page_title: Bibbulmun Track
section_title: Track sections
hierarchical_section_title: Bibbulmun Track / Track sections
caption_attribution_description: English: Waugals (yellow triangles with a black snake in the centre) are the official Bibbulmun Track trailmarkers between Kalamunda and Albany in Western Australia. Always remember to "Follow the Waugals!"
context_page_description: The Bibbulmun Track is a long-distance walk trail in Western Australia. It runs from Kalamunda in the east of Perth to Albany, and is 1,003.1 kilometres long.
  It is managed by government agencies, and has a foundation.
  It traverses the Darling Range and has inspired reflections about the state of the Western Australian environment by William J. Lines in his book A long walk in the Australian bush.
  The name comes from the Bibbulmun, or Noongar people, Indigenous Australians from the Perth area.
context_section_description: The track consists of 58 sections and is marked at regular intervals with triangular signs, most of which have a symbol of the Wagyl. The Wagyl, or Rainbow Serpent, is a snakelike Dreamtime creature that is a common deity in Noongar culture. Each section is approximately one day's walk, except for the northernmost 150 kilometres (93 mi) or so, where the sections consist of half-day walks.  At the end of each section is either a town or a purpose-built campsite.  Each campsite consists of a three-sided shelter with wooden sleeping platforms, a water tank, a pit toilet, picnic tables and cleared tent sites.  In the northern half, most campsites also have a barbecue pit and plate (open fires are banned in the southern section).
  The Bibbulmun Track is almost all through state forest, national parks and other reserves, with only a few small sections of farmland.  The first half of the track is through the Jarrah forests of the Darling Range.  It then moves through flatter tall Karri forests until reaching the coastline near the town of Walpole.  The remainder of the track is through coastal forest and scrub along the south coast, in some sections routed along sandy beaches.
  The towns the track passes through are Dwellingup, Collie, Balingup, Pemberton, Northcliffe, Walpole and Denmark.
  Highlights of the track include:
  Mundaring Weir
  Monadnocks area and Mount Cooke
  Murray River Valley
  Karri Forests between Donnelly River and Denmark
  Tingle forest near Walpole
  Coastal scenery along the south coast
  Wildflower displays, birdlife and other Southwest Australian flora and fauna.
  Marine mammals along the south coast such as seals, dolphins and whales
  The Bibbulmun Track is managed by the Western Australian Parks and Wildlife Service at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and The Bibbulmun Track Foundation – an incorporated not-for-profit community-based organisation established to provide support for the department in the management, maintenance and marketing of the track to ensure that it remains a "long-distance walk trail of international significance and quality".  The foundation sells maps and guide books, offers trip planning advice, offers equipment hire and runs courses on camp cooking and navigation.
  Most people choose to walk sections of the track for one or a few days at a time.  Hardy walkers who walk the track from beginning to end typically do so in 6 to 8 weeks, although it has been completed in under 12 days. The most popular time to walk the track is during the wildflower season of spring (September – November), going from north to south as the wildflower season starts later in the southern areas. In summer the weather can be very hot and water will be hard to find except in the water tanks at the campsites. Winter can be wet, especially in the southern areas but people walk the track any time from March to December.
caption: The bright yellow sign with a symbol of the Wagyl that marks the Bibbulmun Track.
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