Lighten The Trip Fantastic
Peter Thomas
This blog is my diary of my adventures in Australia and overseas. I hope it will inspire you to explore this great big world we live in and thereby appreciate it and its wonders. Scroll down to the links to my journals.

El Caminos de Santiago
The Ways of Saint James
El Caminho Portugue Costa 2018
El Caminho Portugue Centra 2018

Australian Bushwalks
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Day 1
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Day 2
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Day 3
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Day 4
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Day 5
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Campsites
Australian Alps Walking Track Stage 1
Australian Alps Walking Track Stage 2
Australian Alps Walking Track Stage 3
Australian Alps Walking Track Stage 4
Peter Thomas has been bushwalking in Australia and overseas for over forty years as a Venturer Scout Leader, Bushwalking Guide, and a member of the Australian Army Reserve. He has done numerous extended bushwalks in Australia including the Australian Alps Walking Track, Wilsons Promontory, the Larapinta Trail, the Little Desert, the Great Ocean Walk, the Hume & Hovell Track, the Wilderness Coast, the Port Davey Track, the Two Rivers track, the Great South West Walk, the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail, and the Aussie Camino. Overseas, he has done a three-day section of the Inca Trail and 14 of el Caminos de Santiago (the Ways of St. James) in France, Spain, and Portugal. (Frances (twice), Finisterre (thrice), Portuguese Tajo, Norte, Centra & Costa, Madrid, San Salvadore, Primitivo, Ingles and el Via de la Plata). He is currently a Trainer Emeritus of Scouts Australia with Guide appointments in Bushwalking (Arid and Alpine) & Archery and a Team Leader and Training Officer with the Operation Flinders Foundation in South Australia https://operationflinders.org.au/
Contact me via plthomas603@gmail.com
Not all those who wander are lost. (but all who are lost, wonder)
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
el Camino Australiano. Portland, Victoria – Penola, South Australia. 28th February – 11th March 2022. 250 kms.
2 March 2022 Discovery Bay Coastal Park el Camino Australiano. Day 3. Bridgewater Lakes – Discovery Bay – Swan Lake. 22 Ckms. Discovery Bay is the meseta of this Camino. A lot of headspaces and a lot of hard work. It will take us 3 days to walk the beach to Nelson and we are…
The Beatitudes of the Pilgrim
Blessed are you, pilgrim if you find that the Camino opens your eyes to the unseen.Blessed are you, pilgrim if what concerns you most is not arriving, but arriving with others.Blessed are you, pilgrim when you contemplate the sights of the Camino and find them full of names and of new dawns.Blessed are you, pilgrim…
Lighten the Trip Fantastic
Walking is not just a matter of ransacking the pantry, throwing things into a pack and then off to the nearest national park. With walking, as with any activity, the more you know about it the better you will be at it, the more you will get out of it and the safer it will…
