Valley of the Giants

Valley of the Giants

Today we drove through Denmark and into Walpole to set up camp.  We headed back to the Wilderness discovery centre where the Western Australian's famous Valley of the Giant Tingle trees are.

Entrance to the Giant Trees

Tree Top Walk

At one of the sites on the Tree Top Walk, I'm up 40 metres from the forest floor into the tingle canopy.   This gives me great perspective of a "birds eye view".

          Car parked in the base of the Giant Tree

In early years, The Valley of the Giant trees bought tourist to the tree base and they would reverse there cars in and take photos.  Continuous traffic compacted the ground around the Giant tree. Because of the Giant tree's shallow root system, it eventually killed off this magnificent tree.  The Valley of the Giants was also saved from tree lopping in the 70's and now is Protected in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park.

Standing at the base

Circular Pool and Franklin River system

The name circular pool derives not from the shape of the two pools, but by the currents which flow in circles, creating moving circular patterns with the foam they create.

I miss all my Kindy friends!  Bye for now.