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RED Hill-based artist Michael Leeworthy regularly abandons his pallet and easel in favour of donning a pair of shorts and hiking boots. Instead of heading off to paint plein air, he’s seeking fresh air and the type of inspiration that only walking through the bush can provide. It’s now 40 years since he joined the Peninsula Bushwalking Club, inspired by his parents-in-law who had just walked to the Mt Everest base camp. “I did not know anyone who did stuff like that. It literally changed my life, as the only walking
I had done before that was walking to the bar,” Leeworthy recalls. That inspiration led him on many walks in Australia and overseas, including “clocking” about 2000 kilometres along the Camino De Santiago (The Way of St James) in Spain. Last year he “celebrated” turning 70 by walking the Larapinta Trail in the Northern Territory. “Bushwalking is not for everyone, but I see it as a type of meditation,” Leeworthy says. “It's interesting that when I visit areas like Wilsons Promontory I often chat with the European visitors and ask if they are going to come to the Mornington Peninsula they usually respond ‘no’.
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Southern Peninsula News
1 May 2019