At 4:00am on 21.12.2010, two runners set out from the door at the base of the Leeuwin lighthouse (34º22'30" S, 115º08'10" E, 9km West of Augusta in WA's far South West).  Their target, by last light on this longest day of 2010, was a very similar door, 130km up the coast, at Naturaliste lighthouse (33º32'14" S, 115º01'08" E, 13km North of Dunsborough).  This was an attempt at the first ever non-stop, single day journey between the two lighthouses - on foot.

We cannot deny certain personal motivations - the adventure of going somewhere beyond anywhere truly sensible (and returning), the opportunity to be lost in the wild and the chance to give a fierce 'up yours' to the passing of the years - but we hope that the run will prove to have been more important than any or all of those private, primal dreams. If you are at all inspired by the linking of the lighthouses, the image of two bright eyes, each shining with the intensity of a million candles, overlooking this brilliant coastline and the endless sea, please support The Fred Hollows Foundation - and help keep Fred's vision alive: a world where no-one is needlessly blind.  $25 is all it takes to restore sight to one of the 45 million people worldwide currently suffering from preventable blindness.  Join us, and (in the words of Dylan Thomas) 'rage, rage against the dying of the light'.

Thank you.

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Following are updates that were posted live from the course.  Scroll down to read (and see) how the adventure unfolded on the longest day of 2010.