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OVERVIEW-Aussie Camino Source:Aussiecamino Today‘s pilgrim traveller considering the direct road to Penola, along the modern highway, would find it a great challenge unless going all the way by car. However a more calm and relaxed route has been chosen for those who wish to make a more authentic pilgrimage by foot. For the first few days  the camino follows the Great South West Walk (GSWW) and then afterwards  numerous farm tracks, goat trails, minor roads and even abandoned railway lines. Nonetheless making the pilgrimage by foot to Penola and first from Portland is not without its own challenges as the distances are great and facilities few and far between. Unless one is to either travel in a small group with perhaps a support vehicle provided, the long road / path from Portland to Nelson alone is very strenuous as the GSWW was initially set aside as a general multiday trekking route. It would realistically entail carrying all one‘s own ...