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18/08/2024

Springtime on the Cape to Cape Track is on our doorstop... and what a time of year! 💐🌷🌹🥀🌺🌸🌼🌻

18/08/2024

Yahoo!! Our first Guided End-to-End adventure on the Cape to Cape Track for the spring 2024 season kicks off in less than a fortnight! 👣👣

A new group of keen hikers will spend a week tackling all 132km of Margaret River's stunning coastal trail between Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse in the north and Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse at the southern terminus, walking alongside our expert guides.

We'll put the champagne on ice and see you at the end!

These photos are from this time last year, when our first group of keen-as-mustard hikers got the ball rolling on our guided spring season - making memories to last a lifetime 😀👍

17/08/2024

A short hike near the Cape to Cape Track today and our guide Trev spotted these three incredible, beautiful and dainty orchids. So exciting!!

First up is the Fringed Leek Orchid, with those incredible tasselled flowers lit up like a landing strip for arriving pollinators. Then there's Red Beaks, which only bloom after fire and are flowering in this location thanks to the December bushfire in the Boranup Forest. And finally a Jug Orchid, with its bulbous shape - a perfect jug shape to lure in inquisitive pollinators.

We are just mad about the incredible flora of the Cape to Cape Track, including the dazzling array of wildflowers and orchids we find daily. Ahhh bliss!!

16/08/2024

Our founder Gene Hardy relishes getting out on the Cape to Cape Track and sharing it with visitors to the Margaret River 🌊👣👍✅

This week he showed some special guests from Indonesia a half-day taste of the Track under moody skies from Smiths Beach to stunning Canal Rocks.

Their verdict? Bagus!!

14/08/2024

The team getting stuck into some track pruning and maintenance ahead of our spring hiking season on the Cape to Cape Track! Top work everyone 👍👏

We’re part of the Friends of the Cape to Cape Track. And we’ve adopted a section to care for from Bob’s Hollow along Contos Cliffs (which just happens to be one of the most spectacular too)!

14/08/2024

Did you know WA is home to 180 species of spider orchids, of which 140 are found in the South-West corner, where the Cape to Cape Track and the Margaret River region is located? 🐸

This has to be one of the more spectacularly coloured - the Reaching Spider Orchid, with its distinctive hues and clubbed petals and sepals 😀

This one was photographed by our guides in Margaret River's Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, and makes for some great inspiration for getting out on the Track as a host of spider orchids start to bloom in spring! ✅

12/08/2024

Spring is just around the corner and that means our most popular season for hiking the Cape to Cape Track! 🥾

It’s home to majestic Karri forest, granite formations, limestone cliffs, and of course some of the best beaches in Western Australia - perfect for kicking off your shoes and giving the feet a soak in the Indian Ocean! 🌊

In this pic is Boranup Beach, where you’ll find some of the whitest sand and clearest waters around! 🙏

12/08/2024

Love hiking? Love nature? Love adventure? Then it's time to get excited about our fully-guided 6-day “Walpole Wilderness Experience” on the Bibbulmun Track. Our 2025 dates won't last long before being booked out! 🐍

You'll walk through ancient tingle forest and along rugged coastline, but with a slightly more relaxed pace than our Cape to Cape Track end-to-end hikes 👣

By your side will be our professional guides - they have plenty of knowledge, experience and passion for interpreting the beauty of the Track. And the experience includes cracking accommodation, delicious catering, and some of Walpole’s most famous attractions (think Valley Of The Giants Tree Top Walk and the WOW Wilderness Ecocruise) 🐬

Check out www.capetocapetours.com.au/specialty-tours/ for all the deets!

11/08/2024

Helmet orchids flowering now on the Cape to Cape Track! 🌼

These guys are some of the most unique orchids you’ll find, with their single green leaf and unusual helmet-like flower ✅

The flower looks and smells a bit like fungus and that’s for good reason - because it’s pollinated by fungus-loving insects, flies and gnats. A crafty deception by this master of mimicry! 👍

10/08/2024

Make new friends and reconnect with old ones during a hike on the Cape to Cape Track! Our guided adventures are all based on small group numbers, meaning you'll be hiking with like-mind souls. You might arrive as a stranger and leave with some new best mates 😀🦋🐟

Plus you'll walk each day with a different Cape to Cape Explorer Tours guide. We're all passionate and experienced, with a love of sharing our backyard with visitors.

