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Dwellingup Weekend

2007-11-12T11:47:00.000+09:00

We are doing the presentation again at a small charity folk festival this coming weekend at Dwellingup. When we did it at Araluen it went down a treat.

The Creation Song

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The Creation Song
Words: Geoff Morgan Music: Margaret Morgan

The land was sleeping
Nothing moved, nothing grew
When the Waugal rose
And came into view
She travelled far
Throughout the land
Left a winding track
In the dusty sand

Then grew tired
You can see her still
Crouching in silence
In the broken hill
The rains then came
And the world began
The birds, the bush
Animals and man

So treat as sacred
The mother earth
Who to the Rainbow
Serpent gave birth
Save and protect
Her resting place
And all the time
Her spirit embrace

On a sunny day
When the rain is neigh
You may see her spirit
Proud in the sky
Pause for a moment
Pause and reflect
And treat the land
With great and respect

Performance

2007-06-23T10:26:00.000+08:00

We are appearing at this year's Araluen Folk Festival, 28 Sept 2007 to 1 Oct 2007 and will be presenting "the Bibbulmun Song Cycle"....check out thefestival http://www.araluenfolkfestival.org.au/index.htm
and check out our websitehttp://www.margaretandgeoffmorgan.com.au/
betterstill, come along to the festival!

The songs Wet Clothes & Dried Food

2006-10-23T10:58:00.000+08:00

Wet Cloths & Dried Food

Been out here three weeks now
Me and my backpack
I want to walk “End to End”
The Bibbulmun track
It’s been pretty constant up to now
This cold and bloody rain
It gets inside your very core –
Messes with your brain

Chorus
‘Cos I got
Wet cloths and dried food
Been on the track too long
Wet cloths and dried food
Listen to my song

I’ll be at Bevis hut quite soon
At five or quarter past
The clouds have lifted the sky is blue
The rain has stopped at last
I hope to hell they’ve left some wood
In the hut to dry
Tonight I’m going to light a fire
At least I’m going to try
Chorus

All my cloths are soaking wet
From walking in the rain
I hope to dry them by the fire
To start off dry again
Penny is the campfire queen
I could do with her tonight
She’d grab a bunch of leaves and twigs
And get that fire alight
Chorus

And when the fire is roaring
Wet socks will start to steam
I’ll get to thinking of gourmet food
It’s sort of like a dream
I’ll boil the billy and check my bag
I’ll have a cup of tea
I still have two packet soups -
“Veggie” or “Ham and Pea”.
Chorus

In three more weeks my walk is done
I’ll finally reach the end
The long hard hill at Piesse Brook
I’ll grudgingly ascend
All hardship and adversity
Will be put aside
The pride I’ll feel within myself
Will be very hard to hide
Chorus

© Geoff Morgan 21 June 2006

Safely home

2006-06-10T17:44:00.000+08:00

We are safely back on “Paradise”, and our feet are almost back to normal.
It was a terrific 61 days on the track, and the reception we received at the Kalamunda Pub is something we will remember forever. It was great to see Colin there as well. We shared three huts with him south of Dwellingup.
From Dwellingup we walked 10 days straight, but we were beginning to get the hang of it by then! The huts are closer together so we were able to ‘double hut’ several times.
We have met some wonderful people over the duration of the walk. It is surprising how many people are out there doing ‘End to End”. I thought we were going to be doing something pretty unique, but we are just a couple of the sheep. That said we have still sent off the form to get our certificates!
Mt Wells, Mt Cook, Mt Vincent, Mt Cuthbert, Mt Dale…..the names give you a bit of a clue as to the terrain of the last section. Many walkers double hut through Mt Wells, because reputedly pig shooters often stay in the hut, and the combination of bourbon & guns is not an attractive one. We shared that night with Ralph who was doing his first bushwalk, and was suffering from gout from over-indulging it the North Bannister Roadhouse, and Dave (E2E, N2S)…that’s end to end ,north to south in Bib slang!, and his girlfriend Marie who was going only as far as Donnelly River. Not a gun in sight. Bloody hell Dave, I thought I could snore!!!
The track is supposed to be 960km, but we are told that is measured on the map and doesn’t take into account the ups & downs. It is probably more like 1000km. No wonder our feet are a bit tender!
We did the walk in 61 days, and we are pretty pleased with ourselves, but when we were at the Helena Hut, almost 30k out from Kalamunda we met a young man who is trying to break the record of 17days. He was trying to get to the Hut at Mt Dale ton the first day which would be about 60k. He should be down on the south coast by now. Good luck.

