Observed arrival · 2026-09-03
Barbara Schwarzmann’s unfinished walk across the Canning Stock Route
An author’s field account of three attempts to cross Western Australia’s 1,850-kilometre Canning Stock Route, alongside other long-distance desert walks.
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The site documents an expedition organized around self-sufficiency: Schwarzmann buried ninety days of food along the Canning Stock Route before walking sections of it. Its account also follows the practical failures behind the journey, including a trolley defeated by a twenty-centimetre rut difference and a 660-kilometre Kimberley crossing made with a pram. The homepage links to separate walk, book, author, gallery, and contact sections, presenting Dear Desert as the larger account of these attempts.
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