We've trekked, surfed, fished and dived this coastline for years- so you're in good hands! See www.capetocapetours.com.au/guided

09/08/2024

Under the canopy in the beautiful Boranup Forest, where Karri trees soar towards the skies and hikers below explore the Cape to Cape Track! These majestic forest giants can grow up to 90m in height - almost as tall as the Calinfornia Redwood! 🌿

Karris can live for 400 years, with an impressive root system below the ground almost as extensive as their branches above ground. In fact, their roots have been found in subterranean caves almost 100m beneath the surface! 🦋

There's a lot to love about Karri trees. Their trunks go a ghostly white in summer, and they shed bark to create their own compost and enrich the soil for the many ground-dwelling plants, animals, insects and invertebrates below. Give one a hug today! 🌳

08/08/2024

Not long till wildflower season takes over the South-West with a riot of colour and spectacle - and we can't wait 😁😁😍😍💐💐

Spring is one of our favourite times of year, and one of the most spectacular for hiking the Cape to Cape or Bibbulmun tracks! 🐍

Our ancient landscape has meant plants have been evolving for millions of years, with incredible adaptations to niche ecosystems - meaning more diversity of species in one acre of some sections of national park than in all of England! 🌿

07/08/2024

How beautiful is this Australian pied oystercatcher, snapped during a hike on the Cape to Cape Track traversing Boranup Beach in The Margaret River Region 🐦

These guys are beach specialists, nesting just above the high tide mark and prising open molluscs with their perfectly adapted chisel-like beaks. Oh and we love their bright red colouring on legs and beak - now that’s style!! 😍

Find out more about the Track's flora and fauna at www./capetocapetours.com.au/cape-to-cape-track/

06/08/2024

Made it!!

04/08/2024

Our guides have got your back when you're hiking the Cape to Cape Track! 👣👍

Here's big Trev giving our hikers a helping hand leaping across Calgardup Brook on beautiful Redgate Beach on Day 5 of our 8-Day Guided End-to-End adventure!

Whatever your pace, physical abilities or level of confidence, you're in good hands with Cape to Cape Explorer Tours! Plus, most of our hiking days have half-day options if you need a breather. Happy days!

If you want to meet the rest of the team, check out https://capetocapetours.com.au/meet-the-team/

04/08/2024

Who's had a close call with a blowhole on the Cape to Cape Track? This is the fabulous Blowholes section on the final day on the Track heading towards Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse. And when the swell is up, there can be some serious geysers of salt water shooting for the heavens! 🌊

The formations are created in the limestone platforms formed where the land meets the Indian Ocean, and the action of the surf has eroded chambers within the rock to form the blowholes 👍

It's such an otherworldly terrain to walk over - but all part of the diversity of the Track, which traverses everything from white-sand beaches to amazing granite outcrops, crumbling limestone cliffs to soft forest paths. Happy hiking! 👣

03/08/2024

Check out this twining Flame Pea. What a ripper!! 😍😍

The Flame Pea is such a stunner, lighting up the Cape to Cape Track like a Christmas tree during late winter and spring as it creeps over the forest floor and up any shrub or tree nearby.

Did you know the pea family of flowers are experts are growing in South-West WA's ancient and impoverished soils, grabbing nitrogen out of the air and fixing it into the soil so it's available for the plant to absorb. Now that's some incredible evolution on display right there!

Find out more about the Track and it's flora and fauna atcapetocapetours.com.au/cape-to-cape-track/

02/08/2024

This could be you taking in the epic views on the Cape to Cape Track! We've still got juts a handful of vacancies in 2024 for our self-guided adventures, so get in quick while spots last! 👣

Our self-guided adventures range from 3 to 7 days, with a variety of walking distances to suit every fitness level! Whichever option you choose, you'll be blown away by the natural wonderland that is the Cape to Cape Track 🌿

Oh, and did we mention spring is wildflower season, when the Track erupts in a kaleidoscope of colour and fragrance??

Or choose autumn, when sunny skies and mild weather make for magic hiking! Either way, we'll see you on the Track soon 🦋

31/07/2024

Check out this beauty!! It's a carpet python spotted on the Cape to Cape Track 🐍😀

These reptiles aren't venomous so there's nothing to worry about when you're lucky enough to spot one (although, like with all wildlife, we still keep a safe distance!)

Pythons have an incredible, mottled patterning and can sometimes be seen sunning themselves near the Track!

