Colourful character John Elliott from Perth WA, a retired insurance man, raconteur, but now a man with a dog and five camels has walked from Perth, was in Bairnsdale yesterday and stopped off to chat with Lauren Brookes at Molemap in Nicholson st.

While on his camel trek around Australia John is fundraising for "Beard Season” raising awareness of skin cancers. John is on his way to Lakes to meet up with his camel train teachers, Russel Osborne and Tara Lee.