User:Jeffthewalker

jeffthewalker is Jeff Johnson who, more or less on a whim, decided to walk across the Australian continent with a backpack and no support vehicle. The DeafBlind Association of NSW was chosen as the charity to benefit from the walk.

The walk started at Port Augusta, on the Spencer Gulf in South Australia on the 5th April 2007. Jeff was 66 years of age at the time. The walk followed the roads through Hawker, Blinman, Innamincka, Birdsville, Mt Isa, Cloncurry and finished at Karumba on the Gulf of Carpentaria on the 2nd of September 2007.

A total distance of just over 2,500kms (1,555 miles) was covered and 151 days was taken for the journey.