This is just one of so many great wildlife shots that have been snapped on the Track but our guide Rusty, who has an affinity with the fauna of our region - and capturing it on camera 👍

31/07/2024

Meet our bus driver extraordinaire, Lester George - he knows the our local roads like the back of his hand 👍👍😀

Born and raised in Margaret River with two children, Lester’s managed a local watering hole, a dairy and the shire’s road construction team. He became a taxi driver in 1990 and owned and managed Margaret River Taxis with six vehicles and more than a dozen drivers.

When he sold the business, he signed up with Cape to Cape Explorer Tours. And his extensive knowledge of local people, places, happenings and history is an invaluable addition to the team.

When he’s not ferrying hikers along the Cape to Cape Track, Lester is racing cars at the local speedway or volunteering with the local bushfire brigade (in fact, he’s a life member of both!). Love ya work Lester!

Meet the rest of the team at www.capetocapetours.com.au/meet-the-team/

30/07/2024

Stoked to be hiking the Cape to Cape Track! Day 5 of our guided end-to-end adventure is a ripper... with an incredible diversity of terrain and some amazing diversity of flora and geology 🌿👣🦎

This is a shady spot at Bob's Hollow Grotto before the hike up to the top of Contos Cliffs, and onwards to the cool canopy under the treetops in Boranup.

Check out the fill itinerary and more info on our 8-day guided end-to-end hike at https://capetocapetours.com.au/guided/

28/07/2024

Have you heard about our Fast n Furious option for the Cape to Cape Track? It's a white-knuckle ride, hiking the entire 132km Track in 5 days instead of the usual 7.

On this five-day express down Western Australia’s premier coastal long distance hike, you'll traverse variable terrain and awe-inspiring beauty while challenging your mind and fitness with this accelerated adventure!

But it's not all hard work. You'll also enjoy mouth-watering catering from Margaret River and return daily to your comfortable beachside accommodation on this self-guided tour.

Or, walk the Track at a milder pace on our 6 or 7 day self-guided end-to-end tours, with shorter daily hikes and more time to take in the serenity! For more info see www.capetocapetours.com.au/self-guided/

28/07/2024

We've got an all-star cast of guides here at Cape to Cape Explorer Tours, including Breezy pictured here who relishes days out exploring the Cape to Cape Track with our hikers.

Born and raised in Sydney, Bree spent her youth living a free-spirited lifestyle up and down Australia’s east coast. She trained and worked as a painter and decorator, but her passion was the outdoors, camping in wild places and exploring the coast.

Later, Bree and her husband moved west to raise three gorgeous kids, first living in Fremantle and finally building their dream home in Margaret River. Bree’s passion is connecting people to the earth through teaching and sharing yoga, meditation and sound healing.

But a hike on the Cape to Cape Track “just blew my mind”, and led her to enlist as guide and driver with Cape to Cape Explorer Tours. “I just love walking on country and connecting people to the land,” says Bree. “It’s so much fun and such a privilege.”

Meet the rest of the team at www.capetocapetours.com.au/meet-the-team/

26/07/2024

Did you know Cape to Cape Explorer Tours has Ecotourism Certification? It's awarded by after a rigorous process that puts sustainability under the microscope 🦎🌿

Incorporating conscious, sustainable habits into our everyday lives is more important than ever. And this doesn’t have to stop when you are on holiday.

Eco Certification makes it easy for travellers to find high-quality nature-based experiences. They’re run by genuine tourism operators who are truly committed to sustainable practices. Ultimately, it makes your holiday even more rewarding! 🌈🍄

26/07/2024

Want a luxury 3-day taste of the Cape to Cape Track? 🌿🦎

Join us for our 3 Day Smiths Spectacular. It's a three-day, self-guided coastal experience, hiking the very best of the Cape to Cape Track, staying in breathtaking coastal accommodation with ocean views, and enjoying gourmet catering from world renowned Lamont’s Restaurant along with some of Margaret River’s very best local producers. Go on, treat yourself! 😃👍

See https://capetocapetours.com.au/self-guided/

25/07/2024

On the chain gang! Who remembers the hike into Bob's Hollow, scrambling down this limestone scarp to reach the beautiful little bay below? 👍

We tackle this section of the Cape to Cape Track on Day 5 of our 8-day guided end-to-end adventure. It's a long day's hiking covering 21km, but oh what a day - from Prevelly and the Boodjidup Valley, Redgate Beach, Bob's Hollow, then the stunning Contos Cliffs and finally plunging into the mysterious Boranup Forest, with a visit to a cave on the way home. Hiking done well!! 👣

See www.capetocapetours.com.au/guided/

24/07/2024

On top of the world on the Cape to Cape Track! Check out this bird's eye view of the Track, taken amidst ancient granite and rare flora right on the coast 🌈

It’s a view we never see while hiking the epic 124km coastal trail. But the aerial scene - captured by drone - turns the landscape into an intricate web of patterns and colours 🔥

This images was captured by a group of family and friends from Townsville, Queensland who joined us on the Track. Nicole Green organised the trip, opting for Cape to Cape Explorer Tours’ self-guided 4-Day Highlights experience.

