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Giant Trees
See the Giant Karri, Marri and Tingle trees around
Pemberton and Walpole. |
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Gloucester Tree These climbing
trees were originally for fire spotting and can be 60-70
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Bicentennial Tree This was the
tallest and scariest of the climbing trees. As you
look down from the top all you see is 60 or so meters of
trunk with pegs appearing to get smaller and smaller
towards the bottom.
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Climbing tree peg This is all
you have to hold on to! |
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Looking down Gloucester tree |
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More Giant Trees Near the tree
top walk, Walpole. |
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Hollow Trees Past fires have
burnt out the inside of the Tingle tree, but the bark
remains to create the split hollow bases.
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Hollow Trees Valley of the
Giants, Walpole |
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Tree Top Walk A nice walk
along the tree tops near Walpole. |
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Tree Top Walk Also walk the
Valley of the Giants.
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The area around Pemberton, Walpole, and Denmark is probably best
known for it's tall forrests. Pemberton has the climbing
trees, Walpole has the Valley of the Giants and a tree top walk
close by. Denmark has excellent forests and beach. It's
easy to relax in the natural surroundings.
The climbing trees were originally fire spotting trees.
Large pegs are used to climb up and down. There are three
trees freely accessible for climbing, the Gloucester tree, the
Dave Evans Bicentennial tree and the Diamond tree, which is the
smallest. The Gloucester and Bicentennial tree's are 60-70
metres tall. Keep away if you don't like heights. I
would personally suggest that you don't climb the trees in
strong winds or wet conditions because there are no
harnesses and no barriers, just steel pegs holding you up.
The Bicentennial tree was a real buzz. The sheer height
and feeling of climbing circles around a huge trunk up to the
forest canopy 70 meters above is just the best! It makes
any tree climb you have done in your childhood seem totally
insignificant. These trees are probably my favourite thing
in Western Australia.
There are more giant trees and a tree top walk near Walpole.
I enjoyed the tree top walk, but it didn't have the excitement
of climbing the trees in Pemberton. The valley of the
giants is a good walk full of Tingle trees with their hollow
trunks.
There are plenty of other walks, waterfalls,
and beaches in the area worth exploring.
Peg in a climbing tree
Highlights for me were:
- The Bicentennial Tree!
- The Bicentennial Tree!
- The Bicentennial Tree!
- The little cottage where we stayed in at
Pemberton over Christmas eve and Christmas Day.
- The natural surroundings and walks.
Negatives.
- The camp site in the Walpole-Nornalup
National Park was busy, but we still got a spot That's
what you get at Christmas time. |
