Walking to Birdsville with nine goats

As a young man, Owen Davies whet his appetite for Australia's wide open spaces by doing a stint on a million-acre station in the Pilbara. Over the next few years, he would turn his hand to wool growing, opal mining, hunting safaris and an eco-tourism business in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
But Owen would soon grow restless for the remote country. So — with a mob of goats and two dogs — he stepped out on what would become a ninety-eight day trek down to the Georgina River.

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