But now it is back to reality, and lots of fresh vegetables & fruit and non dehydrated food….and planing perhaps The Pilgrims Way walk…who knows. Check it out http://www.travel-innovations.com/pilgrimswayselfwalk.htm

Thanks to all those who followed our progress…it’s been fun.

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Our Last Hut !!!!

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Sunset from Waalegh hut

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Leaving Dwellingup 25 May

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Waalegh Hut-Fri 2nd JUNE

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Summit Mt Cook on 27th

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Hut and fire tower ....... Mt Wells

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Mt Wells ...... by the fire

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Our old mate Peter Donovan ..... Much to our suprise has just taken over the Dwellingup roadhouse

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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.

2006-05-24T17:12:00.000+08:00

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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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Relaxing at the Premier Hotel - Collie. 15 May

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Leaving Blackwood. In the clouds, in the pines. 10 May

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Time for a rest !

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Blackwood - the best view. 10 May

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Gourmet lunch-Graphiti Cafe.5 May

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Gourmet lunch-Graphiti Cafe. 5 May

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Our 1st fire-Dog Pool 19 Apr

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End of a long day

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A bridge-somewhere before Northcliffe

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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.

2006-05-11T16:40:00.000+08:00

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!

2006-05-07T16:05:00.000+08:00

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!

2006-05-02T13:58:00.000+08:00

One of the huts ... after a long day

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One of the huts ..after a long day

Walpole to Pemberton..a bloody long way!

2006-05-01T13:33:00.000+08:00

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!

2006-04-18T13:43:00.000+08:00

Stage 2 Denmark to Walpole.
We had a great rest day at Denmark at the Blue Wren Backpackers. It is run by Graham (with help from his golden retriever Flint) who also has a lot to do with the Denmark Festival of Voices. We know several people in common, and it was a very enjoyable stay. Stocked up on provisions, but found there was a convenience store at Peaceful Bay, just 3 days away, so we didn't have to carry too much. We also posted about 4kg of unnecessary gear back home.

Day 1 Denmark to William Bay 9.7k
Graham drove us out to the base of Mt Hallowell, and it was good to be walking among trees for a change. Over the top then back onto coastal scrub to the hut at William Bay (and onto the second map. There are 8 maps in all.)

Day 2 William Bay to Boat Harbour 24.7 k
Over the hills from the hut to Mazzoletti Beach, and a hard 8 k walk at high tide (this meant we were walking on soft sand) to Parry Beach, and a very welcome cup of tea from Sam, the caretaker of the park there (complete with cream biscuits!)
12k then through the coastal dunes to the hut at Boat Harbour - and the first hut on our walk that we had to share. Tristan, and his father in law John from Bunbury were walking in the opposite direction, and were looking forward to finishing at Denmark. Tristan had grown a great crop of blisters!

Day 3 Boat Harbour to Peaceful Bay. 24k
This was our hardest day yet
10.7k through coastal dunes - 5.3k along another soft sloping beach, across the Irwin Inlet by boat, and a boring (never ending it seemed) 7.6 k through coastal scrub & sand hills to Peaceful Bay.
Fish & chips for dinner, and we managed on the eve of Easter to scrounge an onsite van -with the most comfortable bed yet!- at the Caravan Park. Hot showers and as I said fish & chips - but you had to order them ahead! Slept from 8.00pm right through to 7.00am without moving once!

