Simon Harvey - Walking from Brisbane to Melbourne for kids
In 2008, Simon Harvey saw the world was slowly darkening, like a piece of fruit rotting slowly from the inside out. He resolved to become CAPTAIN AUSTRALIA, and stop this slow, insidious decline. His mission was three-fold and simple:
Do Good Deeds: find positive and meaningful ways demonstrate kindness
Fight Evil: stand up against cruelty and wrong-doing
Inspire Others: be funny, joyful, righteous, inspiring others to find their way to do the same
Simon states that he failed in his Quest. He retired when his middle son was diagnosed with a serious health problem, and committed all his resources to helping him (he is thriving today).
He started a travel insurance company, which was also thriving, until the COVID border closures caused it’s collapse.
In 2016, Simon was diagnosed with a Stage 4, invasive head and neck cancer. The doctors gave him 6 months to live, with a 40-60% chance chemoradiation would save his life.
He got lucky. But there is no lucky with cancer, not really. He was in his prime, and it destroyed him. “It doesn’t only try to kill you, it tries to rob you of your dignity, hope, sense of place in the world.”
Over the next several years, Simon slipped into quiet existential crisis. Daily pain, gut-wrenching side effects, and underneath it, the thing that bothered him most, that hurt him the deepest: children have to go through this.
He realised he needed to bring Captain Australia back. He decided to do a BIG WALK for The Kids Cancer Project, and on 26.12.21 he set out to walk from Brisbane to Melbourne, by himself, no help, sleeping rough, dressed as the boofhead superhero Captain Australia.
Simon’s goal was to raise support and funds for this incredibly worthy cause, and also to heal himself, to walk away from the cancer that tried to take away his life and his hope.
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Website: https://captainaustralia.online/
FB: Captain Australia’s BIG WALK @capsBIGWALK
Insta: Captain Australia’s BIG WALK @captainaustraliasbigwalk
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