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Début du voyage
30 août 2025
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Bibbulmun here we come
30 août 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
After catching up with kids in Akl, triple birthday celebrations, exciting news from Ben & Dani, & a Warriors game, Hilary & I flew to Perth to take on the Bibbulmun Track.
The first stage, Kalamunda to Dwellingup, is 10 days long, so posts might be sporadic at firstEn savoir plus
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VoyageurGo well you guys. I look forward to following your journey. X
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Have a great trip guys. Hopefully that long leg to start isn’t too tough. Look forward to updates. Very envious [PHILIP]
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VoyageurAlways exciting to get started. Good luck-look forward to the updates.
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VoyageurYay… you’re on your way!! Enjoy ☺️
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On the trail
1 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Our trail angel, Lari, got us to the trailhead around 9am & Hilary & I were underway. Blue skies & a solid 21km first day from Kalamunda through to Ball Creek campsite. Very different bush to home - we were quite taken with the black trunked, grass trees called Balga (or 'blackboys' as the Aussies subtly refer to them). The campsites have a 3 sided shelter with platform bunks (byo mattress), water tank, camping spots & a fire pit - everything you need. Good to finally be on the trailEn savoir plus
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Darling Scarp
3 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
19km day 2 continued in the Darling Range & the Helena River valley, continuous hilly terrain, numerous rock formations, wandoo woodlands & lots of 'blackboys'. Wild flowers are starting to bloom.
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Mt Dale
3 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Days 3 & 4. Waalegh to Mt Dale 23km, & Mt Dale to Canning campsite 19km, probably the most picturesque areas so far . A mix of Jarrah, karri & she-oak forests & open area filled with grass trees. Lots of colourful, raucous birds - our favourites are red tailed cockatoos. Evening chats around the fire pit are a highlightEn savoir plus
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Voyageur Haha
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Burnt Off
5 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Controlled burns to prevent dieback & reduce the fireload are a regular practice in the Aussie bush.
Our walk today from Canning to Mt Cooke was reduced from 28km to 21km as a section of track was closed. Thanks to our trail angels, Lari & Hedley, for getting a group of us around this section. Ironically, it was our first rain day.En savoir plus
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This looks like another amazing adventure Al. Looking forward to living vicariously through you and Hilary! X [Michelle Q]
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VoyageurIt's been great, very different to NZ bush. Hope Sydney is treating you well x
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Mt Cooke & beyond
6 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Up & over Mt Cooke, the highest point in the Darling Range at a whopping 582m.
Giant boulders & granite outcrops made for some interesting walking. Our first 30km day.
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VoyageurAll looks spectacular, Allen. So different from NZ. Are there many people on the trail?
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VoyageurA steady trickle. Has always been a few others at campsites each night. When are you off to India?
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Voyageur29 September 😊
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Ups & Downs
7 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
some decent climbs today, traversing granite dominated ridgelines with more granite outcrops & boulders. Then beautiful jarrah forest with wild flowers.
Camped tonight on Mt Wells next to the fire lookout tower. Not much chance of fires at the moment - been a fair bit of rain & 0 degrees overnight.
Planning to get to Dwellingup tomorrow, our first trail town, for a well deserved rest.En savoir plus
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VoyageurAwesome cuz ,neat pics,not to hot which is good,dont sit on a ant nest lol
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And on to Dwellingup
8 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
A freezing night (-3 with chill factor) & the sound of Boddington gold mind in the distance (Australia's largest ). Yesterday we walked the 34.7 km to Dwellingup, fortunately was fairly easy terrain, meaning we've walked the 202km first section in 8 days. Generally feeling OK, though tired, feeling pleased with ourselves & will enjoy a rest day today.
Saw Kangaroos the past 2 days but very hard to catch on camera - enlarge the little video below.
Part of today's walk was along an old railway line, mostly through Jarrah forest that was a bit wetter & a bit lusher - very pretty.
Dwellingup up is a lovely little one pub town - fortunately we only need one 😊 - with general store, so we'll re-stock, relax & hit the trail again tomorrowEn savoir plus
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VoyageurThe Dwellingup Pub looks very welcoming!! Enjoy your well deserved beers and pub food. Am sure it will taste so good!!
