Beau Miles

Each day Beau Miles does something he's never done before.

14 de dez. de 2022

In 2007, Beau attempted to paddle 4000kms from one side of Africa to the other. Starting in Mozambique, he continued along the Southern African coa...

09 de nov. de 2016

Beau Miles' magnificent hat has lost the will to live. After fifteen years of sun and body fluids, with a heavy heart and a head full of memories B...

15 de set. de 2022

In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the...

16 de jan. de 2024

The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also ...

28 de jul. de 2022

Bass by Kayak follows a small expedition party crossing from the Australian mainland to Tasmania in sea kayaks.

08 de mar. de 2017

Beau Miles was asked to come in and talk on breaky TV about Backyard Adventuring. Beau said sure, "but why don’t I have a Backyard Adventure instea...

20 de out. de 2022

Beau Miles laces up for a different kind of world first, running 650+km of the Australian Alpine Walking Track. Traversing through the highest peak...

13 de dez. de 2016

The Monash Outdoor Education shed is awesome, aside from one feature - the office. The department asked for it to be outfitted with basic shelving ...

13 de jun. de 2019

Beau Miles searches the bush for his cameraman's wallet

27 de jun. de 2022

Following two rivers, one drain, one sea and one creek, it turns out that paddling to work, which ends up being mostly a drag, over four full days,...

20 de jun. de 2021

Beau Miles runs a half marathon with a rock and a wheelbarrow

29 de jan. de 2022

Beau Miles loves wood. When the old farmhouse at Outward Bound Australia was set for demolition Beau couldn’t shut his trap and said ‘give me three...

08 de jun. de 2022

When signing 1812 pre-sold copies of his book The Backyard Adventurer, Beau Miles decided to have a backyard adventure while doing it

10 de jun. de 2021

Beau Miles' decimal age on March 2nd, 2022 was 42.195, which by no coincidence is also the length of a marathon in kilometres. To celebrate being a...

20 de abr. de 2022

As there are 1440 minutes in a day, and Beau Miles love planting trees, he decided to plant a tree a minute for 24 hours. It was (swear meaningfull...

07 de dez. de 2021

Haircut hater gets a makeover by wife

20 de jan. de 2022

Setting off with no food, water or shelter, Beau Miles walked 90km to work a bunch of years ago to see if a stripped back adventure could give him ...

03 de jun. de 2021

May and Beau head off on a slow, tooled-up, distracted lap of the block - which happens to be a perfect mile.

27 de jan. de 2021

This is the story of spending a night in a big old gumtree. Strapped to three builders planks (one of which had a large crack that I thought was sp...

08 de ago. de 2020

When COVID-19 locked Beau Miles and his family down on the small farm, he decided to build his wife a cabin-office in the paddock without her knowi...

12 de dez. de 2020

Eating only the contents of 191 tins of beans over 40 days transforms Beau into The Human Bean, and in doing so gives him a front row seat into how...

02 de mai. de 2020

Overgrown, farmed, pushed out, sold off and only half there, Beau sets off with shovel in hand, dressed like a 50's train driver, to re-trace an ol...

08 de nov. de 2019

Packing on the pounds after writing a PhD, Beau's running again. He's also back in the shed; fixing stuff, making things, tinkering. For most of us...

18 de ago. de 2018

You can buy a paddle, or buy wood to make a paddle, but what about making one from junk? Collecting junk wood found between the train station and t...

17 de out. de 2018

Over two months in the summer of 2003, a 23-year-old Beau Miles paddled his kayak, solo, around three major island chains off Australia’s southern ...

28 de fev. de 2004