Elliot and his five camels left Manildra on Tuesday morning and are expected to arrive in Canowindra on Thursday or Friday.

In April this year Elliot set off on a two-year trek around Australia with his four camels Ted, Jackson, Arthur and Bill and his rescue dog Bruski.

He has picked up a fifth camel along the way.

John's story is one that many just can't understand.

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"People didn't know what to think," he said.

"There was all these crazy rumours. When I started I didn't have a why; it was a blank canvas. I had no expectations. What concerns me the most now is if I would even want to go back. Only 400km into my trip I decided to add another 2000."

After spending 15 months training and preparing, John travelled to Coonarr Beach, south of Bundaberg, to start his journey on April 11.

"It was going to be a 'small' trip across to WA but I didn't want to do all that work for three months," he said.

The journey has evolved to now wanting to be the first camel trek to hit every state. The trip is expected to take two years with John walking about 20km each day. For every day he walks, John includes a rest day. It's these rest days that have allowed him to experience what Australia truly has to offer.

Travelling the back roads on his way to Moree from Goondiwindi, John took a detour down a driveway which turned out to be "the best 2km detour I took of the trip so far".

"I hit the plains on those really windy days, it was probably one of the worst times to cross the plains. I saw a 2km driveway in front of me and what looked like a couple of sheds at the end that I thought I could seek shelter in from the wind."

As it turned out, that 2km driveway belonged to Andrew and Jodie Crowe, who not only set him up in one of their sheds, but let him soak in their artesian bore bath and Andrew even took John up in his plane to show him the area and where he'd walked from the sky.

"I've been really looked after along the way," he said.

John said it's this type of hospitality that has opened his eyes to the generosity of people.

"People drop off food and beer; every 10^th car stops and they'll have a chocolate bar or a bottle of water that they'll give me. You come out here and you really see the generosity. Irrelevant of whether people have or don't have, all I'm seeing is what people are prepared to give."

Along the way, John also managed to acquire a fifth camel - a baby only about a year old which is yet to be named - from Peter Gor's property just south of Goondiwindi.

"I saw him in the paddock and Pete said if you can catch him, you can have him," he said. "After a few days I caught him and it took two days to train him up and he joined the pack."

John has everything he needs for life on the road - camping and hunting gear, solar, electricity, a fridge, food and water - all of which is carried on the back of his camels. At any one time he has up to 300L of water and three months' worth of food.

"I come into towns for the people and beer," he said.

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"I'm trading a five-star lifestyle for a five-billion-star adventure."

Before John's journey had even begun, the adventure was already life-changing.

"Before I left and I went and got my first ever skin check and they found a large melanoma on my back," he said. "If it wasn't for this trip, I never would have got it checked."

This then gave John another purpose. He is now using the trek as a way to raise funds for Beard Season to provide free skin checks in regional areas.

Follow his journey at johnelliot.com.au