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Back on the trail
10 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Enjoyed the rest day in Dwellingup, but good to be back on the trail in great weather. A hilly hiking experience today through beautiful jarrah forest, with some decent climbs, before descending to Murray campsite on the Murray River. Early start & late finish, but plan to have a few shorter days now & enjoy some lazy afternoons.En savoir plus
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Murray River
11 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
On the map it looked like we'd be walking alongside the Murray River for a couple of days, but we were actually higher up walking through scrubby bush & only got the occasional view until we reached the 92m long Bilya Djena Bidi suspension bridge.
An unusual sight, & sound, in a conservation park was an alumina conveyor that transports bauxite 51km from the Boddington mine to the alumina refinery.
Shortly after the bush improved & we were walking through beautiful jarrah forest to our campsite. Seeing Kangaroos & raucous birds, etcmost days but bloody hard to photograph.
We've shared a campsite with the same few people the last few nights, which has been nice. Yahtzee can be quite competitiveEn savoir plus
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VoyageurLooks so cool!!!!!!
12/09/2025RépondreTraduire
VoyageurYou guys are zooming 😎
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Voyageurloving the updates Allen. It looks an amazing walk. Gosh you guys are doing some big km.
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Voyageurterrain is pretty good, though the body still feels it
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And on to Collie
14 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Big day yesterday (33km) from Possum Springs to Harris Dam. But good terrain, lovely bush & dodged most of the rain. Very crowded camp shelter &, with the rain set in, no one wanted to tent - nice surprise this morning, when the wife of one if the guys we've been sharing campsites with for a few nights, walked in (in the rain) from a road end with bacon, eggs, pastries, fresh bread & coffee (legend).
21km today into the next trail town, Collie. Very wet, so happy to overnight at Black Diamond Lodge & get back on the trail tomorrow in better weather.En savoir plus
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To Yabberup
15 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
A leisurely morning checking out Collie, buying supplies & the best 'big breakfast ' I've had in a while. Back on the trail along Collie river, & into some nice bush, for 19km to Yabberup campsite
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Voyageur Wow. Certainly looks a bit cold. Funny as I thought heat was going to be the issue. Did you go on the rope swing?
16/09/2025RépondreTraduire
VoyageurNo, we hadn't been walking long so wasn't really feeling it. Yeah south western Australia can be quite cold in Spring. About to change though - we've got a run of good weather ahead of us & forecasting 29° next Tuesday
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VoyageurBeautiful old buildings x
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Around Mumby pub
16 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Morning dip in the lake created by the Mervyn dam, & on to
Mumballup pub (unfortunately was closed).
Hilary's friend, Graham, picked us up & took us back to his farm for a bbq lunch, then dropped us back at the pub. From there, the trail was through farmland via an old railway line, then into the beautiful forest of Preston National Park & on to Noggerup campsite. A leisurely day but still clocked up 20kmEn savoir plus
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VoyageurJust been looking at the map. I assumed you would be near the coast but you are well inland. Still a fair way before you hit the sea.
17/09/2025RépondreTraduire
Voyageurearly Oct at best till we get down there
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Voyageurlove the scenery. certainly on my bucket list if my leg comes right.
17/09/2025RépondreTraduire
VoyageurI think it would be a really good one for you guys to do
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Voyageur 😂
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Preston National Park
17 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
rain overnight but cleared by morning for us to walk through the beautiful Preston National Park, highlighted by an old-growth jarrah forest of giant trees. Weather for the next week is looking good, but will get hot - 29° forecast for TuesdayEn savoir plus
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Balingup
18 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Not the most scenic day on the trail but pleasant enough walking that got us to the next trail town, Balingup. Stayed at Rails & Bails, the home of a hard case, old Aussie couple. Dinner was at Kirup pub with friends of Hilary. Recharged ready for a 35km day tomorrowEn savoir plus
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Things starting to change
19 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Big 35km day today - we need to do one every now & then to complete the walk in the time we have.