Day 4 Peaceful Bay to Rame Head 12.4k
A nice fairly easy days walk.
From Peaceful Bay out the coast - on the beach, and in the dunes- to Point Irwin. Along the coast to The Gap, then the track has been re-routed inland through some pretty boring country to Rame Head. Once again a share night. Tim & Mila from Perth (Tim also has a house in Walpole) and Marie the Kiwi from Toodyay, and her friend Meg from Geraldton way. These four became great friends all the way to Walpole. Also that night we had the pleasure of the company of Sally (with the killer smile!), Karen & Clair - three young mums taking a couple of days out for Easter for a bush walk. Got to be one of the highlight evenings of the walk!

Day 5 Rame head to Giants 17.7k
Pretty nice days walk. 3k from the hut to Conspicuous Beach then inland to trees again! We lost the track at the beach - someone had souvenired a marker- but followed roads for a few kms until we picked it up again. A pretty tough 1km climb up the hills before reaching the Giants Hut. Company again! We slept 15 in the hut, plus at least 6 tents scattered around outside - it is Easter after all! We were still in bed by 7.30pm though.
Day 6 Giants to Frankland River 13.9k
2k out from the hut we came to the tree top walk, but is was a bit early, and it wasn't open yet. We did it anyway and got caught and severely reprimanded (and also had to pay $6 each!) Ah well, life can be like that!
A gentle walk through the tingle forest to the Frankland River Hut, and another crowded night. (Tim & Mila, and Meg & Marie of course who were travelling in our direction) and would you believe, a bunch of 7 or 8 Kiwi "trampers" who had flown over to "tramp" the Walpole to Albany section of the track. (What is the collective noun for Kiwis? �. A flock ??) Great people- but it was like being on an overseas holiday with all that foreign language around!
When we arrived at the hut, Tim & Mila were already there (they are fit, and fast walkers!) plus two kids in their 20s - Justin & Doug. They had been at the hut all day drying out. They had slept outside the night before, and it started to rain (actually it was more like a deluge than rain). Everything they had was saturated. Instead of coming inside when the rain started, they decided to stay out in it. They spent all day in the hut hanging out clothes, sleeping bags etc to dry. When the Kiwi mob arrived, they decided the hut would be too crowded, so at 4.30pm they decided to walk on to the Giants Hut - a 3 hour walk. Crazy bastards!
Mila sat down that night with Margaret, Marie & Meg and did a personality profile on them. Much laughter and merriment. They all worked out that there was no hope for any of them. Margaret reckoned that you couldn't improve on perfection anyway, and the other Ms were only too eager to agree!!!!!

Day 7 Frankland River to Walpole 17.4k
A most enjoyable days walk - except for Margaret's last 3 k - but more of that later.
A gentle 7 k walk through the tingle to a track where we hid our packs in the undergrowth. Then we "put our tables away, returned our seats to the upright position, fastened our safety belts, and began the 10k descent into Walpole".
3ks from Walpole, Margaret's blister on her little toe went squelch (she went 'bugger') and our pace appreciably slackened. She limped into Walpole and an hour later we booked into the Tingle All Over Backpackers where we are treating ourselves to a (we think) well earned rest day.
Tim went back in his car to pick up the backpacks and we were reunited with them mid afternoon.
Time to stock up on provisions, and wash ourselves and our clothes - the few we hadn't sent home from Denmark- and sample the local wines. We had a bottle of Frankland Estate Shiraz with our dinner at the Wooze & Sues Cafe.

Talk to you in 8 days time from Northcliffe.

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The Southern Ocean

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Point Irwin - The other direction

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Point Irwin

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Meg & Marie

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After a 6hour bus ride from Perth, we spent a most enjoyable night with John &
Barbara Watson in Albany. They cooked us a beef roast as the last meal of the
condemned! then delivered us next morning to the Albany visitor's Centre - start
point of the Bibbulmun. Finally....
The longest journey begins with a single step...... one small step for
man....and all the other misquoted cliches.

