- Start date: 30 August 2023
- Age When Completed: 62
- Direction Walked: North to South
- Others in Group:
Sherpa Shane
General Comments
We had so much readily available information at our disposal. It really made planning our walk so much easier. We were very grateful to the BTF team.
Food/Supplies Comments
above and beyond to facilitate our change of plans and deliver our supplies to Mount Cook. As an added bonus we were gifted avocado, fresh coffee, cakes and dried persimmon (a first taste for us and absolutely delicious). Almost everything else was available in track towns.
Favourite Section
Long Point to Mt Clare. It was incredibly exciting to see a garden in the dunes.
Highlights
Being able to complete the walk after fracturing my wrist before walking into Balingup was fantastic. Big thanks to my husband (Sherpa Shane) for tying up my laces for 600 km’s, not to mention setting up camp every afternoon and packing up of a morning. We did it!
Personal Reactions
To be honest, I was bit ambivalent about hut dwelling for two months. As it turns out missing my privacy wasn’t an issue as there were so many interesting and like minded people to chat with who had so much information and knowledge to share that it compensated for loss of quiet time.
Wildlife
Our up close and quite surprising encounters with snakes was bit rattling. No harm done though.
Your Best Equipment
Physiocrem saved the day for me. I used it daily on my ankles and knees. There wasn’t much left at the end of the walk due to other people using it.
Your Worst Equipment
Without a doubt my Nemo sleeping mat. We were able to buy a Sea to Summit air mattress online which we then picked up in Dwellingup.
Advice for Others
Take it slowly, look after your body and stretch every afternoon and then stretch again.