Mo Fordyce (Honeymoon Hikers)

Track Towns and Supplies

• How many days did you stay in Track Towns? 10
• Did you have any issues finding food/supplies? No
• We had a lot of our own dehydrated food and everything else we needed we were able to buy in the track towns

Particular Track Towns that you would return to:

• Dwellingup
• Balingup
• Donnelly River Village
• Walpole
• Denmark
• Albany

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Your Story or Advice for Others

General Comments
It's not as hard as it sounds. With track towns scattered through the hike, it breaks it into manageable sections. Use the Bibbulmun Facebook page to gather information and help.

Your Best Equipment
Small water spray bottle to wet standard toilet paper to make it into a wet wipe.

Your Worst Equipment
No issues with any of my gear.

Advice for Others
1: Get track fit prior to starting. 2: Have replacement inner soles for your shoes, mine didn't last the whole trip. Maybe post them to a track town post office so you can make sure you get the right ones for you. 3: Eat nourishing food. You can get away with a poor diet on short duration multi-way hikes but not for 50 days straight. We met hikers on a diet of noodles, cup-a-soup and tins of tuna who admitted to losing a lot of weight and have trouble with cuts not healing. 4: Learn how to use hiking poles properly and take them.

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Trip Details

How you completed the Bibbulmun Track:

• All at once

• How many days did it take you to complete the Track? 61
• Who did you complete the Track with? With spouse/partner
• Was undertaking your hike the PRIMARY/MAIN purpose of your TRAVEL from where you currently live? Yes
• What first prompted you to walk the Bibbulmun Track? Word of mouth/friends
  

What did you use to navigate the Track?

• App (please specify)
• - Bibbibulmun App

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Your Experience

• Availability of information: Excellent
• Amount of Wildlife Encountered: Good - Tiger snake in the toilet at Blackwood Camp.

Favourite Section
Everything South of Northcliffe

Highlight of your trip
Seeing Gaynor lose her fear of snakes. The massive trees. The clear blue coastal waters. The effort that other people have gone into making and maintaining the 1000km Bibbulmun track. Meeting a volunteer in the Pingerup Plains doing maintenance and I was able to thank him personally. That Pea Gravel is better than walking up hill in soft sand. Hearing the Banjo Frogs. Watching Tiger and Dugites snakes scurry out of our way. Standing under a camp shelter watching hail comes down and thinking how lucky I am not being in a tent. Meeting other like minded hikers and sharing stories, ideas and other adventures. Track angels really are angels.

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