On a service highway to the Bruce Highway, certainly one of Australia’s most harmful roads, is a lone traveller on a kick scooter. He set out from Melbourne in late January and has been making the exhausting and sometimes perilous journey nearly 3,000km to Cairns in far-north Queensland.
“It’s very very hot,” Uni, the 23-year-old Japanese traveller, says. “Lot’s of trucks as well, it’s a bit scary.”
When Guardian Australia caught up with Uni this week, he had travelled nearly 60km that day alongside the service lane with simply his foot-propelled scooter and a backpack to succeed in the cane-growing city of Ingham, lower than 250km from his aim.
Ingham newspaper Wet Tropic Times discovered him last-minute accomodation for the night time with native resident Glen Ceff.
“I’ll tell you what: I definitely wouldn’t do it,” Ceff says. “It’s absolutely insane but also amazing, I have always travelled so I love travellers.”
@himajinn.uni その額3000ドル！！#ｵｰｽﾄﾗﾘｱ #キックボード #縦断 #kick #scooter #ワーホリ #英語 #初心者 #ハプニング #旅 #バックパッカー #ロン毛 #キャンプ #アウトドア #ドローン #シドニー #melbourne #Cairns #journey #traveler #Uni #guardian #news #cross #Japanese #backpacker ♬ soften bitter – sato moka
走っていたら車に轢かれかけて運転手が降りてきた｢sorry…｣タバコの灰が目に入り見えなくてぶつかりそうになったようです????でもその後いい事の連続！街につきカフェに行くと店員さんがご馳走してくれたのと、街の記者に見つかりそのまま取材を受けることに！そしてさらに… pic.twitter.com/9RG6yEH44d
— うに/キックボードの旅人/暇人の極み達 (@HimazinKiwami11) May 23, 2023
Sporting his Japanese kasa hat and the identical slippers he set out in, Uni, who prefers his surname not be used, has turn into one thing of a celeb in regional Australia. More than 18,000 individuals are following the each day updates of his journey, which he has devoted to elevating cash for UNHCR, after being impressed by a household of Ukrainian refugees he met when he handed by Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
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