Find out more at www.capetocapetours.com.au/self-guided/ and we'll see you on the Track soon! 😃

23/07/2024

An epic fauna-spotting day on the Cape to Cape Track by our guide Colin who was leading a group of excited school kids hiking in the Margaret River region.

“First we spotted a python (third photo) cruising through the coastal heath,” says Col.

“Then later in the morning we spotted this beautiful echidna (first photo) which waddled across the track in front of us and then bunkered down with his spines up.

“Then I literally took two more steps and a bardic (the snake in the second photo) crossed the track as well. What a day!”

22/07/2024

We're organising some epic adventures for students coming up in the next few months 🐍👣

Our programs are set on the iconic Cape to Cape Track in the South-West of Western Australia. It’s a 132km hiking trail that takes your students into a world with 50,000 years of indigenous culture 🔥🔥

Our adventures also empower young people to boldly step into challenge, develop relationships, expand their horizons and promote vitality and resilience 👍

For more info see www.capetocapetours.com.au/schools-and-youth/

21/07/2024

It might feel like the depths of winter now, but spring is just around the corner and our very first guided end-to-end adventure on the Cape to Cape Track kicks off from August 31! 👣😍🌈

And if you join us, this could be you perched atop Wilyabrup Cliffs on Day 3 of our 8-day fully-guided hiking adventure. Spring is an epic time for hiking the Track, with whales frolicking off the coast and a sea of orchids and wildflowers starting to bloom.

For all the details check out https://capetocapetours.com.au/guided/

And we'll see you on the Track soon!

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We’re hiring! Great people wanted to join our catering team, serving up fresh, local and delicious fare to our hungry hikers ⭐️👍✅ Check out the video for all the info and application details or see https://westernaustralia.jobs/job/margaret-river-wa-australia-casual-seasonal-kitchen-hand/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR07qXtR-WBP6WgIVBmdLFPnklUWutRfUB8kOs7ldznpGpYIaxSFqw2-IZQ_aem_XbZbR5m6l_PbBzbgOlQ_PA

A close encounter with our wonderful local endemic white-tailed black cockatoos! 🤩👍 Our guide Bree was hiking the track with a group who were thrilled to see these cockies searching for food in this dead grass tree trunk. Turn up the volume to hear the birds’ exuberant calls! Listed as threatened, our cockatoos are such an intelligent, beautiful and treasured native species - we love spotting them and spending time with them ❤️

Check out our amazing guide Bree “frothing” on the best job in the world - leading guided hikes on the Margaret River region’s Cape to Cape Track!! 👍🔥🌳🦎🐬👣 Love your work Breezy, sharing your wonderful warmth, immense knowledge and connection with country with the hikers who join us on the Cape to Cape! Find out more about Bree and all of our team at www.capetocapetours.com.au/meet-the-team/ Thanks to Tourism Western Australia for this great vid 👍

Look at this cutie!! He’s a quenda, or southern brown bandicoot. What a beauty! 🤩 This little guy was filmed at Moses Rock as our guided group stopped for a breather on Day 3 of our 8-Day Guided end to end adventure on the Cape to Cape Track 👣 Quendas are mainly nocturnal, digging and scouring the ground for tubers, roots, fungi and insects. What a lucky sighting!

MIND BLOW ALERT! Check out this Orange Spider-hunting Wasp. These incredible wasps catch and paralyse spiders much bigger and heavier than themselves 🦟🕷️🐝 The female will then drag the spider across the ground (because it can’t fly with such a heavy load) to its burrow in the sand where it will lay a single egg inside the arachnid. When the larvae hatches, it eats the spider from the inside out - leaving the vital organs till last so the spider remains alive as long as possible and the flesh doesn’t go rancid!! Then it bursts out of the spider’s carcass, just like a scene with Sigourney Weaver in the classic movie Alien. Wow, ain’t nature mind blowing! When you walk the Cape to Cape with our expert guides, you’ll hear all kinds of amazing yarns like this one 👍

A gorgeous sighting of our stunning white-tailed black cockatoos near Contos Cliffs while hiking the Cape to Cape Track ❤️✅🤩👣 Our ace guide Cath was stoked after this close encounter, coming around a corner of the track to find herself face to face with a pair of birds feeding on the coastal heath. These large, intelligent birds are endangered in WA, but we are so blessed the Margaret River region is a stronghold for these beautiful birds.

