22 June 2009

ExpeditionOz becomes ExpeditionOz Services

Posted by Mick under: Expeditionoz Services .

After putting this off for a number years, in early June 2009 I finally transformed “ExpeditionOz” from being a blog into a business called “ExpeditionOz Services“.

Here is the blurb as taken from the “about us” page of the website:

Our heritage in planning trips, and later expeditions, started in the late 1980’s when i took on roles such as tour and production manager for a number of bands and live corporate events around Australia and the Australasian region. These roles included organising transport (ie. personnel buses and vehicles, planes, equipment transport trucks, transport planes, boats, etc) and sourcing equipment, accommodation, food services, communications and a variety of staff.

Travelling around Australia for large periods of time and to a number of remote places gave me a taste for exploring not only our own amazing continent but other areas of the world in further detail. Between 1990 and today I have undertaken many trips, the longest of which have included exploring the Swiss Alps for three weeks and spending five weeks in the Australian outback exploring regions such as the Strzelecki Desert, Lake Eyre, the Woomera region including Lake Gairdner, the Painted and Pedirka Desert, the Petermann Ranges, Palm Valley, the Tanami Desert and the east Kimberley.

So this new found love of spending time in the big blue room resulted in the starting of a blog called “ExpeditionOz” in 2003, which was to highlight the personal trips I was undertaking, along with equipment reviews and news of outdoor equipment and gadgets that we found interesting.

Well…after six years, and thousands of kilometres of travelling, the launching of the fifth version of the website is an important step, as it also is the start of turning my little personal website into an expedition planning business called “ExpeditionOz Services“.

While the head quarters of ExpeditionOz Services is located in the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, about 100km east of Melbourne in the Australian State of Victoria, we provide a variety of services for locations both in and out of Australia, which over the next six months will include the following:

• Expedition Planning & Services
• Online & Offline Mapping
• Hosted Expedition Websites
• Remote Photography & Video Production
• An Equipment Store
• Remote Site Surveying
• ExpeditionOz Expeditions

We can offer most of the above services at the moment, with the intention being to scale our availability as the need arises, and we are more than happy to work with you on planning your personal, business or scientific expedition, no matter how large or small your expedition or budget is.

In addition to planning your own expedition, we will occasionally be offering the opportunity for people to join with us in some of our own expeditions. Our most current and ongoing personal expedition entails climbing the highest peak in each of the Australian States. A number of expeditions are currently in planning for 2010 and 2011 as well.

The blog portion of the website will continue to highlight my personal stories and photos from my various travels, as well as providing a place to find links and information to some of the interesting places, people and equipment that seem to emanate from the outdoor travel, adventure sport and expedition community, particularly from Australia.

Mick Stanic
CEO – Chief Expedition Officer
Monday the 15th of June 2009

Me on top of Mt Kosciuszko, which at 2,228m is the highest mountain on the Australian mainland.

ExpeditionOz Services is a division of Honeysuckle Creek Pty Ltd.

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