PILGRIMAGE: FROM DUBBO TO BOURKE
25th October - 1st November, 2020
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The wide red country around Bourke on the Darling is Paul’s patch and even though he’s explored it for forty years or more, it still surprises him. That’s mostly because it’s story-rich. And it’s not just local yarns either – there are stories there that will knock your socks off. Explorers, poets, bushrangers, cameleers, riverboat captains, and a host of plain folk are ready to tell us extraordinary things about our own country that we would never have realised.
For Paul, the most inspiring are the visionaries who shaped Australia with their faith. Why don’t you join Paul and he’ll do his best to send you home with a swag of tales that will leave you wide-eyed and wondering. We guarantee you’ll never see Australia quite the same way again!
To reserve your place at the next pilgrimage contact Olive Tree Travel
1300 550 830 or email [email protected]
For Paul, the most inspiring are the visionaries who shaped Australia with their faith. Why don’t you join Paul and he’ll do his best to send you home with a swag of tales that will leave you wide-eyed and wondering. We guarantee you’ll never see Australia quite the same way again!
To reserve your place at the next pilgrimage contact Olive Tree Travel
1300 550 830 or email [email protected]
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Day 1
The wide red country round Bourke on the Darling is Paul’s patch and even though he’s explored it for forty years or more, it still surprises him. That’s mostly because it’s story-rich. READ MORE |
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Day 2
The travellers met some lions today. The first wheeled himself out of a small museum in an electric wheelchair. Austin gently corrected me when I said he was stuck in the contraption. READ MORE |
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Day 3
What do the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane, the Abbey and the Big Bogan, an ANZAC and an Outback Art gallery have in common? Absolutely nothing is the immediate answer. But then there is something. READ MORE |
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Day 4
Out past the old North Bourke Bridge Jen Greentree’s gallery opened the eyes of our pilgrims to the moods and colours of the Outback. She paints stories of hope in ochres and... READ MORE |
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Day 5
The pilgrimage took on the nature of a sentimental journey today. Actually, it started the night before when Colin Buchanan took time to talk to Russell and Robert’s grandchildren... READ MORE |
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Day 6
Bruce Feiler, a man who took a recent pilgrimage across the Middle East in the steps of Abraham, said the big thing that happened to him on his quest was that ‘my learning went from my head to my feet... READ MORE |
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Day 7
Without really knowing it, we’d been riding with Banjo Patterson’s drover Clancy these last few days, across ‘sunlit plains extended’ and in the marshes ‘about the Overflow where the reed beds sweep and sway.’ READ MORE |
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Day 8
An easy home-leg to complete the 1200km circuit. Quiet reflection, murmured conversation, a pause in the windmill town of Gilgandra - the starting point for the Coo-ee Recruitment March of 1915. READ MORE |
