Trail town, Balingup

3/5/2016

Balingup is a small town in a beautiful valley. It has a river, parks, main road shops and of course, the Bibbulmun track runs right through the middle of town.
It has a great tree park on the edge of town with trees from all over the world, around 70 hectares in total.
We stayed in the backpackers behind the post office, it's for sale again as it has been the last 3 times we have stayed. The current owner is by far the best at running the backpackers, not sure she likes the post office side though.. Available for the bargain price of $560,000 all inclusive!
Sadly, about every second house is also for sale and the town currently has no soul with empty or closed shops in the quaint main road, the ones that are open sell nick nacks or locally made artistic junk and not specialist hiking food we want... AND the pub has closed until it has a new owner ($1,275,000 if that is more your style..)
Still, a really nice place to visit and have a coffee and cake on the way through to somewhere else with a pub!

Nicola

4/5/2016 03:28:17 am

I just googled to see where Balingup is. Did you go to Balingup Lavender Farm for lavender ice-cream? Happy travels xx

David

4/5/2016 11:13:12 am

Hi Nicola. We were a little disappointed with this town. The only store in town had no food that is suitable for backpacking. Only tins and food that needs long cooking times and no variety either! The prices were way over the top too. We are now fingers crossed we can pick up some items in the next town or we might be hungry!

CHRIS POLLOCK link

4/5/2016 01:03:31 pm

Mate,
Not pretending to have any particularly clear authoritative information or advice in regard to diet whilst hiking...but,we found light cans of sardines,salmon or tuna to be a great source of protein,eg 5oz(142grms) of salmon has 70% of your daily protein requirement and the tins are light aluminium containers...Yummy

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