Transfer length: 7 days
Yallingup Caravan Park – meeting place day prior to start of trek, normally the Yallingup Beach CP unless peak season then Caves CP
Day 1 Cape Naturaliste to Yallingup 14km
Day 2 Yallingup to Moses Rock 19km
Day 3 Moses Rock to Gracetown 18km
Day 4 Gracetown to Prevelly 18km
Day 5 Prevelly to Contos 19km
Day 6 Contos to Hamelin Bay 21km
Day 7 Hamelin to Cape Leeuwin 26km
Ex Yallingup includes:
7 nights camping fees and small amount of gas for hiking stoves
Pick up from Yallingup bus stop to Yallingup Caravan Park 1.15pm day prior.
Pick up and deliver of your Woolworths Dunsborough and Margaret Rivergrocery order
Transfer to start, Cape Naturaliste 8.30am
Daily transfer of your luggage to the next campsite
Transfer from Moses Rock Car Park to caravan park and return
Transfer from Cape Leeuwin to Augusta 2.15pm and 4pm (your arrangements ex Augusta)
Please note that the dates shown do not include travel to and from Perth.
For terms & conditions
Food for the hike:
We provide 1 zipped woolworths shopping bag per person to store your foods.
Click and we collect from Woolworths Dunsborough (4 days) and Woolworths Margaret River (3 days)
You will require groceries for breakfast, lunches and four dinners. The other three nights and at the finish you can enjoy local restaurants
You supply:
1 bag containing and weighing no more than 15kg
Your own tent and cooking gear (we will provide a small amount of gas to save you having to purchase on arrival)
Sleeping bag
Air Mattress
Trek poles (hire is available)
We recommend:
- Day pack (Osprey)
- Day pack waterproof cover
- 2 x one litre water containers, plastic tonic or soda bottles are suitable
- 2 sachets Hydrolyte Electrolytes
- 2 hiking snacks and your lunch
- Fixomul – small roll at chemist to prevent blisters
- Personal medication
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
Hike clothing: in one soft bag 15kg
- Sunhat
- Hike boots or joggers – worn in and comfortable
- % wool socks
- Underwear
- Long trousers or shorts – loose and lightweight
- Long-sleeved top, shirt, or short-sleeved t-shirt.
- Long-sleeved jumper to wear while hiking
- Rain jacket or poncho
- Warm jacket
- Beanie & gloves if you feel the cold
- Camp shoes
- Personal toiletries – travel size
- Hydrolyte electrolytes
Additional luggage: Should you have additional luggage not required for the hike; we can provide a soft bag and store at a small cost.
How fit do you have to be?
Hiking with a day pack is open to anyone with a reasonable level of fitness. Multi day trekking is exhilarating, but it will have its challenges for you and to get the best out of the experience, we suggest that preparation prior is important. To really test your ability to handle soft sand beach walking, and some steep (but short) climbs over loose limestone, we recommend for your training, to get off footpaths and bitumen as much as possible. As we all have busy lives, it may be that you can only fit in 1 hour walk two or three times a week and you may have to do this close to home on flat paths, but that’s better than nothing.
Extended day hikes, along with the 2 to 3 times a week, we recommend fitting a few hikes of 15km or more, with a day pack so that you get accustomed to what you will be doing on the multi-day hiking tours. The Bibbulmun Track, out of Kalamunda, has plenty of ascents and descents to give you and your body a good tryout.
Hiking boots/shoes & wool socks
We strongly recommend that you have very well-worn-in boots that you have trained in. Completing extended walks, greater than 15km, will trial new socks and boots allowing for you to have a blister free hiking.
Blister prevention
Purchase a couple of small rolls of Fixomull (chemist). Cut pieces to size and stick them on your feet prior to hiking for blister prevention. Also, if whilst you’re hiking you feel “minor rubbing or a hot spot”, stop straight away and cover with Fixomull. The Fixomull breathes and will stay on your feet over several days even when you shower.
Camp shoes
We recommend that you bring suitable sandals as your camp shoes so that they could also be used on sandy stretches or if blisters occur with your main pair of shoes/boots.