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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