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Published: December 10th 2007
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Where the 2 oceans Meet!
Indian (right) and Southern (left) Another early start today - 7am - eek! They like their early starts these Ozzies! Drover through the Blur forrest with its humoungous karri trees, we went up to cape Leeuwin where they is a lighthouse at the point and it's where the 2 Oceans meet! Indian Ocean (right of the lighthouse) and the Southern ocean (left of the lighthouse). Crazy!
we went to see the water wheel that provided water to the lighthouse workers and family and after a few years due to the high level of calcium it all coroded and was Kaput! oooh dear! On the way back down from the poin there was a poisonous snake in our way in the road! Needless to say we jumped out the van to get a closer look! Rex the Chinese guy was getting a bit close! He was a model snake, stayed long enough for us all to get a few snaps then slithered off in the opposite direction - walk in the park!
After we drove to the Gloucester Tree via Pemberton which is where Lou lives in Wigan - excellent!
We had a bit of lunch - DIY sarnies for us and we all
ate in the picnic area. It was so funny as there were loads of parrots! the rosella parrot is the red one and I can't remember what the green ones were called! We had bread and they started flying all over me! I can 5 on me at one point including one on my head! They were not shy! It was really good though, they were really gentle and just wanted to bread really, they were sat there on my hands munching away!!!
The main reason we were there was the Gloucester Tree which is this massive tree about 61m tall and you can climb it. The photos may explain it better than I can but the only way I can descibe it is that they have giant nails sticking out the tree which form steps in a spiral pattern up and round the tree trunk. The height is 61m, there is no ropes, harness or safety! The edge has a metal netting around the outside of it so your in a tunnel but going upwards, it's funny when you pass people going up though, it's a tight squeeze, you have to cross by each other on this flimsy
ladder at 50m high! hilariuos! Only 6 people can go up the tree at one time so we had to keep counting! It was hard work, not used those muscles in a while but welll worth the climb! The view waas fabulous and it felt like a great acheivement! woo hoo Im the queen of the world! ha ha! You had to concentrate quite a lot though and hold on tight with your arms in case you lost your footing! All was well though, I had no problems! Who needs a gym and the stair master with one of those anyway! My memory card decided to get full when i was at the top though! How rude is that! No way was I climbing back up it again to get more photos - some old ones had to be sacrificed!
With slight jelly legs - yes it's been a while since I climber a ladder for 61m - we then went to Walpole and the Tree Top Walk. Had read about this one before we came and for some reason I wanted to go so I was quite excited! I liked the sound of walking through the tree tops
and that's what we did! It was the Valley of the Giants in Walpole. The massive trees are Tingle trees you walk through and it's ramped up and then there are wobbly bridges which you can see through underneath your feet and they run through the tree tops. Again you are only allowed a certain number of people on each bridge section at a time but it was really good! The highest point is 40m tall. Lou is scared of heights but she conquered her fear and didn;t look too pale! this is her training for the Sydney harbour bridge climb which I am making her do! ha ha! I am not a meanie no, she said she'll regret it if she doesn't so there we are - She's doing it! She even forgot her fears and managed to play photographer for a wee minute!
After we conquered the trees we went to do the Ancient Empire walk, it's a tree walk but a lot of the trees are hollow in the middle due to fungus or fire damage. There were lots of different ones, one has got a face on it - check it out it looks well
good! the Tingle trees are up to 400 years old. Reg the guide and driver challanged us to see how many heads we could fit in one gap in one fo the trees, his recored with other groups was 5 and we got 7 - the top 2 are little dark though but you can just see them! hurray! there was space for the heads but not the bodies behind!
I did not realise you could do so much with trees - it's been a very treey day and it's not over yet! I am quite impressed...more trees anyone?
We hit William Bay and the Elephant Rocks and Green Pools next and WOW. The whole bay area is super duper fantastically amazing! I had to use a different word this time! Another stunning beach - yawn yawn heard it all before but this was great and the elephant rocks made it even more spectacular, I don;t know if the photos / video will do it justice but the pools made by the rocks were soooo green! they live up to their name! I have no idea really why the rocks are called Elephant rocks - maybe because they
look like them???! we didn't have time to take a swim which was a shame as it was beautiful. After some poses and snapshots we headed for the Albany backpackers hostel which was a big but very friendly, colourful place! We had a BBQ and got a bit of cheapo wine and had a fire in the back, met some people also staying there which was good! There was a guy from Rochdale there...it's a small small world!
Am very tired typing this so sorry for any mistakes! xxx
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