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Everyone should "End to End" The Bibbulmun Track once in their life. This is a record of our attempt.

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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.
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