Beau Miles

Backyard adventurer Beau Miles takes on four of Australia’s most human-impacted rivers to ask the uncomfortable question: why do we destroy the very thing that keeps us alive? When filmmaker Beau Miles was thirty-six years old, he had a mid-life adventure crisis. Instead of buying a sports car or having an affair, he decided to kayak the length of his...

After years of adventuring around the globe—running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring—Beau Miles came back to his block in country Victoria. Staying put for the first time in years, Beau developed a new kind of lifestyle as the Backyard Adventurer. Whether it was walking 90km to work with no provisions, building a canoe paddle out of scavenged scrap, or running along a...