Summit Mt Cook on 27th
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Everyone should "End to End" The Bibbulmun Track once in their life. This is a record of our attempt.
- Dwellingup Weekend
- The Creation Song
- Performance
- The songs Wet Clothes & Dried Food
- Safely home
- Our Last Hut !!!!
- Sunset from Waalegh hut
- Leaving Dwellingup 25 May
- Waalegh Hut-Fri 2nd JUNE
- Summit Mt Cook on 27th
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- October 2006
- June 2007
- November 2007
- Current Posts
Monday, May 29, 2006
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Our old mate Peter Donovan ..... Much to our suprise has just taken over the Dwellingup roadhouse
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
17 May Collie to Harris Dam 24k
18 May Harris Dam to Yourdamung 13.5k
19 May Yourdamung to Possum Springs 18.7k
20 May Possum Springs to Dookanelly 19.3k
21 May Dookanelly to Murray 17.8k
22 May Murray to Swamp Oak 18.6k
23 May Swamp Oak to Dwellingup 13k
This was a great 8 day stretch. Met several other 'end to enders' all travelling southwards, and shared the last three huts with Colin who came onto the track at the Harvey Quindanning Rd and walked through to Dwellingup. He'd be back in Perth by now! There was only one day that was pretty hilly, and that was a real B. The ups went on forever and were very steep. The rest of the 8 days was over good tracks. Margaret's feet are now beginning to behave themselves, but the nights are beginning to get really cold. We are wearing most of our clothes to bed .
We have been really lucky with the weather as well. It rained like crazy all night when we were in the Swamp Oak hut, but we only had to walk in the rain for about one hour yesterday.
Ah well, onwards & upwards tomorrow.
Several people mentioned before we started that they might like to walk a bit with us, so our schedule is as follows :
We leave Dwellingup tomorrow morning, and will be at Gringer Creek hut (at North Bannister) on Sunday 28 May.
We will be at the Mt Cook hut on 30th May (Dad's birthday) so will be at Sullivan's Rock the next morning early. Then we cross Brookton Hwy on Tue 1 June, and will be at the Mt Dale hut that night. We are staying at the Mundaring Weir pub on Sunday 4 June, and walking out the next day. We are going to have a leisurely lunch at the Calamunda Camel Farm in Paul's Valley Rd, and will get to the Kalamunda Pub about 3.30 in the afternoon .... see you there!
We will probably be within mobile phone range a bit from now on so will be able to post a few more photos.
18 May Harris Dam to Yourdamung 13.5k
19 May Yourdamung to Possum Springs 18.7k
20 May Possum Springs to Dookanelly 19.3k
21 May Dookanelly to Murray 17.8k
22 May Murray to Swamp Oak 18.6k
23 May Swamp Oak to Dwellingup 13k
This was a great 8 day stretch. Met several other 'end to enders' all travelling southwards, and shared the last three huts with Colin who came onto the track at the Harvey Quindanning Rd and walked through to Dwellingup. He'd be back in Perth by now! There was only one day that was pretty hilly, and that was a real B. The ups went on forever and were very steep. The rest of the 8 days was over good tracks. Margaret's feet are now beginning to behave themselves, but the nights are beginning to get really cold. We are wearing most of our clothes to bed .
We have been really lucky with the weather as well. It rained like crazy all night when we were in the Swamp Oak hut, but we only had to walk in the rain for about one hour yesterday.
Ah well, onwards & upwards tomorrow.
Several people mentioned before we started that they might like to walk a bit with us, so our schedule is as follows :
We leave Dwellingup tomorrow morning, and will be at Gringer Creek hut (at North Bannister) on Sunday 28 May.
We will be at the Mt Cook hut on 30th May (Dad's birthday) so will be at Sullivan's Rock the next morning early. Then we cross Brookton Hwy on Tue 1 June, and will be at the Mt Dale hut that night. We are staying at the Mundaring Weir pub on Sunday 4 June, and walking out the next day. We are going to have a leisurely lunch at the Calamunda Camel Farm in Paul's Valley Rd, and will get to the Kalamunda Pub about 3.30 in the afternoon .... see you there!
We will probably be within mobile phone range a bit from now on so will be able to post a few more photos.
