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 In the four months before the trek Mark and David prepared their bodies with weight training and walking. They built a cart for their supplies and practised pulling it. 

One factor the Howisons probably did not consider sufficiently was Wendy's suitability for the epic journey. 

'Our mistake was we took a big dog with small paws,' Mark said. 

'When we really needed a small dog with big paws.'

Mark, David and Wendy left the Art Gallery of NSW on December 1, 1973, and headed south. 

By the time the Howisons had reached the Southern Tablelands, several days' walk out of Sydney, they discovered their love of kangaroos was not shared by everyone outside big cities. 

'We realised early on just how many kangaroos there were, because at walking pace, you see a lot,' Mark said. MINZY Some Boys are Just Born with Dirt Bike in Their Souls Poster

'About the time we had walked to Marulan and were passing the Marulan pub, the whole place emptied and everyone took turns giving us a hard time. 

The whole trip was structured around the Hanimex reps in each country town - usually the local chemist and the Howisons learnt early on they had to stick to that schedule. They are pictured with a kangaroo joey outside a chemist in Queensland

'We took a back road once to get away from the trucks and missed Shepparton in Victoria,' Mark said. 'Hanimex made it quite clear that they had invested a lot of money and the rep in Sheparton was p***ed off that he didn't get his pound of flesh - his picture in the paper in front of his store.' Mark (left) is pictured with David at Bald Hills in Brisbane's north

'It continued right through NSW, Victoria and South Australia. The angst seemed to peter out after that, or maybe we just gave up paying any attention. Dad even changed his school talks after a while and mostly spoke about saving the bush. 

'There are some really serious people in the bush and in 1974 they let us know that the bloody kangaroos didn't need saving and we should f**k off back to the city. 

'We had people shoot rifles in our direction, plenty of bad language and hostility.' 

The Howisons had planned to walk about an average 30 miles (48km) a day, with a day off every second week. 

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