Brewing up and sorting breakfast is always better when the sun filters through the trees and we enjoyed a relaxed start to the day, in no hurry to pack away the tent. The camper departed before us, but we caught up with it at the Tree Top Walk and discovered that the occupants were from Queensland and were taking the long way home after attending a motorbike meeting in Victoria.
We joined the free guided tour around the Valley of the Giants forest, the only place where the red, yellow and Rates tingle trees grow (a eucalypt tree).
Anne kept her eyes out for quokkas, a knee high wallaby, but all we saw were their runs through the undergrowth.
We eventually made it onto the Tree Top Walk which is an amazing feat of engineering - 600m long and 40m off the ground at its highest point. You really get a sense of the scale of the trees around you, much more so than when we were up the Gloucester Tree (although maybe the fear factor was overriding our enjoyment of the view for the latter).
Our whistle stop tour of the south coast continued as we lunched overlooking the gorgeous Ocean Beach at Denmark, deserted except for a lone surfer in the middle of the bay. We called in at another wood gallery between Denmark and Albany and were again tempted to buy, but the lack of space in the Land Rover prevented us (probably a good thing!).
We decided to stay in a caravan park in Albany rather than wild camp, which turned out to be a good call as the heavens opened when we were safely undercover cooking in the BBQ room. All very civilised, although we are roughing it compared to most at the park as we’ve haven’t gone for one of the powered sites that each have their own en-suite toilet/shower block (unlike those soft campervanners). We also know what we’re missing from the Land Rover - pet fish. Our neighbours have brought their fish along and the tank’s sitting on the picnic table next to their tent. Why did we not think of doing this? SPOT
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