Gregory Brook Campsite

March, 2000

Gregory Brook Campsite is on the Bibbulmun Track on the banks of Gregory Brook. Its over 250 kilometers from Perth. I reached it from Bridgetown and returned home via Nannup. The Brockman Highway crosses between Bridgetown and Nannup; about half way is the nature reserve called Karri Gully. The Gregory Brook Campsite is only about 4 kilometers from Karri Gully reserve car park

The area surrounding the car park is absolutely beautiful. The big tall karri trees are absolutely magnificent.

From the picture on the left one sign says 'Beware of 1080 poison' and the other one tells you to take your rubbish home with you as there are no bins here.

The track starts off in very dense scrub, somebody should get busy with some garden shears. Its too dense for comfort really.

The track follows an old logging track then heads off into the bush proper. The bush then thins out as bushfire is eveident. All of the trees are black due to the fire and some waugal signs have been destroyed. The fire is probably less than 1 year old.

On parts of the way it is easy to lose your bearings as the track becomes indistinct due to bushfire having burnt all of the low-lying scrub away.

It looks like the bush is recovering well though.

There are no bins provided at any campsite. Visitors have to take their rubbish away with them. I find that they mostly do this too as the campsites are generally very clean.

The car park to this day trip is 19 kms from Nannup and 23 kms from Bridgetown.

This is the car park area in Karri Gully just off the Brockman Highway. Just above the wheel of my car you can see a sign that says 'Bibbulmun Track'.

The campsite at Gregory Brook. Sturdily built with two inside bunks. All are built in a similar way.

Amongst the burnt-out trees there was this log completely burned to ashes. It was very eerie. Probably due to spaceships, the paranormal and the disappearance of Harold Holt.

The logging company didn't want ths log so they just left it. This is typical of the forest in general, but not so much in this small area.

With the bush-fire burning away the loose scrub, sometimes its, 'What happened to the track?', 'Where am I?' ,'Am I lost?'

In spots the bush was so thick that it covered the track making passage difficult.

This ant-hill along the Bibbulmun Track was made from mud and is about a meter and a half high.

This is another ant-hill. This one'sabout a meter tall.

The toilet facilities at all of the campsites are good. They are generally clean and well maintained and equipped with toilet paper.

These black-boy trees survived the bush-fire very well. Now due to 'political correctness' we have to call them 'grass trees'. Doesn't have to same ring to it as black-boy does it!