THE FIRST STAGE. ALBANY TO DENMARK 75km
Day 1. Albany to Hidden Valley Hut. 19.4km
After a long boring walk around Princess Royal Harbour on a paved bike track,
and up over the hills on the edge of the Torndirrup National Park, we travelled
west along the coast through the majestic Wind Farm. A long 19.4 km with sore
feet, and a refreshed memory of just how heavy a fully laden back pack can be,
we arrived unheralded at Hidden Valley Hut. An early dinner and then bed - only
to be woken at 12.30am by of all people "the Phantom" and his dog "Sparky". He
was just passing through, Stopped for a cup of tea - then on to Albany. He had
left Torbay Hut - that we were making for the next day- at 6.00pm. He waded
across the fast flowing Torbay Inlet at 9.00pm, and nearly lost sparky to the
fierce current. The bar had been opened on Tuesday and the current was still
fierce. He was making for Albany where he had a 9.00am appointment. (We reckon
with his shrink!!!)
Day 2 Hidden Valley to Torbay Hut. 16.9km
Sore feet again but hey - how sore can they get!
4.5km through coastal scrub then down onto the beach at Muttonbird Island.
8.8km along the sand in bare feet. The sand was soft and we had to wade across
the waist deep Torbay Inlet (by now the current had eased)and our feet were
cool. At Cosy Corner we left the beach and climbed 100meters or so of
stairs!!!!!, then a short 2.5km to the hut, which we had once again to
ourselves, and without interruption.
Day 3 Torbay to West Cape Howe 16.7 km
Threcing through some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable. The pristine
West Cape Howe National Park - home to kangaroo tics, snakes, blistered feet,
heavy back packs, and a set of stairs that make yesterdays look link gives its
a wheelchair ramp! (It also name to a rather nice drop of red!)
We stumbled into the hut mid afternoon, and did nothing. We were
absolutely..........,,well we were pretty tired! After all it was the third day.
Day 4 Cape West Howe to Nullaki 16.7km
We found this day to be a hard days walk. The ups seemed to go forever, and the
downsdidn't last long enough. Two small snakes that got out of our road pretty
quickly, and three hikers coming the other way were the 'stand outs' for the
day. Once again some magnificant scenery, but half the time, hey who cares..
Going through my mind...
Margaret: "I've just been bitten by a tiger snake!"
Geoff: "So, what's your point?"
Still we made it into the hut in time for afternoon tea, and a good lie down!
Rang the ferry to arrange to get across Wilson Inlet and into Denmark in the
morning, only to find that the water was too low for the boats to opperate.

Day 5 Nullaki to Denmark.
Plan 2 - take a taxi!
We hiked down to Eden Rd and met out taxi who took us in to Denmark, and the Blue
Wren Backpackers. Had a shower and did some washing!!!!
REST DAY IN DENMARK TOMORROW.
We are told the pub does a great steak....sounds good to me.

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Boardwalk over Swamp - take 2

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Boardwalk over Swamp

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The Track

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Our home

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Music everywhere

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These Boots!!!!!

Why???

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After 31 years in business, we find ourselves with spare time as never before.
We have decided to "End to End" the Bibbulmun Track, http://www.bibbulmuntrack.org.au/ -check it out.
We are going to walk it from Albany upwards hopefully finishing late May or early June 2006.
Our 4 main reasons for doing the walk are ~
1. Because we can!
2. To get us a bit fitter, and to shed those Christmas kilos.
3. To give us time to get our heads around our new life.
4. To get us off the grog!!!!! (not that that's a real problem yet!)
We decided we must keep a diary of the walk, and because many people seem interested we decided to do it this way. We will be updating this site aprox every week when we hit a town with internet access.
It is all new to us but our fancy new 'phone takes photos so with a bit of technicological luck, we should be posting photos as well.
..............................................stay tuned!