05/08/07: Bibbulmun Track 1

It’s only been a couple of days since I got home, but I’d been feeling a little lost. Not quite knowing what to think or do. Chris and I had decided a long time ago that we’d like to do the Bibbulmun Track, and while I was gone, he’d gone out and bought the maps. So today, we decided to take the puppies out and start from the beginning, and slowly work our way down one little tiny bit at a time.

The Bibbulmun Track is a walking trail that stretches from Kalamunda in the Perth Hills all the way down to Albany in the south coast of WA. It stretches over 1000km and covers easy to difficult bush tracks.

There’s also a bike track, but it’s not completed yet. The weather was absolutely divine for walking, and the puppies were very excited. We’d planned to walk from the first car park to the next, but Chris was so stressed out about the dogs being in a national park that he just didn’t look like he was enjoying himself at all. Everyone we passed were quite happy to see the dogs, who were very well behaved the entire way. Eventually, we turned back before getting to the next car park and found a nice little spot for a picnic (the dogs even had their own bones) outside the park boundaries.

It was actually just what I needed at this point in time because I’d missed the Australian bush. The wildflowers were just starting to come out and the sky was blue and the air was fresh and the birds were singing and all was well with the world. It was nice to be home.