Wild Parrot!

Lots of trees!

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June 22nd 2005
The Gloucester Tree was in Pemberton. It's 60ft high and has a very unsafe-feeling ladder with little to protect you if your foot happened to slip! On our way from the car, James decided to feed a nearby parrot some of my apple. It wasn't long before we were flocked with encouraged parrots, landing all over us... what a novelty! We shakily climbed the tree then took a stroll... and later s ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Walpole » Valley of the Giants

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more