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A couple of Bendigo blokes decided to finish the doomed journey of Burke and Wills
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In the steps of explorers
IT was 1593.8 kilometres, give or take a metre, but the self-named Mad Bastards decided it was fine to round it up. And so, Mick Ellis and John Esnouf walked 1600 kms in 50 days, from the infamous Dig Tree in Queensland to Port Melbourne, all in the name of “unfinished business�. The Mad Bastards are a group of Bendigo friends who walk together, not just your round the Kennington Reservoir-type walk, but long tramps that usually take a week. Their first such escapade was from Robe to Bendigo 10 years ago, a kind of re-enactment of the treks made by Chinese in the 1850s to South Australian ports then overland to the goldfields, in order to escape the racist tax on Chinese arrivals. Up to 22 people can set off on these walks, although it’s more often a dozen or so and sometimes it’s a mere couple of hundred kilometres, like the Melbourne-to-Bendigo stroll, covering about 30 kms a day. John and Mick, however, are now officially the maddest bastards of the group. The idea first came to John about three or four years ago. He would get enthused, then cool off, thinking it was all a little too mad. “I’d put it on the backburner,� he says, “then last November, I decided to get serious about it.� This year is the 150th anniversary of the ill-fated attempt by Robert Burke and William Wills to cross Australia from south to north. Setting off from Menindee near Broken Hill in August 1860, it was April 21, 1861,
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