Transfer length: 7 days
Caves Caravan Park, Yallingup – meeting place day prior to start of trek
Day 1 Cape Naturaliste to Yallingup 14km
Day 2 Yallingup to Moses Rock carpark 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:
Includes:
7 day itinerary hike booklet with maps and important features
Assistance with downloading the navigation app
Daily on-ground support
Taxi transfer to start, Cape Naturaliste
Taxi transfer from Moses Rock Car Park to caravan park
Taxi transfer to Moses Rock Car from caravan park
Taxi transfer from Cape Leeuwin to Augusta
Please note that the dates shown do not include travel to and from Perth.
For terms & conditions
BYO Gear
Day pack carry:
- Day pack (we recommend 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:
- 1 sunhat covering ears and neck
- 1 pair hike boots or joggers – worn in and comfortable
- 3 pairs wool socks (swap around)
- 1 underwear for each day
- 1 pair of long trousers or shorts – loose and lightweight
- 1 long-sleeved top, shirt, or short-sleeved t-shirt. You wear the same one for at least 2 days
- 1 long-sleeved jumper to wear while hiking – lightweight, we recommend wool
- 1 lightweight rain jacket or poncho
Camp gear: (all gear including food is to be in one bag and placed and removed from the trailer by yourself each day)
- Tent
- Mattress
- Sleeping bag – warm, we recommend down (available to hire)
- 1 warm jacket, thermal or polar fleece
- 1 beanie & gloves if you feel the cold
- 1 pair camp shoes – hiking sandals, runners
- 2 loose-fitting pants for camp and sleeping
- Hiking shirts – sufficient for a clean shirt for every 2nd day
- 1 pair warm socks to keep feet warm and insects off your feet at night
- Head torch
- Personal toiletries – travel size
- Hydrolyte electrolytes – sufficient for 2 per day
Trek food suggestions
Very important to eat only low GI whilst trekking to avoid energy highs & lows. Repack an assortment of snacks into daily snap lock bags – 150g per morning, 100g for afternoon (jerky is good for pm).
- Nuts – almond, cashews, brazils, peanuts
- Dried fruit – mango, apples, apricots, etc
- Fruit leather
- Health food bars (check sugar)
- Rice crackers, biscuits
- Jerky
- Biltong
Lunch (Pack in large zip lock bags then prepare for each day hike at breakfast time. Make sure they are easy to prepare and eat on the trail.
- Pita or mountain break (keeps well in sealed plastic)
- Boiled eggs
- Fresh cherry tomatoes
- Tuna, beans, salad packets
- Non-refrigerated cheese https://foodsforantiaging.com/6-cheeses-that-can-be-left-unrefrigerated/
- Salami, mettwurst, kabana, fritz
- Kupe mayonnaise (Japanese)
- Jam, honey, peanut past
- Dry crackers (Vita Wheats, Ryvita)
Breakfast (you need about 150g per morning)
- Powdered milk
- Porridge
- Muslei
- Cereal
- Oat bars
- Breakfast bars
- Protein smoothies
Dinner – can be purchased at Yallingup and Prevelly
- Rice & Udon noodles
Sachets of tuna/salmon (add to Asian noodles)
- Salami
- Tandaco one pan dinner
- Dinner Winner
- Couscous with herbs, nuts, seeds
- Dried mushrooms & dehydrated peas
- Fresh potatoes, carrots, corn, cabbage, tomatoes
- Dehydrated peas
- Deb dried potato with onion (use for energy and to thicken dinner)
- Kewpie salad dressings
- Spices to add to your food
- Oil and condiments in small tight-lidded containers
Sweets
- Pancakes
- Popcorn
- marshmallows – campfire smores
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.
