Last year our respective works graciously allowed Sandi and I (
Sandi is my wife) to take leave to walk the Bibbulmun Track: We were absent for a couple of months (most of the time putting one foot in front of the other on the track), and last week I posted the last day of our walk diary on our Blog and a
short summary. It's been 8 months since finishing the walk, 10 months after starting the walk and an amazing 16 months since starting the initial planning. During the break we diarised 44,416 words and took 9,621 photographs (most of which were on the track): these have been turned into 58 Blog Posts with 99,500 words and 4,359 photographs (no wonder it's taken 8 months and forced me to become a recluse ;-) ).
Experiences like the Bibbulmun are important for our sanity (…well, what we’ve got left).
I am overwhelmed by
the numbers of our experience though:
| 1 | journey |
| 2 | people |
| 12 | camp grounds |
| 35 | kg food eaten |
| 53 | overnights |
| 143 | SPOT messages |
| 316 | hours of walking |
| 1,021 | kilometres of track |
| 5,223 | total $cost |
| 9,106 | photographs taken |
| 44,416 | words written |
| 49,036 | metres skipped down |
| 49,407 | metres trudged up |
| 90,919 | GPS points recorded |
| 1,215,573 | footsteps walked |
Everything is collated on our Bibbulmun page:
The Bibbulmun Track :: The Mowbray Version, which has a lot of stuff on it (both fun and helpful - just in case you may need it)! The walk is grouped into the 8 weeks, and the 4K of photos have been published into subject albums: Flora (
North &
South),
Orchids,
Fauna,
The Track,
Trees (and
Stumps),
Fungi and
Panoramas.
Some time ago I shared our time-lapse (from
these slides), which was lots of fun, and generated quite a bit of comment – it does reveal our feelings at the beginning and end of the day:
Thanks to everyone for their support and interest (Mouser -- you were very quickly off the mark
): it was great fun and lots of fun remembering too… Like I wrote in Albany "The walk has finished ... I hope it doesn't end"