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17 May Collie to Harris Dam 24k
18 May Harris Dam to Yourdamung 13.5k
19 May Yourdamung to Possum Springs 18.7k
20 May Possum Springs to Dookanelly 19.3k
21 May Dookanelly to Murray 17.8k
22 May Murray to Swamp Oak 18.6k
23 May Swamp Oak to Dwellingup 13k
This was a great 8 day stretch. Met several other 'end to enders' all travelling southwards, and shared the last three huts with Colin who came onto the track at the Harvey Quindanning Rd and walked through to Dwellingup. He'd be back in Perth by now! There was only one day that was pretty hilly, and that was a real B. The ups went on forever and were very steep. The rest of the 8 days was over good tracks. Margaret's feet are now beginning to behave themselves, but the nights are beginning to get really cold. We are wearing most of our clothes to bed .
We have been really lucky with the weather as well. It rained like crazy all night when we were in the Swamp Oak hut, but we only had to walk in the rain for about one hour yesterday.
Ah well, onwards & upwards tomorrow.
Several people mentioned before we started that they might like to walk a bit with us, so our schedule is as follows :
We leave Dwellingup tomorrow morning, and will be at Gringer Creek hut (at North Bannister) on Sunday 28 May.
We will be at the Mt Cook hut on 30th May (Dad's birthday) so will be at Sullivan's Rock the next morning early. Then we cross Brookton Hwy on Tue 1 June, and will be at the Mt Dale hut that night. We are staying at the Mundaring Weir pub on Sunday 4 June, and walking out the next day. We are going to have a leisurely lunch at the Calamunda Camel Farm in Paul's Valley Rd, and will get to the Kalamunda Pub about 3.30 in the afternoon .... see you there!
We will probably be within mobile phone range a bit from now on so will be able to post a few more photos.
18 May Harris Dam to Yourdamung 13.5k
19 May Yourdamung to Possum Springs 18.7k
20 May Possum Springs to Dookanelly 19.3k
21 May Dookanelly to Murray 17.8k
22 May Murray to Swamp Oak 18.6k
23 May Swamp Oak to Dwellingup 13k
This was a great 8 day stretch. Met several other 'end to enders' all travelling southwards, and shared the last three huts with Colin who came onto the track at the Harvey Quindanning Rd and walked through to Dwellingup. He'd be back in Perth by now! There was only one day that was pretty hilly, and that was a real B. The ups went on forever and were very steep. The rest of the 8 days was over good tracks. Margaret's feet are now beginning to behave themselves, but the nights are beginning to get really cold. We are wearing most of our clothes to bed .
We have been really lucky with the weather as well. It rained like crazy all night when we were in the Swamp Oak hut, but we only had to walk in the rain for about one hour yesterday.
Ah well, onwards & upwards tomorrow.
Several people mentioned before we started that they might like to walk a bit with us, so our schedule is as follows :
We leave Dwellingup tomorrow morning, and will be at Gringer Creek hut (at North Bannister) on Sunday 28 May.
We will be at the Mt Cook hut on 30th May (Dad's birthday) so will be at Sullivan's Rock the next morning early. Then we cross Brookton Hwy on Tue 1 June, and will be at the Mt Dale hut that night. We are staying at the Mundaring Weir pub on Sunday 4 June, and walking out the next day. We are going to have a leisurely lunch at the Calamunda Camel Farm in Paul's Valley Rd, and will get to the Kalamunda Pub about 3.30 in the afternoon .... see you there!
We will probably be within mobile phone range a bit from now on so will be able to post a few more photos.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
We walked into Collie yesterday which I think was Monday 15th May.....if my calculations are correct.
Fri 12 May Balingup to Grimwade 22.4k
Sat 13May Grimwade to Noggerup 22.4k
Sun 14May Noggerup to Yabberup 17.7k
Mon 15 May Yabberup to Collie 18.6
And no ... I'm not making up these names.
This was pretty good terrain - not too many ups & downs, and most of it was softish ground. Every so often the track takes you onto a gravel road or worse still, a paved road, and they play hell with your feet. Even so at the end of a 20k day your feet are tired, sore & hot - as are your legs for that matter, but we are finding that we recover a lot better by now. In the mornings we are a fresh as the day we started, and a darned side fitter! Feet are still Margaret's biggest challenge, but by now all her blisters have disappeared, and the split under the little toe has healed. They just get very sore, but then she has taken about fifty percent more steps than me because her bum is so much closer to the ground.
