Oz Around Australia on a Triumph (PB) - Description
Geoff Hill and Colin O'Carroll take on Australia’s legendary
Highway 1 on their trusty Triumph motorbikes, circumnavigating the country from
Adelaide to Adelaide.
At over 15,000 miles long, Highway 1 is the
world’s longest national highway, covering practically every major inhabited
part of Australia
– capital cities, busy holiday resorts, dramatic coastlines, tropical forests,
scrublands and deserts.
Join Colin – who grew up in Australia
wrestling sharks, snogging kangaroos and riding dirt bikes – and Geoff, who has
never snogged a kangaroo, as they take on wombats, emus and a plague of giant grasshoppers
in an adventure that takes them from Port Fairy – a little town that used to be
known as Belfast – to Botany Bay, Sydney and across the wilderness of the
Nullarbor desert. And follow the extraordinary story of Australia, old
by a cast that includes Captain James Cook, Crocodile Dundee, countless
migrants and settlers, legendary explorers Robert Burke and William Wills, the
folk hero Ned Kelly, and an unreliable camper van called Matilda.
Bluebird Productions filmed Geoff and Colin
on their trip; the BBC Channel 4 and Setanta have all expressed an interest in
broadcasting the documentary.
