Southern Forests

From Hyden we went back down the coast to Albany. Got bogged at a free camp - interesting with the camper on the back....but managed to save ourselves!
Albany is a really quaint coastal town. The highlights were the natural bridge and the gap. These are enormous granite formations made when the bit of land that became Antarctica seperated from Australia
(Gondwana)-very impressive.
The beaches around here are of course great-most of the time we are the only ones on them.
From Albany through Denmark ( elephant rocks and greens pool - very beautiful) then headed into the Great Forests of the South West - wow these forests are breathtaking. The karri trees are up to 75m high and the Tingle trees can grow 150m high and 28m in girth and one we saw - 'grandma tingle' was 500yrs old. They are one of the 3 tallest tree species in the world. One feels insignificant when amongst them.In the Valley of the Giants( the forests) there is a tree top walk which we really loved. They have built a 45m high walkway that sits amongst the treetops and swings. It is a great perspective to be looking down at the forest floor and to be a eye level with some of the tree tops rather than looking up.


We spent the next few days exploring this area -Walpole national park and its inlets and river systems amongst the forests. The trees are so beautiful we couldn't stop looking at them.