I must say it is nice to get into the Jarrah at last. It is much more open than the Karri, and more familiar to us Perth-ites.
Tomorrow we hit the track again. Something like eight days to Dwellingup and our last rest day before we get to Kalamunda on Monday 5 June, AND WE ARE DECLARING THAT DAY A PUBLIC HOLIDAY in honour of the fact that we are so bloody clever.
Fri 12 May Balingup to Grimwade 22.4k
Sat 13May Grimwade to Noggerup 22.4k
Sun 14May Noggerup to Yabberup 17.7k
Mon 15 May Yabberup to Collie 18.6
And no ... I'm not making up these names.
This was pretty good terrain - not too many ups & downs, and most of it was softish ground. Every so often the track takes you onto a gravel road or worse still, a paved road, and they play hell with your feet. Even so at the end of a 20k day your feet are tired, sore & hot - as are your legs for that matter, but we are finding that we recover a lot better by now. In the mornings we are a fresh as the day we started, and a darned side fitter! Feet are still Margaret's biggest challenge, but by now all her blisters have disappeared, and the split under the little toe has healed. They just get very sore, but then she has taken about fifty percent more steps than me because her bum is so much closer to the ground.
I must say it is nice to get into the Jarrah at last. It is much more open than the Karri, and more familiar to us Perth-ites.
Tomorrow we hit the track again. Something like eight days to Dwellingup and our last rest day before we get to Kalamunda on Monday 5 June, AND WE ARE DECLARING THAT DAY A PUBLIC HOLIDAY in honour of the fact that we are so bloody clever.
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Leaving Blackwood. In the clouds, in the pines. 10 May
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Friday, May 12, 2006
The Huts
-Actually they are shelters, not huts. Basically they are three-sided affairs with the open side away from the predominant weather (usually). There is an outdoor table setting under cover, and a sleeping platform. Some of the huts, especially on the south coast have an L shaped sleeping platform, and others are just across the back, with upper bunks on each side. The "floor" is usually woodchips which we thought was pretty primitive until we reached some of these more Northern huts with their dirt floors
The Frankland River hut is the 'poshest' yet. It has a decking floor, and an extended under-cover deck out overlooking the river. Unfortunately the night we were there we were inundated with Kiwis !!!!! We slept 15 in the hut that night. Snoring & farting galore (& that was just me!!)
Some huts have resident mice, so you have to hang up your food. This has worked in all but one hut, the Blackwood Hut, where a mouse still managed to get into our food and help itself to our cereal. Still they don't eat much - make a hell of a noise rooting through plastic bags though.
A couple of the huts supposedly have resident snakes as well, though we haven't seen them - don't want to either!
Each hut has two registers - the green official one - name, where from, time on the track, etc - and a red comments book. In one of the huts a woman handwritten in the "red" book that she had seen a snake slither under the sleeping platform just where her husband had rolled out her sleeping bag. Her quandary was should she tell him or not. They were quite exhausted and really needed a good nights sleep. Two days further on we read her confession in the "red " book. She hadn't told him and he had had a really restful night. Ah .... such trust between partners!
There is a drop loo at each hut. They are away from the hut a bit, or in some cases they seem to be halfway back to the previous hut! To approach the hut at Beedelup (just out of Pemberton) the last hundred meters is down a very steep hill. We didn't notice on the way in, but the loo was at the top of that hill!!
Water tanks with the sweetest rainwater are at each hut, although especially in the Karri, the water is quite stained.
The one thing about the huts though, is how great they look at the end of each days walk !!!! The first glimpse of the roof through the trees is an absolute "sight for sore eyes"...and legs....and feet.
-Actually they are shelters, not huts. Basically they are three-sided affairs with the open side away from the predominant weather (usually). There is an outdoor table setting under cover, and a sleeping platform. Some of the huts, especially on the south coast have an L shaped sleeping platform, and others are just across the back, with upper bunks on each side. The "floor" is usually woodchips which we thought was pretty primitive until we reached some of these more Northern huts with their dirt floors
The Frankland River hut is the 'poshest' yet. It has a decking floor, and an extended under-cover deck out overlooking the river. Unfortunately the night we were there we were inundated with Kiwis !!!!! We slept 15 in the hut that night. Snoring & farting galore (& that was just me!!)