Started the day walking through farmland & jarrah forest, then following the Blackwood river before the bush began to change, getting wetter & more dense, with huge bullich trees .... & a bush called a snottygobbleEn savoir plus
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Donnelly River Village
20 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
camped last night by Gregory Brook & today walked to Donnelly River Village, where we've grabbed a bunk in the old school house. Saw the first giant Karri trees today, they get more numerous as we head south. The old timber town is an interesting place with emus & Kangaroos wandering around.
This afternoon's plan is to kick back & watch the AFL & NRL preliminary finals that are on today.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Is the trail well marked. Most photos make it look straightforward, but this one looks more overgrown. Looking out for snakes will be interesting. enjoy the finals. Hopefully you will find a pub next weekend to watch the AB's.
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Voyageurthe trail is really well marked, hard to go wrong, but occasionally......
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Voyageur Great photo Al x
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Voyageur Cute! 🥰
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Along the river
21 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
leisurely morning, waiting for the general store at Donnelly River to open so we could buy supplies & breakfast, then head off.
The track followed the Donnelly River through karri forest with dense undergrowth to tonight's campsite beside the river.
Beautiful day with good swimming.En savoir plus
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VoyageurNo problem getting photos of kangaroos today!
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Halfway
22 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Beautiful day, though the afternoons are getting hot, as the trail followed the Donnelly River through dense undergrowth & towering karri trees.
A big milestone also, as we crossed the halfway point of the Bibbulmun trackEn savoir plus
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VoyageurWell done. Powering along. Obviously safe to swim.
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VoyageurNice work guys! Nearly there ☺️
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To Pemberton
23 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Big day tackling one of the more difficult sections of the trail, with lots of ascents/descents, a couple of diversions (ignored one of them) & a very hot afternoon. The dawn chorus the last few mornings has been fantastic. Tonight we're free camping between a couple of official campsites.
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VoyageurHi Allen, I am following your adventure because I will do an E2E south up from the beginning of november.
25/09/2025RépondreTraduire
VoyageurSo free camping is no problem on the trail?
25/09/2025RépondreTraduire
VoyageurHi, what's your name?
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VoyageurYou're actually not supposed to camp anywhere but the official Bibbulmun campsites, but people do it from time to time when needed
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VoyageurSorry forgot to answer: I am Anne
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Pemberton
25 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Left the Donnelly River behind, walked past Beedleup falls & swam in
Big Brook dam &
Pemberton pool (a karri- lined
freshwater pool). We also saw our first snakes, which really gets you focused on where you step!
Rest day today in Pemberton. A lovely little town, of old wooden cottages & an historic pub - another ex-mill town (at one stage the largest milling complex in Australia) that has had to reinvent itselfEn savoir plus
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VoyageurMaking good progress, Allen. I’ve been wondering when snakes would be mentioned!
25/09/2025RépondreTraduire
Voyageur is that on the caravan park?
28/09/2025RépondreTraduire
VoyageurHi Anne, yes it's at the caravan park
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Gloucester tree
26 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Voyageur Did you climb up😬
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VoyageurNo, was closed for maintenance - I doubt they'll reopen it for general use
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Voyageurwhat a pity😚
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Voyageur Great photo Al
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Warren River
27 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
Fairly relaxed day, largely following the Warren River to a beautiful lakeside campsite & compulsory swim - turned out to be our busiest campsite so far, being a long weekend
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Swamp land
29 septembre 2025, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Had a few days that weren't that inspiring - burnt swamp land really & flooded tracks - but most trails have some days like that. So we focused on the little things - in this case, orchids! These ancient plants have evolved over millions of years & are very cool.En savoir plus
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VoyageurGreat photos Allen. Those flooded tracks must be a pain.
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Pingerup Plains
1 octobre 2025, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Great day today on the Pingerup Plains - & a long day, clocked up 41km.
Still pretty swampy but lots of variety & probably the most remote part of the trail.
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Voyageur41km is impressive. Love the vegetation. So different from NZ. What sort of food carries are you doing? Good selection to resupply?
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Voyageurprobably about 5 days food on average. The longest section is the first one, being 10 days, so arranged a food drop halfway through. Trail towns are fine for resupply
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VoyageurGreat photos! Thought that was a croc for a minute 😳
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