After our day of town-hopping, we headed down to Albany which is around a 3 hour drive from Margaret River in the very South of WA. To make the journey a bit more interesting we broke it up with some sights on the way down.
It was actually quite scary climbing up it. Just knowing that if you slipped or let go you would fall out the tree. My legs were shaking a bit as we climbed! The views from the top were great, you were over the rest of the trees and were exhilarated from the climb. It got a bit windy when we were up there so we had to be careful climbing back down. It was a bit nerve wracking seeing as you had to look down a lot to see where your feet were going so you were very aware of how high up you were!
The walkway also had an Ancient walk which told you about the trees and this was on ground level. Tingle trees are enormous! There are a few different types and some have massive hollows in them from forest fires. The fires don’t killed the tree just hollows them and then that hollow grows with the tree, getting bigger and bigger.
One tree was called Grandma Tingle because the knots and branches made it look like a face (like in Pocahontas)! This tree was 400 years old and was not nearly the biggest tree there!
After seeing a lot of trees we went to William Bay where there was a few pools that, in the summer, are very popular for swimming. Greens Pool and Elephant Cove are both bays that are slightly separated from the sea by rocks making the water very calm. We went on quite a windy day which made the contrast even greater as there was a rough, dark sea and then a very clear, calm bay. The beach was beautiful and there were big rocks around the bay to climb on to get a good view. We fully understood why people would come here in the summer to swim!
After that we headed to Albany which is an old whaling town along the south coast. We stayed in a nice hostel that made us pancakes for breakfast so it made it worth it just for that really! This was the most southern point on our exploration of WA.
Ha! I’m always complaining that nobody ever listens to me!Fantastic pictures- that looks like 2 people’s bay on the panorama. glad your having fun. Vv jealous. Make the most of every day! GR
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