Bibbulmun Track Day 36 – Wandering Miner

Day 36

20.5 km

Cum 768 km

Camped: Long Point

The day started off drizzly, and carried on like that for the WHOLE day of walking… not cool rain!

Left the hut at 06h10 and got in at 11h50.

I should just copy paste all the puddle descriptions from yesterday as they are relevant to the first couple of hours today and then a change in scenery into more forests.

After a few hours and many a sand hills we saw the beach and the ocean for the first time!! Yay!! What an occasion! Not much time to celebrate as it was still drizzling and I can see the weather coming in from the ocean.

Make my way up and down more dunes and all the way to Mandalay Beach. The beach is stunning, golden, white sands and turquoise waters. There is an old shipwreck out at sea here but not visible very often. The walking on the beach though was tough, and all the sand walking has slowed me right down.

With the rain still coming down and the beach walk done the track continues up the dunes and more and more sand , hills, steps and it kept going.

The walking was behind the dunes where the vegetation reminded me of Cape Fynbos.

The last 5km or so seemed to go on forever, though there were some good views in the rain. The tops were exposed and fairly windy. I was pretty cold as was wet through! More steps and two decent hills , then finally the hut!

When arriving I saw there was someone there. It was Pack Animal (David). He has done 30 E2E and parts of the track up to 52 times!! So the afternoon was going to be interesting any which way 😉

About and hour after I arrived the sun came out as Doug and Sandy walked in.

It stayed out for a while, so we put our wet clothes out, hung there for a while ,then more rain came and so the afternoon carried on in that fashion.

At one sunny break I did the 1km walk to the Little Cove lookout. Nice sunny ocean views .

Was not 10min after I was back when it rained again.