@@SinaArsani hi, there are no restrictions on head coverings and I don’t think you and your wife will have any problems. It’s pretty lacking in shade so some kind of hat or head covering for anyone would be advisable. Hope you and your family enjoy the walk!

@@goinferal5815 excellent choice, it’s a lovely trail. There’s some sand slogging but getting to come into towns and have some Margaret River wine and beer makes it a nice relaxing change from a more wilderness experience

@@206898195311 thanks so much for watching and your kind words. I definitely understand that bittersweet feeling when finishing a trail but I was nevertheless happy to have done one of my favourite multi-days again. I will be on a one week break and then will drop the Freycinet Peninsula Circuit followed by Kiandra to Kosciuszko

This was starting the Kings Birthday Weekend (end of September) last year. Good luck with your hike, looks like it might be a bit rainy but at least you'll know whether you can pass the river mouth quite easily heading north... it's more risky heading south!

@@thelongwaysbetter Cheers, thanks..... can't wait!!

@@danc.5509 I try to hug a tree every season (though I forgot to do it on the Cape to Cape and in the NT)

@@thelongwaysbetter I'm very glad you remember to hug the trees. Thanking them for so many things they do for us!! I've visited this national park many, many times, but have only done the eagles view walk once. I hope to do it again. At 15 kilometres, it takes a minimum two hours for most walkers...I think it took me almost three hours... But well worth it !!

Thanks for watching! Yes, I agree Boranup Beach can be a real battle. Last time I did the Cape to Cape in 2017 the middle section of the beach was terribly soft sand and it made it all the more challenging as a result. This time it was more firm under foot, but I agree - that boat ramp seems to never get closer for a good chunk of the walking!

@@goinferal5815 not really at this time of the year tbh… they are much more reliably around in Summertime. Both times I’ve been there in spring there were no stingrays but in Summer there were so many of them!

Oh yeah the wildflower display was a bit nuts in the post-fire landscape! Made up for the burnt forest scenery

You're welcome, thank you so much for your kind words

@@sherenestrahan thank you for your kind words. Hope you enjoy your Cape to Cape adventure and have great weather!

@@206898195311 it’s a great walk for sure. I usually hike with poles but now that I’m shooting video my hands are now full and the poles are impractical unfortunately though in hindsight I wish I had used them as I developed Achilles Tendinopathy as a result of the long beach walking. Never knew about Nicholas Crane! I must look that up!

No worries, glad it was useful to you

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks guys! It’s a shame it wasn’t what it was supposed to be, but I hope the series goes some way to showing you what the hike would’ve been like.

Glad you enjoyed and are inspired to do it again! It’s a fantastic walk and worth repeat visits. I do like a hot meal at the end of the day, but the Shapes were sufficient. As I mentioned to Mark I’m more of a Pizza Shapes guy so that was probably my biggest disappointment :P

LOL you know me, I like a proper meal for dinner, and a hot one preferably! I may have been less disappointed if it was Pizza Shape though!

Thank you so much, it's a great trail 👍

Hahaha, ain't that the truth! And then it was such a saga to prove that we didn't actually stay and get our money back!

In my defence, the path up was unmodified, and the gorge bends to the right from that point, so I saw the sign but didn’t know to interpret it as ‘go straight up to the right’

Hey, I remember you! Yeah that was one of my favourite walks of the trip, dead fish water wading and all! Thanks, and best of luck with your own adventures

Thank you, it’s a great one. I knew it would be good but it was probably even better than I had anticipated!

Thanks Kevin! Glad you’re enjoying it while out on your hike!

Yeah, it does look silly but in the open sunny parts it was a godsend

I'm sure it is quite different!

Very fun! Even with the gross dead fish!

Great choice of campsite... what an amazing spot! I know that area really well now because I thought I left the drone behind there and ran back to check for it, only to find out that I had put it down on the ground and got distracted when other people arrived near where the track goes between the domes 🤦

Glad you enjoyed it… thanks for watching!

Oh wow, that’s awesome! I was just saying how much of a masterpiece of a trail it is, particularly that section along the ledges with the view of the mini-Bungle Bungles and then through them to the end. Thank you for your service!

The Larapinta will happen one day. The biggest barrier for me is that it is two weeks of walking in the middle of the year, which has been a challenge as when Alissa hiked with me it would take up her entire school holidays and now I’m a consultant we close in the Summertime for two weeks which chews through my leave and is the worst time of the year for most hiking in Australia, and really leads to it being mostly Tassie, the High Country and New Zealand. Now that I’m filming rather than blogging it is also a bit harder to do anything over a week due to the extra battery requirements but I’m sure so can find a fix for that in the long term. I’m hoping to reach long service in 2029 as I’ll likely use someone of that to do something like the Larapinta Don’t worry, the blog won’t be deleted. I see what I’m doing now as a continuation not a replacement if that makes sense.

Oh yeah - and Ormiston Pound is coming!

@@thelongwaysbetter Yes it is a big time commitment and holidays are at a premium. Pleased to hear about the blog 🙂

Thanks Kevin. Yeah the short walks up there are incredible. I do really love the Outback scenery of places like the Red Centre, there’s just something magical about it!

