Beau spent his childhood looking for golf balls, secretly hoping to find a body part in the swamps and marshes. He still looks in odd places for much the same thing (and feeling). Being redhead means that sunscreen, big hats and old business shirts cloak him during outdoor life. He likes baths more than showers, homemade wine and licorice. By god he likes licorice.
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I love bananas. So, when I found out there was a roadside bananas stand in North Queensland, I ran there with a very good swimmer.
I made a crap raft while in Canada recently and tried not to repeat the process when making one in North Queensland.
Eight years ago my mum asked for a small christmas tree. ‘No worries mum’ I said, and headed for the bush. But before I got there I noticed one on the side of the road down a dirt road. Rather than bust off a branch I decided to dig out a small sapling and planted it in a pot. It was about a foot tall. Mum thought it was perfect. The following year it was three times bigger and mum re-potted it. Three years later it was deemed too big and was in need of a larger pot, so Helen and I took it. I repotted it and it served as our Christmas tree for three more years. This year, it proved too big and heavy to get into the house so I unpotted it, loaded it into the wheelbarrow and hit up the village to see if anyone wanted a free, once-upon-a-time-stolen* Christmas tree.
*side of the road council land.
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MITCH DRUMMOND
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JAMES DOBSON
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I can't believe they let me run a marathon in a Seattle luxury hotel.
I have a new cricket rule based on going out to Glenn McGrath... when he caught my bat.
I found myself in New Orleans with a day off. I laced up to hit town, but in reality there was only one direction I was heading, and it was towards the river. For as long as I can remember, the Mississippi has been a place and a thing I’ve wanted to experience. A river I’d like to paddle and row, fish from, swim and sail. Instead, when I found a river bend I could actually walk all the way to the waters edge- as most of it is fenced off, guarded, owned or behind walls. Forever inspired by Huckleberry Finn and his riverside antics, I decided to make a fort. So that’s what I did.
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BEAU MILES
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MITCH DRUMMOND
Final Sound MIx
JAMES DOBSON
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GOODONYA
Kevin Bennett
The ridiculously nice concierge man at the hotel (he almost leant me his own car)
The caterers (I ate leftovers for days)
Beavers of inland America for such fine materials
The barge driver for giving me a honk that I wish I had on film
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This is what it looks like to sort 50 years worth of screws and nuts into some kind of order. Half of these things are from my grandparents... I really am a second hand dude from a second hand family.
I was running in my local patch of bush recently and came upon a fresh dumping of rubbish. A full trailer load at least, including an old bed, woody offcuts, kids toys, torn up dog beds and general, gross, household waste. It ruined my run for a few reasons. First, this kind of stuff is happening a lot more. Two, it was such a lot of crap and three, I felt like I now owned the problem having stopped and engaged with the pile of crap. I owned it by osmosis of running past. Righto, I thought, I’m gonna come back and take this crap out of here, and while I’m at it, I’ll make something from the wood. So that’s what I did.
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BEAU MILES
MITCH DRUMMOND
Edited by
MITCH DRUMMOND
Final Sound Mix
JAMES DOBSON
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JUNK CHICKEN COOP: There comes a time in every parenting life when you decide to buy an animal for your child. I was pushing for a goat but I was outvoted and we got chickens. Problem: no place to home them. Buggered if I was going to buy a chicken coop, or materials to build one, meaning I had another junk-made project on my hands. I had no bloody time to do it, but squeezed it in over two months (yep, i thought I’d get it done in a weekend…idiot!) This, my egg loving friends, is making a junk chicken coop from junk*.
*noting that many good chicken palaces are made from second hand stuff.
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Produced by
BEAU MILES
MITCH DRUMMOND
Edited by
MITCH DRUMMOND
Rough Cuts
LUCY CAWOOD
Final Sound Mix
JAMES DOBSON
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MY NEMESIS: Meet Pete. He and I were cross-country rivals at school. I reckon I won more races than Pete, but I’m likely wrong. Twenty five years later, and too many laps of a basketball court, Pete’s on the verge of getting both hips replaced. Over a bottle of wine one night, we cooked up the idea of one last hurrah, one last run to see out the old, bone-on-bone hips. Heck, why not make it the hardest 100km race in Australia?! The wine worked. We signed up to Hut to Hut. Conjoined as a running pair, with a 22 hour cut-off, we set out to complete one of the hardest running loops on the continent. Can Pete make it? Who bloody knows.
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Produced by
BEAU MILES
MITCH DRUMMOND
Edited by
MITCH DRUMMOND
with LUCY CAWOOD
Final Sound Mix
JAMES DOBSON
Additional Footage
BRETT CAMPBELL
KAMIL SUSTIAK
Rough Cuts
LUCY CAWOOD
JODI EVANS
Goodonya
CHRIS ORD
ANDY PAYNE
SIMON MADDEN
SALLY JANE
H2H VOLUNTEERS
PETES FAMILY
KELLY & HELEN
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More info on the race - https://www.hut2hut.oscars100.com.au/
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