Pemberton to Walpole

This could be subtitled swamps, snakes, sand-hills and --- sea! We still walked through areas of stunning Karri forest, but also through more open agricultural land. The tracks have been fantastic and full of variety.

We took a day off in Northcliffe where the wonderful Lucy at the hotel made sure Rob's birthday was celebrated in style by producing cake and candle and getting everyone in the hotel to sing Happy Birthday. Very special.

Mt Chance

We climbed up wonderful granite domes for panoramic views of the surrounding countryside and amazing plant life.

Orchid on Woolbales Dome

Several days of particularly flat terrain meant swampy track - one inundated section was more than 150 metres long, but only up to our knees. Hidden holes nearly toppled us over at times but we managed to retain our balance and our pride!











We saw gorgeous flowers on the side of the track including this startling bright red bottlebrush.

Longpoint shelter

Several shelters were shared with friendly, interesting trail buddies - here we are all spread out at Longpoint shelter after the most spectacular day walking through sand-hills and reaching the sea. We felt a real sense of achievement when we heard those breakers crashing on the shore.



Southern Ocean

That same day between 7 of us we saw 10 snakes!! Scary critters.

Now we are in Walpole where we found a surprise parcel from Rose, Sam and Em - a bottle of very classy cab sav and a box of special chocolates. What a wonderful and generous thought. Let me finish by saying we over-indulged last night - and intend to do the same again tonight.