In this week’s episode, our hosts unpack how MOMENTS entries are going and the harmony between creativity and the outdoors. They yarn about outdoor sports in the Olympics, and how different this version of each sport is to the activities most of us know and love.

Finally, with a variety of articles catching the interest of our audience recently, they go deep into the stories that caused a stir!

In This Episode We Cover

• MOMENTS – photo, video, and writing competition
• Olympics – sport in a controlled environment
• Arc’teryx’s new ‘MO/GO’ pants
• Pros & cons of Tassie’s controversial ‘Next Iconic Walk’
• Fires in the bush – K’gari bushfire investigation
• PFCs in rain jackets – Your rain jacket is probably harming the planet
• 9 best 4WD tracks in Australia
• Junk sailing from Hobart to Sydney

Join We Are Explorers Podcast host, Tim Ashelford, as he learns how Cezary & Leo dreamt up this unique gap year, and what's gone down in the first six months. Joining the podcast from the Western Treatment Plant (yep, a sewage treatment farm that apparently has great spot bird watching), the pair are over 10,000km and 590 birds into their year-long adventure.

They've both deferred uni in favour of a wild adventure, combining their passion for birds, their bikes as a means of affordable transport, and a fundraising effort to build a school in East Timor.

In This Episode We Cover

• The 700+ bird species in Aus
• Getting into birding
• Why the pair chose to travel by bike
• Trip budget
• Bikepacking experience
• Fundraising for a school in East Timor
• Bird highlights
• Chasing the common redshank
• Characters on the road
• Bike setups
• Safety on the road
• What's next
• Spend it well – school in East Timor

Show Notes
Cezary and Leo are raising money for Spend It Well, a charity that builds schools in East Timor. You can follow along their journey via their joint Instagram @twobirderstwobikes.

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Host: Tim Ashelford

Join our hosts as they recap some recent articles that have captured your imagination and take a deep dive into the world of misadventure. They also talk about the recent launch of Explorer Basecamp, our accommodation vertical and MOMENTS, our first creativity and storytelling competition which opens today! There are $15,000 worth of cash prizes to be won and entries are open until the 15th August.

In this chat we cover:

Recent articles

• Wombats – Tourism Tas & Maria Island
• Seasonal articles – Best Coastal Towns for a Beach Holiday
• Solo hiking

Misadventure

• NZ Bikepacking Adventure
• Pitches – what we do and don’t publish
• Infinite Raspberry Excerpt – Katrina Hemingway
• Tips to avoid misadventure
• Safety Messaging/articles

Recent We Are Explorers Launches

• Basecamp
• Moments