Myalup

Bunbury to Mandurah, day 10, Wednesday 30 October 1991. This day was to be a challenge. For the third time I was going to do the 100km to Mandurah in one day. The first time, in 1979, I had the old Gordonson bike, the maximum temperature was 34deg and there was only a light SE to help me some of the way. I did the journey in 5 hr 50 min, leaving the Rose Hotel in the centre of Bunbury at 9.10 and arriving at the Brighton Hotel, Mandurah, at 3pm. The second time, in 1986, the same journey took 5 hr 48 min (6.18 – 12.06). On that occasion I had the present bike and I was attempting, successfully, to do the 164km from Bunbury to home in one day.  ... Read more

Myalup is a town located on the coast in the South West region of Western Australia between Mandurah and Bunbury. It has a population of about 200. The name Myalup is a local Aboriginal name for a nearby swamp (the word “mya” meaning the bark of a paperbark, which abound in the area). Myalup is on the southern edge of the Yalgorup National Park, a haven to native wildlife and bird sanctuary as well as a home to stromatolites – sedimentary rocks composed of layers of fossilised blue-green algae and one of the first lifeforms known to exist on earth.