Yalgorup National Park

Yalgorup National Park is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 105 km south of Perth, and directly south of Mandurah. the name rises from the two Noongar Aboriginal words Yalgor meaning lake and up meaning place of.

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