HE’S been chased by bushfires, fled to higher ground as rising flood waters got too close, and stared down a wild boar he came face to face with all on the eternal trek that Grant John Cadoret, better known as The Highway Man or simply “John”, began 45 years ago.

Now aged 67, he’s an elusive character of no fixed address and no destination in mind on a lone journey walking along Australia’s highways that has taken him out of mainstream society, getting on for half a century.