Nelson Moore
Completed: 8 August, 2019
- Start date: 22 June, 2019
- Age When Completed: 19
- Direction Walked: Southbound
Track Towns and Supplies
- Did you have any issues finding food/supplies? Yes
- The trail diet is a simpler diet yes, but it doesn't have to be a boring one; peanut butter and Oreo sandwiches on Sunblest White bread will stay with me for the rest of my existence.
Your Story or Advice for Others
General CommentsI had no idea so many grass trees existed in one place let alone on my door step.
Your Best Equipment
$3 plastic poncho: tried and tested, irreplaceable piece of wet weather gear!
Your Worst Equipment
Goretex is a lie.
Advice for Others
It may be hard to be away from those you love but that disconnection is half the challenge, half the Freedom. Try not to be so infatuated with documenting your journey for yourself and for others, that you lose the essence of what it is to be out here, living and breathing, creating memories to keep in your mental storage; take a step back from your screens and see the world around you. Happy trails xx
Trip Details
How you completed the Bibbulmun Track:- All at once
- Who did you complete the Track with? Other - Ethan Robartson
- Was undertaking your hike the PRIMARY/MAIN purpose of your TRAVEL from where you currently live? No
- What first prompted you to walk the Bibbulmun Track? Other
Your Experience
There is wonder in every footstep in every patch of dirt, sand, stone, grass or puddle and I hate to have to pick a favourite, but moving between forest and the coastline between Walpole and Denmark made its mark on my heart and would have to take the cake.
Highlight of your trip
The obvious highlights would involve being joined by extra company between Pemberton and Northcliffe, but in saying that, one of the greatest highlights thinking back over it now (though not at the time) was on our third day being woken in the dark to start our next big double hut. Ethan had sworn it was getting lighter and neither of us were carrying any sort of watch or anything, so we marched on into the silence of the midwinter's night. We arrived at our designated lunch hut 15 or so kms into our day without any sign of dawn, so we rolled out our mats and went back to bed until we knew for sure the sun truly had risen. We will never know if we started off at 10 at night or 3 in the morning but that to me, is the beauty of it. (I also stubbed my bare, blistered toe in camp that night and lost my first toe nail.)