Pemberton Tramway - built 1929-33 |
Pemberton Railway Station |
Old locomotive |
Our tram |
Pete ready for the journey |
The route travelled through karri, jarrah and marri forests |
Over some very old bridges |
We stop at Cascades |
It's summer - the water is low |
Lefroy Brook |
The driver has a great view |
Through the forest |
Another old bridge |
Jarrah Jack's Brewery |
Lovely rolling hills and red earth |
Vineyards all around |
Lunch, a local wine and a beer tasting paddle |
Spotted this colourful tree in Pemberton |
Gloucester Tree - a bushfire lookout tree |
You can climb up this 53m karri tree |
Pegs are hammered into the tree to act as a ladder... |
...and a cabin built on top...built 1937-52 |
Pete climbing up |
Pete and Jackie on the pegs |
Pete looking down |
Pete at the top |
View from the lookout |
Little hatch to get into the cabin |
Forest all around |
The pegs wobble a little as you step on them |
Jackie at the bottom of the tree (her ankle has still not recovered fully from Mexico) |
Jackie did go higher than this but Pete refused to take a photo |
More people climbing... |
...up and up they go |
On our drive west |
Lookout near Walpole |
Walpole-Nornalup NP |
Valley of the Giants... |
...a treetop walk that takes you up... |
...into the canopy... |
...of beautiful tingle trees |
Looking up as we climb higher |
Pete on the walkway |
The walkway helps protect the sensitive tingle tree roots |
Looking down - it's hard to get a photo of the entire tree, they are so tall |
The walkway rises further... |
...until we're at the treetops |
We get great views |
The highest level is at 40m |
Grandma Tingle - can you see her face? |
Many tingle trees have been burnt inside by bushfire but they will survive... |
...and continue to grow, they also house tiny southern forest bats, maximum body length of 47mm |
This bulge is a burl - caused by insect, mite, bacterial or fungal attack - the tree forms a protective growth around the wound |
Pete walking on the Ancient Empire Boardwalk trail |
King Tingle |
Denmark River |
Australian White Ibis |
Boston Brewery - lunch and beer |
Boston Brewery - near Denmark |
Our campsite - shaded peppermint trees - heading down to the beach |
Parry Beach |
In for a swim |
First underwater photo with new camera |
Jackie back on the beach |
Waves all around |
The wind is picking up... |
...the surfers... |
...will be out on the waves soon |
Walking back to our camping spot |
Look out for snakes |
Gotta love Aussie humour |
Parry Beach - next to our campsite |
National Anzac Centre - this museum remembers the men & women (from all over Oz) who left by convoy from Albany to fight in WWI |
Australian & New Zealand troops at the Great (Cheops) Pyramid in Egypt |
Copper sculpture - Anzac Spirit... |
..."Sharing the last of the water with my old mate, he deserves a drink as much as I before the charge" |
In the 1930s Ataturk visited Australia |
Princess Royal Fortress - inside the guard house |
We laughed (sorry) at the emergency evacuation plan inside the very small guard house |
Princess Royal Fortress (1893) - huge guns to defend Albany |
Another huge gun |
Views from the top of Mt. Adelaide... |
...a great spot to help defend the city |
Ataturk Entrance to Princess Royal Harbour |
A ship coming into the harbour |
Wood chips for export |
Desert Mounted Corps Memorial - for WWI soldiers who fought at the Nek in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 |
Brig Amity (replica) - built 1816 - carried Albany's first British settlers from Sydney in 1826 |
Middleton Beach - Emu Point in the distance - where we camped |
Emu Point Beach |
Watch out for bandicoots and wee turtles on the road |
Torndirrup NP - The Gap... |
...a natural cleft in the rock, channelling surf through walls of granite |
Looking down from the walkway over the sea |
Beautiful beaches all around |
The Natural Bridge |
Cheynes Beach Historical Whaling Station - Cheynes IV whale chaser |
We explore the boat |
The harpoon used to kill the whales |
View from the whale chaser looking out to King George Sound |
The engine room |
The whales were followed using sonar equipment and when they surfaced they were chased |
The captain was also responsible for firing the harpoon |
The whale would be brought alongside (fastfish); pumped full of air; attached to a radio beacon, cut free & picked up later |
Flensing - blanket pieces of blubber are removed with the help of flensing (Norwegian word) knives |
All of the whale goes in for cooking - although the teeth are saved, as they are ivory |
The cutting area |
The bits of whale were put into these holes for cooking |
The cookers underneath the deck |
These tanks stored whale oil |
Bits that remained were dried off and used as fertiliser and animal feed |
Pygmy Blue Whale skeleton - 22m |
Humpback Whale - not a toothed whale but a baleen whale |
Baleen Plates - when the whale expels a mouthful of water, they act as a strainer, catching small fish, krill & plankton |
Sperm Whale skelton |
Whaling ended here in 1978 - the last station in Australia - the water and the beach are no longer red |
Two men enjoying a spot of fishing but the bird got there first! |