Some huts have resident mice, so you have to hang up your food. This has worked in all but one hut, the Blackwood Hut, where a mouse still managed to get into our food and help itself to our cereal. Still they don't eat much - make a hell of a noise rooting through plastic bags though.
A couple of the huts supposedly have resident snakes as well, though we haven't seen them - don't want to either!
Each hut has two registers - the green official one - name, where from, time on the track, etc - and a red comments book. In one of the huts a woman handwritten in the "red" book that she had seen a snake slither under the sleeping platform just where her husband had rolled out her sleeping bag. Her quandary was should she tell him or not. They were quite exhausted and really needed a good nights sleep. Two days further on we read her confession in the "red " book. She hadn't told him and he had had a really restful night. Ah .... such trust between partners!
There is a drop loo at each hut. They are away from the hut a bit, or in some cases they seem to be halfway back to the previous hut! To approach the hut at Beedelup (just out of Pemberton) the last hundred meters is down a very steep hill. We didn't notice on the way in, but the loo was at the top of that hill!!
Water tanks with the sweetest rainwater are at each hut, although especially in the Karri, the water is quite stained.
The one thing about the huts though, is how great they look at the end of each days walk !!!! The first glimpse of the roof through the trees is an absolute "sight for sore eyes"...and legs....and feet.
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
We are now in Balingup & still no mobile phone coverage so no photos
Mon 8 May Donnelly River to Gregory Brook 20.6k
Tue 9 May Gregory Brook to Blackwood 18k
Wed 10 May Blackwood to Balingup 17.7k
A fairly easy 3 day walk, out of the Karri and into the Jarrah & Redgum.
Just a few hills �� including Cardiac Hill up to the Blackwood Hut. The track rises over 200 metres in under 1 kilometre. Margaret counted 1424 footsteps! I couldn't count anything �... had enough trouble just breathing! We were rewarded with the best views from any hut so far. Once again photos to follow.
It has been great to have visitors. John & Leith from Bunbury dropped in to see us at Donnelly with a selection of gourmet foods & red wine! We celebrated Margaret's birthday with them. They also had to be in Balingup yesterday, so we saw them then too.
The only other people we have seen on this last section were two Estonian women at the Gregory Brook hut, and a Russian guy on the track yesterday. They were all heading south towards those sand dunes ...... poor buggers!
Well, off to Collie tomorrow, and a chance to replace the thermals that Margaret incinerated in a clothes dryer back in Denmark! We will probably need them by then. By all accounts it is going to get colder from here on. Collie was -1 the other night.
ONWARDS AND FOREVER UPWARDS!
Mon 8 May Donnelly River to Gregory Brook 20.6k
Tue 9 May Gregory Brook to Blackwood 18k
Wed 10 May Blackwood to Balingup 17.7k
A fairly easy 3 day walk, out of the Karri and into the Jarrah & Redgum.
Just a few hills �� including Cardiac Hill up to the Blackwood Hut. The track rises over 200 metres in under 1 kilometre. Margaret counted 1424 footsteps! I couldn't count anything �... had enough trouble just breathing! We were rewarded with the best views from any hut so far. Once again photos to follow.
It has been great to have visitors. John & Leith from Bunbury dropped in to see us at Donnelly with a selection of gourmet foods & red wine! We celebrated Margaret's birthday with them. They also had to be in Balingup yesterday, so we saw them then too.
The only other people we have seen on this last section were two Estonian women at the Gregory Brook hut, and a Russian guy on the track yesterday. They were all heading south towards those sand dunes ...... poor buggers!
Well, off to Collie tomorrow, and a chance to replace the thermals that Margaret incinerated in a clothes dryer back in Denmark! We will probably need them by then. By all accounts it is going to get colder from here on. Collie was -1 the other night.
ONWARDS AND FOREVER UPWARDS!
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Sunday, May 07, 2006
WE HAVE HIT THE HALFWAY MARK!!!
Tue 2 May Pemberton to Beedelup 23.8k
Wed 3 May Beedelup to Beavis 19.6k
Thur 4 May Beavis to Boarding House 24.5k
Fri 5 May Boarding House to Tom Road 23k
Sat 6 May Tom Road to Donnelly River 16k
Sun 7 May Rest day at Donnelly for Margaret�s birthday�.thanks to all those that emailed birthday wishes
Sorry folks..no photos. Mobile phones don't work here.
