Tales from the Track
We are always looking for stories for both our website and the member’s magazine ‘Bibbulmun News’. Why not email your story of adventure? Photos are more than welcome!
Click on the headings to read stories from walkers. They are not listed in any particular order.
Lucy Ridsdale (aka Wildgoose), Perth, WA 13 December 2016 My love of walking, and by walking I mean adventurous journeying on foot, started in 2001. I was living in France and heard an interview on the radio with a man who had just walked the Camino de Santiago. A strange knowing arose in me. I […]
Eric Bow , California, USA 6 December 2016 Many tourists travel to Western Australia to enjoy the pristine beaches around Perth, take a ferry over to Rottnest Island or explore the outback in a jeep. I didn’t. I came to hike the Bibbulmun Track. I’m a thru-hiker, a triple crowner, which means I’ve completed end-to-end […]
Sun-Mi Clyburn, WA 6 December 2016 I looked up at the stars through the thick canopy of the karri trees, took another sip of green tea from my aluminum mug and moved closer to the fire, the only source of light and warmth for tens of kilometers. My fiancée Kirk and I had made it […]
Colin Broun, WA 6 December 2016 Liz, on the Track We had not walked any of the Bibbulmun Track since 2008, so with the promise of at least six days of autumn sunshine my wife Liz, good friend Stan and I off. We took a taxi from Collie to the Glen Mervyn Dam, planning to […]
Alain Bourguignon, France 6 December 2016 My name is Alain Bourguignon, I’m from France, and I have just completed the Bibbulmun Track, filled up the form and registered as an end-to-ender. I didn’t have much time when I filled the form, and there was not much space to tell enough about my experience of the […]
Michael and Veronica Schulze, Germany 6 December 2016 Veronica and the Nothernmost Waugual In June 2013 my husband Michael and I finished our end-to-end between Albany and Kalamunda, from where we took the bus to Bridgetown, hitchhiked into Donnelly River Village and walked back another 300 km to Walpole—we loved the Bibbulmun Track that much! […]
Su Becket, Perth, WA This is a story of a very special person, Su Becket, walker extraordinaire, and her two daughters. Like the Yellow Brick Road in L. Frank Braum’s famous story The Wizard of Oz, the Bibbulmun Track lays its own claim to fame as a magical creation. Alana and Lindsey Reid were taken […]
Stuart Parks, Perth, WA 22 November 2016 People walk the Track for any number of reasons; some personal, some for a cause and some just because it is there. For me it was a combination of many reasons. I don’t come from a hiking background, and in fact had never done any sizeable walks, especially […]
Brigita Ferencak, WA 24 September 2015 Brigita Ferencak is a BTF volunteer and Life Member of the Foundation. She has completed two end-to-end walks and has a special affinity with the Track as she explains in her story: Lao-Tse, a philosopher of the 6th century B.C., made the statement, “The journey of 1000 miles begins […]
Stephen Van Mierlo, Attadale, Perth 26 August 2014 My Bibbulmun Track Journey Steve’s Bibbulmun Blob This ‘Blob’ is dedicated to my daughter who taught me success is about self-belief and following your passion, my son who treats everyday as the ‘best day ever’ and finally to a dear supportive friend, my wife.The ethos of my […]