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Published: October 21st 2008
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Oct 16
Love the Peppermint Eco Caravan Park!!
Booked on the BushTucker Wine tour. Small group of 11. Guide/driver was fabulous with tidbits of area history & information on the flora & fauna. Visited 4 wineries, 1 distillery, chocolate factory and cheese outlet. All great. Lunch was made up of various bush tucker and seeing that Gary & I were the furthest away we got to try a whole wichitty grub. Not bad, but better blended into a dip. The grub was dead, btw. Kangaroo meat, ham, turkey and various chutneys, dips, and sauces made out of ????
Enjoyed it all.
Oct 17
Bussleton to Cape Leeuwin to Pemberton
Cape Leeuwin is the most south westerly part of Australia and has a working lighthouse. The Tourism group there has an agreement with the government to be able to have tours, so this is the first lighthouse we’ve had a chance to go inside and up the 176 step spiral staircase. We got to walk on the outside at the top!!. This cape is also where the Indian Ocean & The Southern Ocean meet. Had late afternoon cocktails with a group at our caravan park in Pemberton. Fed birds, Western Rosellas
and one called ‘twenty-eight’ unsalted peanuts out of our hand. Very tame in respect to them landing on you & walking on you for the food, but don’t touch or away they go.
Karri Forest have some awesome big trees.
Oct 18
Pemberton to Walpole
Nice little caravan park in Pemberton. Went up to Manjimup and did a quick tour of the Forrestry Museum. The farmers market was just packing up as we arrived!!
Visited the Gloucester & Diamond Trees. These are trees that have been used (no longer) as fire lookouts. A small hut built on top of these huge trees. And the way they get up is on a spiral set of bars hammered solidly into the tree. You will be able to see it in the picture. This old guy sure wasn’t going to try to go up either one of them!!!
Lovely rolling hills and curving highway that sure would have been fun in the old Sunbeam Alpine!!
CoalMine Caravan Park. Nice. Met our ‘happy hour’ friends again. Only thing was one sarcastic comment that when the Australians say ‘see yah’ when you are leaving, they don’t really mean it!!
No worries!
Oct 19
Walpole to Denmark
Such a long, long trip. Like 56km. But we took the long way around.
First the Circular Pool. A nice little river with 2 or 3 sets of rapids/waterfalls. Not spectacular but really interesting as the water is redish from the tannin from the Karri trees. And a lot of froth caused by something called Sapino in the water.
Then to the Giant Tingle Trees. WOW, what monsters they are. And a lot of them are hollow from disease, lighting strikes, etc. Their roots are shallow so they actually are a sort of buttress holding up these huge trees.
Then to the Valley of the Giants walk. What a great idea this was. In the midst of a large Tingle Tree forest, so as not to disturb the trees, they have built a tremendous walkway that at one point is 40 metres above ground level. The walkway is a nice gentle slope up to that point, so no major exertion necessary. What a feeling to be up that high, level with some of the highest branches of the trees. Although they do get a lot higher. Hopefully a couple of the pictures will help my rather lame
explanation!!
Rivermouth Caravan Park in Denmark. Nice place, but pretty windy right now.
12655.8km to date. How many to go? LOTS, and only 4 weeks left. Leaving the last to visit friends and relatives in the Brisbane area.
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