We have had a pretty good 5 day walk from Pemberton, through mainly karri forrests. A couple of steep valleys that were hell to get down into...and worse to get up out of again, and Margaret is still plagued by her little toe that started giving trouble just before Walpole. Still, today is her birthday, so after she has done the laundry, stocked up on provisions for the next stage of the walk, and chopped the wood for the fire, she can have a bit of a rest!!!!
Highlights of the past 5 days.
1 Buying blow-up pillows at Pemberton!
2 Lunch at the Graphiti Cafe on day 4 - a gourmet cafe in the middle of the forest miles from anywhere, and just a few meters from the track. Great food & coffee ---photos to follow.
3 Actually making it to the halfway point!
4 Meeting a great bunch of people (Heath ,Ian etc) at Beavis hut. They were all walking southwards.
5 Donnelly River does not have a booze outlet, but they do have a complimentery Happy Hour between 5 & 6 on Saturdays - our timing was impecible, and when Margaret mentioned it would be her birthday drink, Tony (who ownes the place) slipped us the remains of the box of the red to take back to the cottage. This morning he gave Margaret 3 little bottles of baby cham also. Great place this!!!
Tomorrow we start the second (& final!) half of the walk. It is starting to look like we might actually make it!
Tue 2 May Pemberton to Beedelup 23.8k
Wed 3 May Beedelup to Beavis 19.6k
Thur 4 May Beavis to Boarding House 24.5k
Fri 5 May Boarding House to Tom Road 23k
Sat 6 May Tom Road to Donnelly River 16k
Sun 7 May Rest day at Donnelly for Margaret�s birthday�.thanks to all those that emailed birthday wishes
Sorry folks..no photos. Mobile phones don't work here.
We have had a pretty good 5 day walk from Pemberton, through mainly karri forrests. A couple of steep valleys that were hell to get down into...and worse to get up out of again, and Margaret is still plagued by her little toe that started giving trouble just before Walpole. Still, today is her birthday, so after she has done the laundry, stocked up on provisions for the next stage of the walk, and chopped the wood for the fire, she can have a bit of a rest!!!!
Highlights of the past 5 days.
1 Buying blow-up pillows at Pemberton!
2 Lunch at the Graphiti Cafe on day 4 - a gourmet cafe in the middle of the forest miles from anywhere, and just a few meters from the track. Great food & coffee ---photos to follow.
3 Actually making it to the halfway point!
4 Meeting a great bunch of people (Heath ,Ian etc) at Beavis hut. They were all walking southwards.
5 Donnelly River does not have a booze outlet, but they do have a complimentery Happy Hour between 5 & 6 on Saturdays - our timing was impecible, and when Margaret mentioned it would be her birthday drink, Tony (who ownes the place) slipped us the remains of the box of the red to take back to the cottage. This morning he gave Margaret 3 little bottles of baby cham also. Great place this!!!
Tomorrow we start the second (& final!) half of the walk. It is starting to look like we might actually make it!
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Monday, May 01, 2006
Walpole to Pemberton..a bloody long way!
Stage 3 Walpole to Pemberton
19 Apr Walpole to Mt Clare 8.4k (too easy!)
20Apr Mt Clare to Longpoint 12k
21Apr Longpoint to Woolbales 17.6k
22Apr Woolbales to Mt Chance 21k
23Apr Mt Chance to Dog Pool 19.4k
24Apr Dog Pool to Lake Maringup 25 (very Long )k
25Apr Lake Mariungup to Garder 16k (thet's more like it!)
26Apr Gardner to Northcliffe 15k (even better!)
27Apr Rest day in Northcliffe
28Apr Northcliffe to Schafer 14k
29 Apr Schafer to Warren 21.2k
30 Apr Warren to Pemberton 20.1k
1May Rest day in Pemberton
We have now almost hit the 400k mark! The next stage we start tomorrow is 5 days & 94 k ti Donnely River and the halfway point. We will spend one day there, and coincedentily it will be Margaret's birthday.
Let me tell you about the beautiful Northcliffe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We arrived at the motel we had booked into, only to find the place deserted. We waited 15min then decided to leave our packs, and wander into town for a bight of lunch. Went to the corner cafe/lunchbar, and they had sold out of pies, so we ordered steak burgers each. We waited about 60mins, but to be fair they were busy -there were 6 other people there!
