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!
posted by geoff & Margaret | 4:40 pm
1 Comments:
Cool
When we were in Balingup we talked about walking the Bibulmum track, but now living in Singapore so not a great deal of chance at the moment.
My mate Andrew's mum has just finnished walking the entire trail.
Awesome effort.
:-)
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