Simon Parker (Spikey Wombat (Grumpy Si))

Track Towns and Supplies

• How many days did you stay in Track Towns? 6
• Did you have any issues finding food/supplies? No
• When ringing up the smaller towns / stores, to enquire about stocked food and supplies, ask them to be specific if you can. When they say "we have everything for walkers", that may differ from your defintion of everything. :)

Particular Track Towns that you would return to:

• Kalamunda
• Dwellingup
• Collie
• Balingup
• Donnelly River Village
• Pemberton
• Northcliffe
• Walpole
• Denmark
• Albany

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Your Story or Advice for Others

General Comments
Be prapared as much as you can, through training, testing out all your gear and working out your food. Also, shit happens on track so don't stress if everyting isn't as exactly as expect or want it to be. Embrass nature and the nature of the track don't try and bend it to your will.

Your Best Equipment
Poles, pack, tent, crocs, poncho.

Your Worst Equipment
NA

Advice for Others
Enjoy all of it.

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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? 51
• 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? No
• What first prompted you to walk the Bibbulmun Track? Word of mouth/friends
  

What did you use to navigate the Track?

• BT Maps
• Other
• - Garmin GPX file

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Your Experience

• Availability of information: Excellent
• Amount of Wildlife Encountered: Good - Wildlife sighting were fair and I loved the superb blue wren and the red tailed black cockatoos were amazing but all the wild flowers and orchids were brilliant.

Favourite Section
All of them were great but I thought Northcliffe to Walpole was fun and different.

Highlight of your trip
So many, but meeting our new friends if top of the list.

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