Back to the motel to find that it was open, and the lady running the place had been at the next table to us in the cafe the whole time we were there!!!
There is only one place to do laundry in Northcliffe, and believe me we neede it by then! It was at the Shell roadhouse about 15min walk from where we were staying. When we got there we found that the dryer had broken down in January..............It was raining on & off all that day.
Back to the motel. Glenda who runs the place was very helpful. She offered Margaret the use of her private dryer. Back out to the roadhouse for Margaret (dressed in long johns, bathers, and her waterproof jacket) while I waited in the room in my speedos....great image eh? Everything else was either wet of extremely dirty!
Laundry sorted we went down to the pub for dinner, and another 60min wait for food. Ah well it gave us a good chance to sample the local reds....and more of the local reds.
Clothes were still not dry so set the timer for 45mins before we went to bed. Trouble is that sometime in that 45min, the dryer broke down. Next morning our room resembled a chinese laundry, but we got most of the clothes nearly dry.
Back to the cafe to use their computer, but guess what...it wasn't working. I really don't know why I was expecting it to be!
Back to the pub that night for another chance to sample heaps of the local reds before our dinner arrived!
But that was Northcliffe, and this is Pemberton!
We have a great little house complete with fire, comfortable beds , washingmachine (& there's a dryer at the local laundromat that works!) and heaps of room.
Off to the supermart now to re stock on food (& get some radox- there is also a bath in the house) then off tomorrow for the 5 day hike into Donnely River.
And one last thing....we are checking our emails ( morgans11@three.com.au )
talk to youse soon!
19 Apr Walpole to Mt Clare 8.4k (too easy!)
20Apr Mt Clare to Longpoint 12k
21Apr Longpoint to Woolbales 17.6k
22Apr Woolbales to Mt Chance 21k
23Apr Mt Chance to Dog Pool 19.4k
24Apr Dog Pool to Lake Maringup 25 (very Long )k
25Apr Lake Mariungup to Garder 16k (thet's more like it!)
26Apr Gardner to Northcliffe 15k (even better!)
27Apr Rest day in Northcliffe
28Apr Northcliffe to Schafer 14k
29 Apr Schafer to Warren 21.2k
30 Apr Warren to Pemberton 20.1k
1May Rest day in Pemberton
We have now almost hit the 400k mark! The next stage we start tomorrow is 5 days & 94 k ti Donnely River and the halfway point. We will spend one day there, and coincedentily it will be Margaret's birthday.
Let me tell you about the beautiful Northcliffe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We arrived at the motel we had booked into, only to find the place deserted. We waited 15min then decided to leave our packs, and wander into town for a bight of lunch. Went to the corner cafe/lunchbar, and they had sold out of pies, so we ordered steak burgers each. We waited about 60mins, but to be fair they were busy -there were 6 other people there!
Back to the motel to find that it was open, and the lady running the place had been at the next table to us in the cafe the whole time we were there!!!
There is only one place to do laundry in Northcliffe, and believe me we neede it by then! It was at the Shell roadhouse about 15min walk from where we were staying. When we got there we found that the dryer had broken down in January..............It was raining on & off all that day.
Back to the motel. Glenda who runs the place was very helpful. She offered Margaret the use of her private dryer. Back out to the roadhouse for Margaret (dressed in long johns, bathers, and her waterproof jacket) while I waited in the room in my speedos....great image eh? Everything else was either wet of extremely dirty!
Laundry sorted we went down to the pub for dinner, and another 60min wait for food. Ah well it gave us a good chance to sample the local reds....and more of the local reds.
Clothes were still not dry so set the timer for 45mins before we went to bed. Trouble is that sometime in that 45min, the dryer broke down. Next morning our room resembled a chinese laundry, but we got most of the clothes nearly dry.
Back to the cafe to use their computer, but guess what...it wasn't working. I really don't know why I was expecting it to be!
Back to the pub that night for another chance to sample heaps of the local reds before our dinner arrived!
But that was Northcliffe, and this is Pemberton!
We have a great little house complete with fire, comfortable beds , washingmachine (& there's a dryer at the local laundromat that works!) and heaps of room.
Off to the supermart now to re stock on food (& get some radox- there is also a bath in the house) then off tomorrow for the 5 day hike into Donnely River.
And one last thing....we are checking our emails ( morgans11@three.com.au )
talk to youse soon!
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