places I have been

Bibbulmun Track

Paintings to date :

bibbulmun track : Oil on canvas | 2007
bibbulmun : Oil on board | 2007

Bakit on net, backdrop for miXile sound performance in Greyfriars Gallery Waterford, October 06

Photographs:

"open cover"

Photographic journal of 15km trek section of Bibbulmun Track. Kalamunda, WA.

Located in the Perth hills, 24 kilometres east of the centre of Perth, the Bibbulmun Track Northern Terminus in Kalamunda is the starting point for walkers heading south.

about the track

Officially opened in 1979 the Track was named in recognition of the pre-European inhabitants of the area, the Bibbulmun and the Bibbulmun peoples' practice of walking long distances for ceremonial gatherings. The track travels across the mts to Albany on the south coast of Australia, at the edge of the Nullarbor Plain. The Bibbulmun Track now stretches nearly 1000kms through a wide variety of jarrah, marri, wandoo, karri and tingle forests, interspersed with sections of coastal peppermint and heathlands.

The Nyoongar people of what is now Western Australia believe that Waugals (rainbow, or maned serpents) moved across the unmarked land of the south west, leaving traces of their journey.

The day's walk started at Kalamunda National Park and crosses Piesse Brook to climb the valley slopes through woodlands of jarrah, marri, wandoo and the butter gum. Past the South Ledge / Golden View a viewing platform to end of section at Mundaring Weir - one of the world's great engineering projects. The dam, finished in 1903 supplies water by pipeline to the Kalgoorlie Goldfields over 550km away and was designed by engineer C.Y. O'Connor. We followed the pipe line for three days on our journey across the W. A. desert to South Australia.