend/ed to walk only the track itself and to the places with water like Durba.

Pam has done incredibly well. I take my hat off to her. She was walking around 30km a day which is tough. I am hoping that she accepts me offer to be her support driver in September and completes this walk this year. It is not something you want to leave undone after she was so close - 2/3's of the way there.

Every day I am out here, I know how easily my own walk could come to an end. It just takes a twisted ankle, injury strain to my feet to re-occur, my back going 'out' as I lift the heavy pack onto my back each day, another encounter with bull camels that ends with me kicked and stomped on, a broken leg when I walk off track through the brush and dunes, so many things could happen - and I am well aware that it could all end very badly and suddenly.

But that is what makes each day beautiful and wonderful to be a part of. It could be my last and I know that, so each day I wake up and break camp and start walking .... and I give thanks.

Thank you for your encouragement and positive vibes as always Phil.

The travellers have been wonderful and some have donated directly to me for the quadriplegic wheelchair. Others will be doing so via the website www.canningwalker.com. Will update the website in a few days with details and photos.

So many Canning Travellers work with people with disabilities. I have been impressed. Many are nurses and carers and there is incredible empathy.

Will upload a couple of photos to Facebook tomorrow.

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Look forward to meeting you on the track Wayne.

My depatrure from Kunawarritji has been delayed due to me needing to be in contact with South Africa until mid to the end of next week. So I am likely to be leaving Kun when you leave Wiluna.

The Wiluna police station are tracking me on SPOT so you might be able to ask for an update on my loaction from them :-)

Bring snorkel and fins :-)))) Been a little wet out here, but travellers enjoying the adventure and the track dries out fast with the wind.

G