Wait for it! Check out this awesome emu family spotted at Contos by our guide Elise during a private guided hike on the Cape to Cape Track recently 🤩✅🍃 “Earlier in the day we saw baby emu tracks and searched to no avail,” says Elise. “I explained that emus can be elusive - if you try and look for them you won’t find them, but when you’re not looking for them they’ll appear. And sure enough, as we sat down for lunch at Contos they strolled through camp.” 👏👏

Fab views, awesome fauna and wonderful wildflowers spotted on Margaret River’s Cape to Cape today! 👣🦅🌳✅🤩😍🔥

A majestic sight in the skies above the Cape to Cape Track! This impressive bird of prey is a square-tailed kite 🦅😍 We often see these beautiful birds while hiking - they’re on the lookout for small birds and reptiles to feed on. Find out more about the fauna and flora of the Cape to Cape Track at https://capetocapetours.com.au/cape-to-cape-track/

What a beauty! Check out this stunning carpet python our guide Trev spotted hiking the Cape to Cape Track near Moses Rock 😍😍🐍🐍 You can hear the birds in the coastal heath sounding the alarm! To learn more about the flora and fauna on the Cape to Cape Track, see https://capetocapetours.com.au/cape-to-cape-track/

Loving the bonanza of wildlife - including these majestic white-tailed black cockatoos - that call SurfPoint Resort home ❤️💚🐾🌳 Surfpoint is our dedicated accommodation hub for hikers on the Cape to Cape Track… A home away from home run by the lovely Nic and Nick, who take care of your every need 🤩🤩 #capetocapetrack #margaretriverregion #hikingadventures

Had to share a few highlight moments from last night’s Margaret River Business Network annual gala awards night!! You can tell the crew are pretty chuffed with being named the Margaret River region Business of the Year plus taking out gold in the Tourism Excellence, Environmental Excellence and Robust & Remarkable categories 🎉🙏🤩 @surfpointresort #wabnawards #wabn #margaretriverregion #capetocapetrack

Meet Steve - he’s a quenda or native bandicoot that we often encounter near Moses Rocks on Day 3 of our 8 Day Guided End-to-End adventure on the Cape to Cape Track 🐾🤩👍🐾 Such a cutie!

Crossing Wilyabrup Brook on Day 3 of our 8 Day Guided End-to-End adventure on the Cape to Cape Track 👣💪✅ During spring the rivers and creeks of the Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park are flowing, so there’s plenty of opportunities to get the shoes off for an invigorating creek crossing! See https://capetocapetours.com.au/guided/

Glorious spring days hiking the #capetocapetrack in the beautiful #margaretriverregion ahhh bliss 😍🌈✅

Walking in wildflowers and loving the start of spring on the #capetocapetrack in the #margaretriverregion 🤩🌈🌳✅

There’s still time to join the dream team! We’re hiring - check out the video for all the details 👍🤩✅🔥

We’re hiring! Check out the video for all the details to join the Cape to Cape Explorer Tours family 👍🤩✅🔥

We love the many encounters with stunning wildlife on the Cape to Cape Track 🐸🐞🌏🐝 This little cutie is a legless lizard, and you can ID them thanks to the distinctive vertical pattern of stripes.

Crank up the sound! Sometimes our hikers are a bit pooped at the end of a big day on the Cape to Cape… And then there’s days like this when they are psyched and just have to burst into jubilant song!! 🎵 🎶🤩🤩

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Our Story

Cape to Cape Explorer Tours is an award winning, Margaret River company that specialises in providing memorable experiences on Western Australia’s premier coastal long distance hike, the Cape to Cape Track.

Cape to Cape Explorer Tours is an environmentally responsible and conscientious operator: we have hiked, surfed, fished, and foraged in this area all of our lives. Nobody knows the Cape to Cape like we do!

Cape to Cape Explorer Tours supports the Track and our community. Our guides and staff all live in the area, are professionally trained and have an intimate knowledge of the Track and the Margaret River region, not to mention a passion for walking and people.

The Cape to Cape Track stretches 135km between the lighthouses at Cape Naturaliste in the north and at Cape Leeuwin in the south – the southern lighthouse stands uniquely above two oceans, where the Indian meets the Southern Ocean.