IF I was Kelly Slater, I would be frothing. On what is my first visit to Margaret River, I am blown away by the surf breaks that line the rugged Indian Ocean coastline. No wonder this part of the world is so revered by surfers far and wide. But I am not here to surf; I am here to hike, and it is very early in the piece that I realise that the Cape to Cape Track is just as much a siren call for walkers, as the waves are for Kelly, Owen Wright and a sea of surfers searching for stoke … and finding it.
My journey to the Cape to Cape, a much-vaunted track in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste NP in WA, is down to the C-word. COVID. What else was there to do in lockdown but walk? So I walked. And walked some more. And then had the idea that maybe my old legs could handle a proper hike. A REAL hike.
The wish list was fairly straight forward when I was hike shopping. I wanted luxury with my walk. I only wanted four