This would have been in September. I reckon most of the trails in Perth are at their absolute best between August and up to mid-October. Hope that helps!

@@thelongwaysbetter Yes, it sure does, thanks 🙂

I spend way too much time in the Sun to not think about shade, and as a Western Australian I have to say you may not get as hot as Perth, but that Summer Sun in Tassie is cutting! Agree Tassie water is extremely low risk but the Lifestraw was from our drink bottles which are general Australia-wide use, and the drinking from a creek with a straw thing is a bit of a inside joke. Thanks for watching!

Hi Grant, thank you so much for sticking through right to the end, and I'm glad you enjoyed the series. Always glad to meet other patch collectors too! This patch is one I've coveted from afar for many, many years after first seeing it on Instagram and I was really glad it was still in production when we did the hike. I see you've done your own video on the South Coast Track. I look forward to watching it!

It's a good one. Hopefully the area isn't too burnt... I drove past Sullivan Rock and the Monadnocks walk looks like it got quite badly burnt in the recent bushfires but it looked like Mount Cooke wasn't as badly affected

@thelongwaysbetter there was alot of burnt scrub but alot of new green growth. Id like to do it again during winter

Thanks for you kind words, I'm glad you are enjoying the videos! Based on my ancient Bibb guidebooks, Perth Hills Discovery Centre to Waalegh is 20.7km, and Waalegh to the Mt Dale pickup point is 18.1 km. We took a long time walking because I was filming. We got to camp 7 hours after starting on the first day, and the second day was 6 hours. So looking at a slow average pace of 3km/h, but that includes stopping for a not so quick lunch on both days, plus me walking back to get the camera after setting it up for shots multiple times

LOL, we considered it but definitely not worth it given the old crossing/pick up point Alissa was coming to get us from was just a few hundred metres from the track junction vs adding a couple of kilometres to go the long way round. We'll definitely do the realignment when I do the actual Bibbulmun series, but that's not happening until Miles is old enough to do it with me

It is a beautiful part of the world. This was filmed during my fourth Tassie trip and I definitely want to get back there again sooner rather than later

Thank you so much for the subscription, I've just subscribed back! Totally agree, sassafras is a great word :)

Totally agree with your recommended months range, first time I did it was in January and by the end of it I felt like I was on fire from the lack of shade. Definitely much more pleasant in the cooler months with Autumn and Spring probably providing the most balanced conditions, though you can luck out on one of those perfect cold but sunny and clear Winter days that are just perfection for a walk like this

It’s a real shame because if you look at the original project plan, it was meant to truly be the Three Capes but then for whatever reason they decided it was complete when it was just the Two Capes. Perhaps the dual boat transfers and buses to both ends would have made it too expensive given it is already a pricey track

@@thelongwaysbetter Yeah, but when I looked into it and then found out it was only 2 Capes, I felt lied to, so in my book it's pretty deceptive. Not really worth the price for what I consider a pretty dumbed down (all the bloody boardwalks) and below average walk, having done Cape Raoul first, made the subsequent cape views pretty disappointing in comparison. At least the huts were great but not really worth it for the cost. I guess it's good for clueless multi day hikers as their first big walk, but Tassie has much better walks at the fraction of the price (unless you are guided I guess). Because I feel decieved, I have a low opinion of the "3" Capes track. At least one has the option of doing the free 4/5 day walk from Port Arthur to actually make a nice hike lol. I think you mentioned you were about to do the SCT, that's.a nice one. Wonder if all the man killer bogs are still there.

That’s a very good question and I’m thinking of doing a gear list for this and the hike I’m currently on given the gear list is mostly the same. I’d say the umbrella while very useful for the first two days was a hindrance thereafter, so maybe not so useful for the South Coast Track, but then it has been my best piece of kit on the hike I’m currently on (the Cape to Cape, which has a lot more low heath and beach walking with no shade). I’m happy with my Lifestraw bottles but maybe something lighter as an alternative would be good but otherwise I’m pretty happy with most of my gear choices

Awesome! Nice to meet you and thanks for stopping by!

That’s a great idea Fayley, that would be a perfect way to experience it both directions!

Thanks Kevin! I did enjoy this walk, wouldn't have covered it in a video if I didn't think it was worth someone's time :P

It's a beautiful part of the world, easily some of the most spectacular sea cliffs anywhere in Australia

I’m aware of the recent fining of Rob Parsons. Rob is monetised and makes a money from KZfaq; I’m far from being eligible for monetisation so I would not be considered commercial and will not be for at least three years at the current trajectory. If I do get monetised and they are following this hardline in thee years time I’ll simply make it free with no monetisation

Thank you! I’m glad I’m not alone in crankiness on that last day, it just felt like such a long finale when it felt like we’d already experienced the best of the trail. Love that patch, it’s one I wanted for years and will have pride of place on my pack :)

Came to about 15 kg all up, but I was also hauling 4.5 kgs of camera gear which is quite a lot of extra weight to be carrying

Oof, that sounds significantly more challenging that what we experience! Yeah, the weather we had outstanding... two bits of drizzle, one was so inconsequential our tents were dry by the morning.